“Alice” by Tom Waits

"Alice" is the title song of Tom Waits' fourteenth studio album, which Anti- released in 2002, but its roots go back a decade: Waits wrote these songs with Kathleen Brennan for Alice, an opera made with Robert Wilson, who directed it in Hamburg, at the Thalia Theatre, in 1992. The show circled Lewis Carroll's fixation on Alice Liddell, the girl who inspired Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and for years the songs lived on as bootlegs, thought to trace back to studio tapes swiped from Waits' car in a break-in late in 1992.

Here Waits sings and plays piano, with Colin Stetson on saxophone, Ara Anderson on trumpet, Eric Perney on bass and Gino Robair on drums. He produced it with Brennan, Oz Fritz recorded and mixed it, and the album arrived alongside its twin, Blood Money, the songs from Wilson's Woyzeck.

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