Tom Waits - The Black Rider - LP

30th Anniversary, 180 Gram Black Vinyl, Newly Remastered

2023 marks 30 years since Tom Waits released The Black Rider. Originally released in 1993 on Island Records, it is Waits' 12th studio album — a musical comedy/horror collaboration between director/designer Robert Wilson, Beat writer William S. Burroughs, and Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan. Not a cast album, this is Waits' own interpretation and performance of the songs he created for the stage production: a Waitsian concoction of pop, vaudeville, rock, cabaret and blues rooted in German Romantic literature and Weber's opera "Der Freischütz." Newly remastered for the first time from the original 1/2" flat master tape, personally overseen by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan.

Features

• 30th Anniversary edition on 180-gram black vinyl
• Newly remastered from the original 1/2" flat master tape; mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering; restored packaging
• Label: Island Records / UMe

Track Listing

Side One:

1. Lucky Day (Overture)
2. The Black Rider
3. November
4. Just The Right Bullets
5. Black Box Theme
6. 'T' Ain't No Sin
7. Flash Pan Hunter (Intro)
8. That's The Way
9. The Briar And The Rose
10. Russian Dance

Side Two:

1. Gospel Train (Orchestra)
2. I'll Shoot The Moon
3. Flash Pan Hunter
4. Crossroads
5. Gospel Train
6. Interlude
7. Oily Night
8. Lucky Day
9. The Last Rose Of Summer
10. Carnival