{"product_id":"tom-waits-blood-money","title":"Tom Waits - Blood Money","description":"\u003cp\u003eTom Waits wrote Blood Money for the stage, and this remastered pressing shows the songs never needed a theatre to draw blood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReleased in 2002 alongside its twin, Alice, the album gathers songs Waits and Kathleen Brennan wrote for Robert Wilson's staging of Woyzeck, Georg Büchner's unfinished play about a soldier driven to murder. Taken off the stage, they become a self-contained portrait of love, jealousy and violence, sung by a man who sounds like he has seen it all up close.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe band is a gloriously odd one: marimba, calliope, pump organ, bass clarinet, cello and creaking percussion, recorded with a warmth that makes the menace feel almost cosy. \"Misery Is the River of the World\" opens the record like a carnival barker reading out a death notice, while \"God's Away on Business\" growls about a world left to crooks, with Stewart Copeland pounding the drums.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the knife goes in gently. \"All the World Is Green\" is one of the loveliest ballads in his songbook, a woozy waltz of regret, and \"The Part You Throw Away\" lingers like smoke in an empty bar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe remastering gives those bruised textures room to breathe, which suits a record so concerned with what people do in the dark. For Waits devotees, it sits near the top of his later work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67761824071970,"sku":"045778662913","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1020\/2080\/8994\/files\/Tom_Waits-Blood_Money.jpg?v=1794309749","url":"https:\/\/soulfulvinyl.com\/products\/tom-waits-blood-money","provider":"Soulful Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}