Recorded in front of a live audience at the Record Plant recording studio in Los Angeles in 1975, Nighthawks at the Diner debuts some of Waits’ greatest classics like 'Warm Beer, Cold Women' and 'Eggs and Sausage' with a crack Jazz ensemble backing him up and some of the greatest stage patter ever committed to record.

Nighthawks at the Diner was an indication of what a true and unique talent Waits was… totally unique in his time… falling between the cracks of traditions singing and traditional theater, Waits does a mixture of the two things. What Waits does is create a theater of the mind, a cabaret lounge with a much more surreal take on those traditions.

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  • 1. (Opening Intro)
  • 2. Emotional Weather Report
  • 3. (Intro)
  • 4. On a Foggy Night
  • 5. (Intro)
  • 6. Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac With Susan Michelson)
  • 7. (Intro)
  • 8. Better Off Without a Wife
  • 9. Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)

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  • 1. (Intro)
  • 2. Warm Beer and Cold Women
  • 3. (Intro)
  • 4. Putnam County
  • 5. Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission)
  • 6. Nobody
  • 7. (Intro)
  • 8. Big Joe and Phantom 309
  • 9. Spare Parts Ii and Closing