The Black Rider (album)
1993 studio album by Tom Waits / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Black Rider is the twelfth studio album by Tom Waits, released in 1993 on Island Records, featuring 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 by Johann August Apel, which had previously been made into an opera by Carl Maria von Weber. It is about a clerk who makes a Faustian bargain for magic bullets, with tragic results. The play 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. Per the Los Angeles Times, "It’s most easily described as a Faustian musical-tragicomedy."[11]
The Black Rider | ||||
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Released | September 1993 (1993-09) | |||
Recorded | 1989, 1993 | |||
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Length | 56:08 | |||
Label | Island | |||
Producer | Tom Waits | |||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Chicago Tribune | [2] |
Entertainment Weekly | B[3] |
Los Angeles Times | [4] |
Mojo | [5] |
NME | 8/10[6] |
Q | [7] |
Rolling Stone | [8] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [9] |
Select | 4/5[10] |
Waits would later collaborate with Wilson on Alice (1992) and Woyzeck (2000); the songs for those were released on the albums Alice and Blood Money, respectively.