Tom Waits likes to snatch stories from the street. Like the time he and this then-girlfriend, Rickie Lee Jones, were flagged down by a group of Mexican gang members. "Because of how Tom looked at the time - the tattoos, the hat - I guess these guys felt safe to talk to him," recalled Jones to the July 2011 edition of Mojo magazine. "One of them asked him where the hospital was. He glanced into the back seat, and there was a kid back there bleeding. A lot of blood. He wrote 'Romeo Is Bleeding' soon after."
This is the song that provided the title for the 1993 Gary Oldman movie about a crooked cop.
Bones Howe, known for his work with The 5th Dimension and The Association, produced this song and the rest of the Blue Valentine album. The musicians are: Bass - Jim Hughart Congas - Bobbye Hall Drums - Chip White Organ - Charles Kynard Saxophone - Frank Vicari
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