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Tom Waits

Crossroads

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The Black Rider is an album by Tom Waits, released in 1993 on Island Records. The album contains studio versions of songs Waits wrote for the play The Black Rider, directed by Robert Wilson and co-written by William S. Burroughs. The play is based on the German folktale Der Freischütz, which had previously been made into an opera by Carl Maria von Weber. The Black Rider premiered on March 31, 1990, at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, Germany. Its world English-language premiere occurred in 1998 at the Edmonton International Fringe Festival. Waits’s collaboration with Wilson would later continue with the plays Alice (1992) and Woyzeck (2000), the music to which was released on the albums Alice and Blood Money, respectively. There is a German vinyl release of this album featuring quite... Read on...

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More songs by Tom Waits (See Charts): Way Down In The Hole, Looks Like I'M Up Shit Creek Again, The Ocean Doesn'T Want Me, That Feel, Mockin' Bird, Bad As Me, Hell Broke Luce, Down, Down, Down, What'S He Building?, and Hang Down Your Head.

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