Alice by Tom Waits: Alt-Rock/Jazz/Blues. Released in tandem with another album, the Alice album contains the majority of songs written for the play Alice, based on the forbidden love between Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell, for whom he wrote the story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The songs range from Brechtian/Weil stomps to lush blues ballads and everything in between. TWH: Alice; Table Top Joe; We’re All Mad Here

Grade: B