Blood Money (Tom Waits Album)

Blood Money (Tom Waits album)

Blood Money is an album by Tom Waits, released in 2002 on the ANTI- label.

The album contains songs written for the play Woyzeck, based on the play of the same name by Georg Büchner. The theatrical adaptation was directed by Robert Wilson, with whom Waits had worked on two previous plays: The Black Rider and Alice, both of which resulted in soundtrack albums. The latter was released simultaneously in 2002 with Blood Money. The play premiered at the Betty Nansen Theatre in Copenhagen in November 2000.

The song "God's Away on Business" featured in the film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005).

This album ranked at #18 in Metacritic's Top 30 albums of 2002.