The Black Rider

Posted by beatdomdavid in The Modern Beat on July 13, 2012 2:21 pm / no comments

In the late 1980s, William S. Burroughs and Tom Waits collaborated on a musical called The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets. In 1990 it was performed on Austrian TV, and here’s the rip that was recently released on YouTube…

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