Waits, Tom: Blue Valentine (Vinyl LP)Remastered and reissued on Anti. Blue Valentine (1978) is a big departure from earlier Waits albums. Trading the piano for the guitar, Waits is getting rawer and bluesier and the title track is a great example of this. Waits is in transition here, so you also get a stunning orchestrated rendition of Gershwins 'Somewhere', and the beautiful piano ballad, 'Kentucky Ave.', but you also get the juke joint swagger of 'Romeo Is Bleeding' and 'Whistlin Past