>>Don't know if you consider it Rock and Roll, but here's a great love song for your collection:
>>Tom Waits - Ruby's Arms.
>>It's on his "Heartattack and Vine" album. Oh, wait. There's another good on on that album -"Saving all my love for you".
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>>The reason I put it here is because I keep finding his albums in the Rock section of the music stores.
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>I don't know where else they would put his albums but know what you mean. Lucinda Williams, Ry Cooder, and Ricki Lee Jones are a few others who are not readily categorizable.
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>Do you realize that in about 5 years teenagers won't even know what you're talking about if you say "music store"? Much less "record store."

Yeah. Showing my age. I shouldn't even be using the work 'album' any more I guess.

I suppose I still think of Lucinda Williams as folk and country, even though I know better, and Ry Cooder's name still shouts Jazz for me. I know he played on a huge number of rock albums in the 60s and 70s with every group that mattered, but individually, for whatever reason, I still think of him as a jazz man.

Probably the same with Waits. In my mind he is a jazz player. I realise he's a lot more than that, but that's how he strikes me.

It's probably a sensibility thing. It has less to do with what they do than how they come across for me when they do what they do.

Jones? Well, that's a toughie. With her relation to Waits and Weiss, and her sort of bluegrass background... I don't have any idea where I'd slot her in. Maybe the stores need a new section; "Other".