Tom Waits returns to the fray

as a follow up to 1999’s million selling and grammy winning ‘Mule Variations’  release, Tom Waits is to release two new albums ‘Alice’ and ’Blood Money’ on 6th May 2000 in the UK.

The albums are both original as they are different from each other . the songs on ‘Alice’ are “a shoal of fish that lead the listener lead the listener into the rapture of the deep” says Waits. “’Blood Money’s songs are musical dispatches from the dark human carnival of life.”

Waits wrote and produced both records with longtime collaborator and wife Kath”My collaboration with Kathleen Brennan. “My collaboration with Kathleen is as old as our our marriage and just as strong. It gives the songs more depth and dimension. It works. We sharpen each other like knives. . She has impeccable taste, she is a great songwriter and I trust her immeasurably.Collaborating is like borrowing yen bucks, from each other. Over time we end up even.”

A diverse list of artists have cited Tom Waits as an inspiration, including Bob Dylan who named him as “one of his “secret heroes”, in which he shares the raid adoration of the ever swelling fan following.

From ‘Alice’ –

From ‘Blood Money’