Alice

Tom Waits与合作无间的妻子Kathleen Brennan共同制作，另类放克摇滚怪团Primus贝斯手Les Claypool与吉他手Larry LaLonde、曾与John Lee Hooker 合作之老牌蓝调乐手Charlie Musselwhite、曾与Arto Lindsay 及David Shea合作之前卫爵士吉他巨匠Marc Ribot跨刀。 ﹡Alternative Press五颗星满分顶及评价，Q与Uncut杂志四颗星、NME音乐周报7分高评价肯定。 ﹡原是当年为Robert Wilson执导之舞台剧Alice In Wonderland量身订作的作品，曾被形容为‘最伟大的Tom Waits遗珠作品’。 ﹡直接触动人心的感性曲调，让人想起Blue Valentine、Closing Time时期的Tom Waits。 我需要用一般正常写侧标的方式来介绍他吗？只因他是Tom Waits。还是我需要一五一十、钜细靡遗的告诉你他的生平故事，只因年轻如你可能才第一次由这张专辑认识他？需要吗？即使你在这一小纸片上真的看不到任何介绍性的文字，但是当你连上各大国际知名音乐杂志网站、各大校园BBS摇滚乐版中的精华区寻找资料时，却赫然发现在Tom Waits子目录里头有一大堆文艺青年的介绍及深刻感想时，你开始知道你现在认识的是一位传奇人物。甚至，你只是光看到封面一位身披墨色风衣的老男子回头望着你时，你的心里其实便已经隐隐感觉到，你手上拿的正是一块瑰宝。 Alice is an album by Tom Waits, released in 2002 on Epitaph Records (under the Anti sub-label). The album contains the majority of songs written for the play Alice. The adaptation was directed by Robert Wilson, whom Waits had previously worked with on the play The Black Rider, and originally set up at the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg in 1992. The play has since been performed in various theatres around the world. The album was co-released with Blood Money, containing songs from a play adapted by Robert Wilson from Georg Büchner's Woyzeck. It was ranked #2 in Metacritic's Top 30 albums of 2002. The songs had been released as a bootleg in several different versions called The Alice Demos many years before its official release. The source is believed to be studio recordings taken when Waits' car was broken into in late 1992.