A major part of Tom Waits' mystique has always been his complex, intriguing persona; part Bukowski-esque barfly poet, part Kerouac-inspired hipster, part Hoagy Carmichael troubadour. Nowhere has that persona been more fully utilized than on Nighthawks At The Diner. Throughout the album Waits unfurls his colorful, charismatic, artfully amplified personality. It's like spending the evening with a lounge lizard/raconteur/beatnik standup comic who also happens to compose strikingly beautiful tunes that could have come from the Great American Songbook if not for their lyrical quirkiness.

Track Listing
1. Opening Intro
2. Emotional Weather Report
3. Intro to On A Foggy Night
4. On A Foggy Night
5. Intro to Eggs And Sausage
6. Eggs And Sausage [In A Cadillac with Susan Michelson]
7. Intro to Better off Without a Wife
8. Better Off Without A Wife
9. Nighthawk Postcards [from Easy Street]
10. Intro to Warm Beer and Cold Women
11. Warm Beer And Cold Women
12. Intro to Putnam County
13. Putnam County
14. Spare Parts I [A Nocturnal Emission]
15. Nobody
16. Intro to Big Joe and Phantom 309
17. Big Joe And Phantom 309
18. Spare Parts II and Closing