Alice

the album was missing in the book (Kommeniezuspat) and one or two songs are transcripted in a slightly different key (comparing to the original).

use of F sharp giving the listener or piano player the easy opportunity to play in G. Notice that most of his songs are in C or G. In the Alice sheet music, the proper notation is used and for guitars, one is advised to place a capo on the first fret (making the open 1st and 6th strings F sharp). He also includes Kathleen Brennan as co-writer of the songs--finally. She has been working with him throughout their more than twenty year marriage.

albums, but with the finesse of newly polished brass in a dusty,cobweb filled attic. He grows in perfection like a fine aperitif each year passing bringing finer richer notes to his music/poetry. The balance of sadness, beauty and grit is finely tuned and the overall feeling is that of waking up the next morning after falling in love while stumbling drunkenly on the nod of some excellent Turkish and Bourbon in out of the rain to a dirty old bodega to find some old bum playing like fire on the piano with a backup band from heaven and hell. Perfectly Tom Waits.