TOM WAITS Foreign Affairs 1977 1st PRESS (1/1) Asylum 7E-1117 NM/EX+ LP w/INNER

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TOM WAITS
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
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ASYLUM Records 7E-1117
Original 1977 issue • Stereo LP
Original LYRICS / PHOTO Inner Sleeve included
FIRST PRESSING (1-1 / 1-1 Matrix)
NO Bar Code

VINYL is EX+/NM
Full gloss vinyl is NM side one - pristine. Side two is EX+ with a few extremely faint hairlines that are inaudible. Labels are immaculate both sides.
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COVER is VG+
Crisp, clean cover shows mild shelf rub and promo notch, u.r. edge. Lightly bumped (still sharp) l.r. corner-tip and 2 very soft edge creases at spine. Straight edges and sharp corners all around. No writing, soil or other marks. Seams and spine are 100% intact with no splits.
*PLEASE NOTE Brown tinge on l.r. corner of front cover photo is GLARE from my PHOTO LIGHTING ONLY
NOT actually on the cover itself

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MINT(SEALED) / NM / EX(VG++) / VG+ / VG

RICKIE LEE JONES (Tom's girlfriend) on Front Cover • PRC 1st PRESS
PRC printed on labels below catalog number
FIRST PRESSING
MATRIX NUMBERS:
?Side One: 7E 1117 A-3 REPRC-1-1
?Side Two: 7E 1117 B-3 REPRC-1-1
"PRC"  also etched in trail-off wax both sides.

Recorded July 28, August 2, 11, 12, 15, 1977 at Filmways/Heider Recording, Hollywood.
Mastered at Elektra Sound Recorders, Los Angeles.
Pressed by PRC Recording Company, Richmond, IN
Produced, Engineered by Bones Howe

Original Custom Lyrics / Photo INNER SLEEVE is in EXCELLENT Condition with no creases or splits.
small initials written in corner, one side in black background, barely noticeable, otherwise NM.

TRACK LISTING
SIDE ONE
Cinny's Waltz 2:16 Muriel 3:33 I Never Talk To Strangers 3:37 Medley: Jack & Neal / California, Here I Come 5:00 A Sight For Sore Eyes 4:39 SIDE TWO
Potter's Field
8:38 Burma-Shave 6:32 Barber Shop 3:52 Foreign Affair 3:46

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TOM WAITS gives one side of his fifth album, Foreign Affairs, to his more structured, bluesy ballads and the other to his jazz raps. On side one, you get his duet with Bette Midler on the singles-bar dialogue "I Never Talk to Strangers" and his take on his Beat predecessors Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassidy on "Jack & Neal".

On side two, we find the extended observations of "Potter's Field" and "Burma-shave". Waits' voice is becoming ever more gravelly, but his basic musical approach remains the same, and by this point he'd attracted a steady cult audience that increasingly fell under the spell of his verbal flights and boozy philosopher persona.

...and yes, that's Waits' then-girlfriend, the then-unknown Rickie Lee Jones, on the cover with him.


Superb Condition Original Press with outstanding Sound Quality

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Disc inside separate anti-static lined inner sleeve to protect both the original inner and the vinyl
Album kept in a protective, poly outer-sleeve
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