Blood Money

Description

‘Blood Money’ uses the same template and players as ‘Alice’ (released at the same time in 2002) and first saw life as an opera production by Robert Wilson. It’s Waits’s treatment of Georg Buchner’s 1837 socio-political play, ‘Woyzek’, which premiered in 2000 in Copenhagen. It’s a dark morality play performed in a style where a barker from a medicine show is mysteriously transported to the weimar republic via tin pan alley. Disturbing and delirious when it’s not romantic and hilarious, the songs have a much more direct emotional appeal than the surrealistic ‘Alice’.

Tracklisting

Disc 1
1. Misery Is the River of the World – Tom Waits (4.25)
2. Everything Goes to Hell – Tom Waits (3.45)
3. Coney Island Baby – Tom Waits (4.02)
4. All the World Is Green – Tom Waits (4.36)
5. God’s Away On Business – Tom Waits (2.59)
6. Another Man’s Vine – Tom Waits (2.28)
7. Knife Chase – Tom Waits (2.26)
8. Lullaby – Tom Waits (2.09)
9. Starving in the Belly of a Whale – Tom Waits (3.41)
10. The Part You Throw Away – Tom Waits (4.22)
11. Woe – Tom Waits (1.20)
12. Calliope – Tom Waits (1.59)
13. A Good Man Is Hard to Find – Tom Waits (3.57)