Packaging
Closing Time's art was designed by Cal Schenkel. Schenkel's idea for the front cover art who was inspired by "Waits' own idea of how the album should sound." It depicts Waits leaning against a bar-room piano which is furnished with a shot of rye, a bottle of beer, cigarettes, an ashtray and a small candle with a blue pool table lamp above Waits' head. The back cover art is minimal and only features a photograph of Waits staring directly into the camera lens, reputedly taken after one of Waits' performance at The Troubadour. Both photographs were taken by Ed Caraeff.
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