Alice (Tom Waits album)


Alice is the 14th album by Tom Waits, released in 2002 on Epitaph Records. 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, an album containing songs from Wilson and Waits' 2000 musical Woyzeck.
Alice 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.
The song "Poor Edward" is about Edward Mordake.
In 2006 it was awarded a diamond certification from the Independent Music Companies Association, which indicated sales of at least 250,000 copies throughout Europe. As of 2003, Alice has sold 140,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen Soundscan.

Track listing

All tracks written by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan.
  1. "Alice" – 4:28
  2. *Tom Waits – Vocal, piano
  3. *Eric Perney – Bass
  4. *Colin Stetson – Saxophone
  5. *Gino Robair – Drums
  6. *Ara Anderson – Muted trumpet
  7. "Everything You Can Think" – 3:10
  8. *Tom Waits – Vocal, mellotron, chamberlin vibes, pod
  9. *Larry Taylor – Bass, electric guitar
  10. *Matt Brubeck – Cello
  11. *Bent Clausen – Swiss hand bells
  12. *Bebe Risenfors – Stroh violin
  13. *Nik Phelps – horn, trumpet
  14. "Flower's Grave" – 3:28
  15. *Tom Waits – Vocal, piano, pump organ
  16. *Larry Taylor – Bass
  17. *Matt Brubeck – Cello
  18. *Dawn Harms – Violin
  19. *Bebe Risenfors – Alto viola, clarinet
  20. "No One Knows I'm Gone" – 1:42
  21. *Tom Waits – Vocal, pump organ
  22. *Larry Taylor – Bass
  23. *Matt Brubeck – Cello
  24. *Dawn Harms – Stroh violin, violin
  25. *Bebe Risenfors – Alto viola
  26. "Kommienezuspadt" – 3:10
  27. *Tom Waits – Vocals, pod, stomp
  28. *Larry Taylor – Bass, acoustic guitar, percussion
  29. *Andrew Borger – Oil drums, frame drum, percussion
  30. *Matt Brubeck – Cello
  31. *Bebe Risenfors – Baby bass, marimba, bass clarinet, percussion
  32. *Colin Stetson – Baritone saxophone
  33. *Tim Allen – Scraper
  34. "Poor Edward" – 3:42
  35. *Tom Waits – Vocal, piano
  36. *Larry Taylor – Bass
  37. *Matt Brubeck – Cello
  38. *Dawn Harms – Stroh violin
  39. *Bebe Risenfors – Viola
  40. "Table Top Joe" – 4:14
  41. *Tom Waits – Vocal, pump organ
  42. *Larry Taylor – Bass, acoustic guitar
  43. *Stewart Copeland – Trap kit
  44. *Bent Clausen – Piano
  45. *Joe Gore – Electric guitar
  46. *Bebe Risenfors – Baby bass
  47. "Lost in the Harbour" – 3:45
  48. *Tom Waits – Vocal, pump organ
  49. *Larry Taylor – Bass
  50. *Matt Brubeck – Cello
  51. *Dawn Harms – Stroh violin
  52. *Bebe Risenfors – Fiddle
  53. *Carla Kihlstedt – Violin
  54. "We're All Mad Here" – 2:31
  55. *Tom Waits – Vocal, piano, circular violin
  56. *Matthew Sperry – Bass
  57. *Gino Robair – Percussion
  58. *Colin Stetson – Bass clarinet
  59. *Carla Kihlstedt – Violin
  60. "Watch Her Disappear" – 2:33
  61. *Tom Waits – Vocal, pump organ
  62. *Dawn Harms – Violin
  63. *Matt Brubeck – Cello
  64. "Reeperbahn" – 4:02
  65. *Tom Waits – Vocal, piano, chamberlin
  66. *Matthew Sperry – Bass
  67. *Gino Robair – Percussion
  68. *Carla Kihlstedt – Violin
  69. *Colin Stetson – Bass clarinet
  70. *Ara Anderson – Baritone horn
  71. *Myles Boisen – Banjo
  72. "I'm Still Here" – 1:49
  73. *Tom Waits – Vocal, piano
  74. *Dawn Harms – Violin
  75. *Matt Brubeck – Cello
  76. *Colin Stetson – Clarinet
  77. "Fish & Bird" – 3:59
  78. *Tom Waits – Vocal, piano, toy glockenspiel, pump organ
  79. *Larry Taylor – Bass
  80. *Matt Brubeck – Cello
  81. *Bebe Risenfors – Clarinet
  82. *Ara Anderson – Trumpet, baritone horn
  83. *Dawn Harms – Stroh violin, violin
  84. "Barcarolle" – 3:59
  85. *Tom Waits – Vocal, piano, chamberlin vibes, cymbals
  86. *Matthew Sperry – Bass
  87. *Matt Brubeck – Bass
  88. *Colin Stetson – Saxophone
  89. *Bent Clausen – Piano solo
  90. *Dawn Harms – Violin
  91. "Fawn" – 1:43
  92. *Tom Waits – Piano
  93. *Matthew Sperry – Bass
  94. *Gino Robair – Marimba
  95. *Colin Stetson – Bass clarinet
  96. *Carla Kihlstedt – Violin

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