Limited 180gm metallic silver colored vinyl LP pressing. 20th Anniversary edition. Blood Money is the fifteenth studio album by Tom Waits, released in 2002. The album contains songs written for the musical Woyzeck, based on the play of the same name by Georg Büchner. The theatrical adaptation was directed by Robert Wilson, with whom Waits had worked on two previous plays: The Black Rider and Alice, both of which resulted in soundtrack albums. The latter was released simultaneously in 2002 with Blood Money. The play premiered at the Betty Nansen Theatre in Copenhagen in November 2000.
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' 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.
20th Anniversary Edition pressed on 180-gram metallic silver vinyl
Tracks
1 Misery Is the River of the World
2 Everything Goes to Hell
3 Coney Island Baby
4 All the World Is Green
5 God's Away on Business
6 Another Man's Vine
7 Knife Chase [Instrumental]
8 Lullaby
9 Starving in the Belly of a Whale
10 Part You Throw Away
11 Woe
12 Calliope [Instrumental]
13 Good Man Is Hard to Find
- Genre: Rock
- Format: Vinyl
- Limited Edition, Silver Vinyl
