It's bluesy jazz arrangements featured bass, drums, sax and Waits on piano. The title
track, a melancholy ode to Saturday night rituals, and the tenderly romantic hymn-like
"San Diego Serenade" are enduring classics covered by an array of artists from Diana
Krall and Nancy Grifth to folk hero Eric Anderson.

The album also features "Diamonds On My Windshield", the frst of what would
become a signature for Waits', the spoken word- poetry song. Waits' delivers these
lyrics as pure beat jazz in the stylings of Kerouac, Langston Hughes and Bob
Kaufman.