Blood Money by Tom Waits (CD, Jan-2002, ADA)

Album Features
UPC:	045778662968
Artist:	Tom Waits
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2002
Record Label:	ADA
Genre:	Experimental Rock, Rock & Pop

Track Listing
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
8. Lullaby
9. Starving in the Belly of the Whale
10. Part You Throw Away, The
11. Woe
12. Calliope
13. A Good Man Is Hard to Find, A

Details
Contributing Artists:	Stewart Copeland, Charlie Musselwhite
Producer:	Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan
Distributor:	Alternative Dis. Alliance
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Contains an untitled hidden track following "A Good Man Is Hard To Find".Personnel includes: Tom Waits (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, piano, organ, calliope, chamberlain); Larry Taylor (acoustic & electric guitars, bass); Joe Gore (electric guitar); Dawn Harms (violin); Matt Brubeck (cello, bass); Colin Stetson (clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone); Don Plonsey (clarinet); Bebe Risenfors (bass clarinet, accordion, saxophone); Charlie Musselwhite (harmonica); Nik Phelps (trumpet, tuba); Ara Anderson (trumpet); Gino Robair (marimba, bongos, timpani, gong, bells); Andrew Borger (marimba); Stewart Copeland (drums, log drums); Casy Waits, Bent Clausen (drums).Engineers include: Oz Fritz, Jacquire King, Jeff Sloan.Recorded at In The Pocket Studios, Forestville, California.Personnel: Tom Waits (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, toy piano, pump organ, calliope, chamberlin); Myles Boisen (guitar); Larry Taylor (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Joe Gore (electric guitar); Dawn Harms (violin); Matthew Brubeck (cello); Charlie Musselwhite (harmonica); Bebe Risenfors (accordion); Colin Stetson (clarinet, bass clarinet, saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, baritone horn); Dan Plonsey (clarinet); Nick Phelps (trumpet, tenor tuba); Ara Anderson (trumpet); Bent Clausen (marimba, bass drum); Gino Robair (marimba, bongos, timpani, bells, gong); Andrew Borger (marimba); Stewart Copeland (drums, log drum); Casey Waits (drums).Audio Mixers: Oz Fritz; S. "Husky" Höskulds.Recording information: In The Pocket, Forestville, CA.Unknown Contributor Roles: Heather Fremling; Bent Clausen; Mule Patterson.Like the simultaneously released ALICE, BLOOD MONEY features songs written for a Robert Wilson play. That's pretty much where the similarity ends; unlike ALICE's moody balladry, BLOOD MONEY is full of crazed, rhythmic pieces of sonic barbed-wire. The lyrics portray the main character of Wilson's WOYZECK, a man filled with madness and rage. The combination of junkyard percussion, near-psychotic vocals, and lounge-band-from-hell tones provides the perfect complement. The outlook is an unremittingly dark one, eventually bypassing existentialism ("God's Away on Business") in favor of outright misanthropy (the aptly titled "Misery is the River of the World"). The brief, Raymond Scott-like instrumental "Knife Chase" is a madcap interlude that brings the glory days of SWORDFISHTROMBONES to mind. Despite the gusto with which Waits throws himself into all this craziness, a couple of sadly romantic ballads provide a brief respite from the mayhem and make the rest of BLOOD MONEY feel all the more hard-hitting in contrast.

Editorial Reviews
7 out of 10 - ...A cacophonous, fearsome and shadowy delight...
NME

...Makes for an extravagant headphone experience if you're in the right frame of mind....[It's] brutal, nihilistic, dark and visceral...with moments of tender, almost unbearable loveliness...
Mojo

Ranked #18 in Mojo's Best Albums of 2002
Mojo

...A subdued LSD hootenanny...
CMJ (20020520)

...It all sounds like familair Waits territory, but the earth here is scorched, the characters more distressed, the tone more funereal...
Magnet (20020601)

8 out of 10 - ...BLOOD MONEY works perfectly....[its] biggest strength is in its lyrics, which are rich with symbolism...
Alternative Press (20020701)

Ranked #11 in Uncut's 100 Best Albums of the Year
Uncut (20030101)

4 out of 5 stars - ...A powerful and almost gleeful celebration of the horrors of the world...[Wait's] tunes and rhythms are at their jauntiest...
Q (20020501)

7 out of 10 - ...From the fantastically sinister mock-tango instrumental...to the hilarious whiskey-bar soundtrack...this album has an edge and forward motion...
Spin (20020601)

3.5 out of 5 stars - ...[Waits'] throat is...pure theater, a weapon of pictorial emphasis and raw honesty....BLOOD MONEY is especially grim, a bitter suite about greed and moral bankruptcy...
Rolling Stone (20020523)