Tom Waits - Alice Artist_Toquinho The first of his series

The first of his series of albums titled "Bae"

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The several months of recording had caught up to Big Thief at this point so

The oxymoron is one Barnes says best describes the overall state of his life and mental outlook while working on the record: first on a writing retreat in New York City

Tom Waits - Alice Artist_Toquinho The first of his seriesThis album has been called Wait's long lost masterpiece. Originally performed as an opera directed by Robert Wilson for Hamburg's Thalia Theatre in 1992, but left unrecorded until 2001. The show ran for a year and a half using an unusual orchestra designed by Waits to underpin the songs co written with his wife Kathleen Brennen. Rather than being directly based on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, the Waits Brennen