Big Time (Tom Waits album)

Big Time
Live album by Tom Waits
Released	September 1988
Recorded	November 5 and November 9, 1987
Venue	The Warfield, San Francisco, and Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles
Genre	Blues rock experimental rock
Length	64:15
Label	Island
Producer	Chris Blackwell Kathleen Brennan Tom Waits
Tom Waits chronology
Franks Wild Years (1987) Big Time (1988) Night on Earth (1992)
Tom Waits live chronology
Big Time (1988) Romeo Bleeding: Live from Austin (2009)
Singles from Big Time
"16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six" Released: 1988

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Big Time is the first conventional live album by American musician Tom Waits, featuring performances from two shows on Waits' 1987 tour. The album was released less than a year later on Island Records. While Big Time was the first released recording of public concert performances by Waits, it was not strictly his first live release: his 1975 Nighthawks at the Diner was a live performance before an audience that was conducted entirely within a recording studio.