Kentucky Avenue (track)
by Tom Waits
Year: 1978
From the album Blue Valentine (track #8)
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Kentucky Avenue appears on the following album(s) by Tom Waits:
- Blue Valentine (track #8) (this album) (1978)
- The Asylum Years (track #12) (compilation) (1986)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| 04/02/2026 17:25 | Imaybeparanoid | 52,583 | 69/100 | |
| 02/05/2026 22:11 |  HoldenM | 8,601 | 91/100 | |
| 01/16/2026 17:38 | Exist-en-ciel | 100,894 | 71/100 | |
| 07/26/2025 15:20 |  AAL2014 | 36,814 | 76/100 | |
| 09/06/2024 12:21 | Scrabbler | 776 | 82/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 3% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 82.4/100, a mean average of 83.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.4/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.3.
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Along with Martha from his debut album, Kentucky avenue, is another of the most beautiful songs Tom Waits has ever written. An utterly lovely and moving account of childhood that surely cannot fail to touch any of us who hear it. A perfect song.
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