Lucky Day Overture
The Black Rider
November
Just The Right Bullets
Black Box Theme
'Tain't No Sin
Flash Pan Hunter Intro
That's The Way
The Briar And The Rose
Russian Dance
Gospel Train orchestra
I'll Shoot The Moon
Flash Pan Hunter
Crossroads
Gospel Train
Interlude
Oily Night
Lucky Day
The Last Rose Of Summer
Carnival
Frogtoon Music Album Info: The Black Rider
Published: 06 Jun 2010, 23:07
Tom Waits' The Black Rider Is An Operetta That Was Written With William S. Burroughs And Robert Wilson. This Is The 15th Album Of Tom Waits From 1993. It's Based On A German Folktale Which Is Most Assosiated By It's Opera "Der Freischütz" By Carl Maria Von Weber. A Book Is Also Made Based On The Tale Which Is Called "The Black Rider The Casting Of The Magic Bullets" And Written By William S. Burroughs . The Book Was Made Into A Play By Theatre Director Robert Wilson And Music Was Made By Tom Waits.
So The Album Of "The Black Rider" Is The Soundtrack Of The Play. The Tale Is About A Clerk Wilhelm Who Falls In Love With The Daughter Of A Huntsman. But To Hold His Beloved He Needs To Prove Himself Worthy For Her Father By Winning A Hunting Competition. But Wilhelm Who Is A Man Of Words And Ink Has No Skills With Bearing The Rifle And Is Sinking Down In Dark Melancholy Of The Thought Of Loosing The Marriage Of His Love. In His Wanders Trough The Woods He Approaches The Devil Pegleg Who Offers Him Magic Bullets Which Is Said To Hit Whatever The Shooter Is Aiming At. But The Devil Stipulates That One Of The Bullets Is Under Peglegs Control.
Without Thinking Of Consequences He Naively Accept The Bullets. On The Day Of The Competition Where Most People Of The City Is Present Wilhelm Aims At A Crow On A Branch And The Devils Bullets Hits His Beloved One And Kills Her. From The Guilt And Damnation That Followed Him He Goes Mad. He Then Wanders With The Company Of The Other Victims Of The Cunning Of The Devils Carneval.