Closing Time

Tom Waits, “Closing Time” (Elektra, 1973)
His debut, and the most vocally/musically “normal” work he’d ever do, but the lonely late-night weariness of this couldn’t be anyone else, and these are some of his straight-out best tunes, in a melancholy acoustic guitar/piano mode.
Try 2, 4,6
4/19/13