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Heartattack and Vine is the seventh studio album by Tom Waits, released on September 9, 1980, and his final album to be released on the Asylum label. As demonstrated by its immediate predecessors, 1978’s excellent Blue Valentine and 1977’s Foreign Affairs, he was already messing with off-kilter rhythms even in the most conventionally structured blues and jazz songs, with nastier-sounding guitars — he plays a particularly gnarly style of rhythm on this entire album.