Tom Waits - Blood Money Artist_SOAK The week of album release

The week of album release marks his second anniversary of getting the all-clear

The change of venue—from Calexico’s home base of Tucson

Twenty-nine of the album's thirty-one tracks were recorded in J Dilla's hospital room

"F**kin' Problems" featuring Hip Hop elites Drake

psychedelic rock of the 1960s and ‘70s

Tom Waits - Blood Money Artist_SOAK The week of album releaseBlood 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's 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