Blood Money (Tom Waits album)
Songs from Waits and Brennan's opera score for Woyzeck.
The album was recorded in a Sonoma shack where a 57-whistle pneumatic calliope could be heard for five miles.[1]
Quick Facts
- Artist
- Tom Waits
- Released
- 7 May 2002
- Genre
- Jazz; cabaret
- Length
- 42:11
- Label
- Anti
- Producer
- Kathleen Brennan; Tom Waits
Facts from the source article.
Making and release
Waits explained he changed the title from Woyzeck because he did not think anyone would know who Woyzeck is.[2][1] The album was recorded in the same sessions as Alice, sharing the same musicians and much the same instrumentation.[3][4] Both albums were released simultaneously on May 9, 2002 on Waits' label Anti.[1] The score is the same as Wilson's play, but Waits stated "I just changed the title"[2]
The songs on Blood Money debuted during the year 2000 within Wilson's Woyzeck staging, which had its first performance at the Betty Nansen Theatre in Copenhagen during November 2000.[2][4] Georg Büchner's play served as the foundation for Wilson's opera, and that same play had previously inspired Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck.[2]
What the cited sources add
Costa described "Misery Is the River of the World" as featuring marimba, bass clarinet, calliope wheezes, and percussion from an Indonesian pod.[3][4] Christgau observed that "Lullaby" ventures into new territory with its quiet lyrics, and "Another Man's Vine" achieves a tragic quality by rejecting contempt.[5][6]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Misery Is the River of the World | 4:25 |
| 2 | Everything Goes to Hell | 3:45 |
| 3 | Coney Island Baby | 4:02 |
| 4 | All the World Is Green | 4:36 |
| 5 | God's Away on Business | 2:59 |
| 6 | Another Man's Vine | 2:28 |
| 7 | Knife Chase | 2:26 |
| 8 | Lullaby | 2:09 |
| 9 | Starving in the Belly of a Whale | 3:41 |
| 10 | The Part You Throw Away | 4:22 |
| 11 | Woe | 1:20 |
| 12 | Calliope | 1:59 |
| 13 | A Good Man Is Hard to Find | 3:57 |
Track listing from the source article.
References
- Cohen, "Blood on the Looking Glass", Chico News and Review, May 7, 2002. facts only, no text reused. tomwaitslibrary.info
- Wikipedia, "Blood Money (Tom Waits album)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Cohen, "Blood on the Looking Glass", Chico News and Review, May 7, 2002 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Blood Money (Tom Waits album)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Costa, "We're all mad here", The Guardian, May 2, 2002 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Costa, "We're all mad here", The Guardian, May 2, 2002. facts only, no text reused. theguardian.com
- Wikipedia, "Blood Money (Tom Waits album)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Christgau, "Effective but Defective", The Village Voice, July 9, 2002 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Christgau, "Effective but Defective", The Village Voice, July 9, 2002. facts only, no text reused. robertchristgau.com
Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Blood Money (Tom Waits album) (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.
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