- Paperback: 60 pages
- Publisher: Music Sales America; 1 edition (May 1 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0825619432
- ISBN-13: 978-0825619434
- Product Dimensions: 30.7 x 22.7 x 0.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 454 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,006,737 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Co-written with Kathleen Brennan as a loose adaptation of the play Woyzeck by German poet Georg Buchner. The play was inspired by the true story of a German soldier who was driven mad by bizarre army medical experiments and infidelity, which led him to murder his lover. 13 of his best songs, including: Coney Island Baby * Knife Chase * Woe * Calliope * A Good Man Is Hard to Find * and more.
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Pretty accurate!, Feb 8 2009
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This review is from: Tom Waits - Blood Money (Paperback)
This is a good purchase for anyone wanting the true structure to the songs on the Blood Money album.When I first opened it, I closed it again to look for the 'easy play version' printing on the front. I couldn't find it, so I opened it again warily and began to play.
The piano parts are grossly bare, but they provide an amazingly accurate platform to build on, which ought to get you pretty close to the end production of Blood Money in its audio format. Instrumentals are missing altogether, and left hand instructions could be read by a committed student in their second year of learning. But there is enough printed to recognise the pieces, and their is a lot of space in the writing to allow for individual treatments or improvisations to work out where the real interpretations lie. In defense of the producer, to produce a book that is note for note the artist's work would mean a 534 page production that looks messy and is near on impossible to play at a glance. There would be painists out there still trying to work their way through the second piece eight months after purchasing the book if it were offered in that format!
I actually found the guitar chording to be of better or more immediate value. I've been able to take these chord charts straight from the book into a busking or live performance situation, and they are spot on. I have found that Tom Waits on acoustic guitar is a completely different game, but one that is a lot of fun. This book has opened new doors musically and creatively for me, not where I expected it (at the keys), but where I went experimentally (guitar).
All in all, this is a great purchase for someone wanting to learn how to follow Waits' form or writing style (for this album, anyway!), or for someone who is familiar enough with his work to fill in the gaps. For anyone just wanting to be able to belt out a few Waits numbers (on piano or guitar) to impress family and friends, this production will let you do this in about eight minutes after you open it. Absolutely no strings instructions, or brass, which is understandable in a guitar, vocal, piano book... but can you buy the brass/strings book anywhere? I think not. :-)
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