May 27

May 27 Tom Waits : Blood Money

There is really no right or wrong way to start listening to Tom Waits....though there is a post somewhere that supposedly has the found the perfect way to navigate through Tom Waits' impressive catalogue....( Beware of the click baits is my answer to those kind of posts). My thing I don't quite care how you start listening to the man for God's sake just do it, you will not be disappointed. ..

This is the album that started my ever growing love story with his music.

I worked at Virgin Megastore In San Francisco at the time and one of my coworkers told me" You love Nick Cave, ever heard of Tom Waits? I think you'd dig him"....and oh man was he right!

Back then we had access to " The Demo Room" where every Monday each employee had access to this office filled with new demos, promotional Cd's and LPs, Random merch and stuff and luckily for me the promo CD of this was there so I took it home...

I was hooked from the first note he sang...that raspy deep voice, that seemingly bourbon filled swagger, it was nothing I heard before...there's been nothing like it ever since.

Theatrical, oversized and filled with underlying razor sharp sarcasm accompanied by beautiful melodies. This is the best description I could come up with, elaborating deeper would just water down the album in a way, i truly believe this is one of those album you must listen to all the way through and without any sneak peeks.

I can however give you a couple of background notes to this album:

Blood Money was released alongside another album "Alice" in 2002 Blood Money is the 13th studio album released by Tom Waits, and it contains songs written for the musical score of the remake of the play " Woyzeck" written in 1837 which narrates the story of a German soldier's descend into madness at the cause of medical experiments lead by the military.

..Happy Listening..

Track Listing:

(All songs written by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan)