Tom Waits
The Black Rider
Label:  Island 
Date:  11/2/1993
Length:  0:00
Format:  CD
Genre:  Rock; Blues
  Category:  blues
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Lucky Day Overture    
      2.  
      		 The Black Rider    
      3.  
      		 November    
      4.  
      		 Just The Right Bullets    
      5.  
      		 Black Box Theme    
      6.  
      		 'T' Ain't No Sin    
      7.  
      		 Flash Pan Hunter/Intro    
      8.  
      		 That's The Way    
      9.  
      		 The Briar And The Rose    
      10.  
      		 Russian Dance    
      11.  
      		 Gospel Train/Orchestra    
      12.  
      		 I'll Shoot The Moon    
      13.  
      		 Flash Pan Hunter    
      14.  
      		 Crossroads    
      15.  
      		 Gospel Train    
      16.  
      		 Interlude    
      17.  
      		 Oily Night    
      18.  
      		 Lucky Day    
      19.  
      		 The Last Rose Of Summer    
      20.  
      		 Carnival    
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      This album contains songs Tom Waits wrote and performed for the stage production of The Black Rider directed by Robert Wilson and written by William Burroughs.

      The Black Rider tells an updated version of a 19th century story of a clerk who makes a Faustian contract with the Devil, accepting magic bullets to win the hand of his beloved in a shooting contest. Wilson's vivid images paid homage to German expressionism, Waits performed a shotgun marriage between Tin Pan Alley and burlesque horror music, while Burroughs' politically acute librettos gave unique insight into the mind of a character whose actions lead to tragic consequences.

      Performance of the play was done by The Talia Theatre Of Hamburg.
      Album recorded at Prairie Sun Recording Studios, Cotati, California and Music Factory, Hamburg, Germany.