Waits, Tom: Blood Money

Title: Blood Money
Artist: Waits, Tom
Label: Anti
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 045778662913
Genre: Rock

Blood Money uses the same template and players as Alice (released at the same time) 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.

Tracks:
1.1 Misery Is the River of the World
1.2 Everything Goes to Hell
1.3 Coney Island Baby
1.4 All the World Is Green
1.5 God's Away on Business
1.6 Another Man's Vine
1.7 Knife Chase [Instrumental]
1.8 Lullaby
1.9 Starving in the Belly of a Whale
1.10 Part You Throw Away
1.11 Woe
1.12 Calliope [Instrumental]
1.13 Good Man Is Hard to Find