- Real Gone
Infobox Album
Name = Real Gone
Type = studio
Artist =Tom Waits
Released =October 3 ,2004
Recorded = ???
Genre = Rock
Length = 71:52
Label =ANTI-
Producer =Kathleen Brennan Tom Waits
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:z7d5vwnwa9uk~T1 link]
*Robert Christgau Rating-Christgau|hm3 [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Tom+Waits link]
*Music Box Rating|4|5 [http://www.musicbox-online.com/tw-real.html link]
*PopMatters (positive) [http://popmatters.com/music/reviews/w/waitstom-realgone.shtml link]
*Pitchfork (8.0/10) [http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/23068/Tom_Waits_Real_Gone link]
*Rolling Stone Rating|3|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/tomwaits/albums/album/6530065/review/6537307/real_gone]
Last album = "Alice"
(2002)
This album = "Real Gone"
(2004)
Next album = ""
(2006)"Real Gone" is an album by
Tom Waits , releasedOctober 3 ,2004 inEurope , andOctober 5 inUSA (see2004 in music ) onEpitaph Records (under the "Anti-" sub-label [http://www.anti.com] ).The album features some of the few political songs Waits has ever written. The most explicit of these is "Day After Tomorrow" and less noticeably "Don't Go Into that Barn".
The album was supported by the "
Real Gone Tour ", playing a few sold out locations inNorth America andEurope in October and November 2004.Track listing
All songs written by Tom Waits and
Kathleen Brennan .# "Top of the Hill" – 4:55
#*Larry Taylor - Bass
#*Marc Ribot - Guitar
#*Brain - Percussion
#*Casey Waits - Turntables
#*Tom Waits - Vocal
# "Hoist That Rag" – 4:20
#*Les Claypool - Bass
#*Marc Ribot - Guitar
#*Brain - Percussion
#*Casey Waits - Percussion
#*Tom Waits - Vocal
# "Sins of My Father" – 10:36
#*Larry Taylor - Bass
#*Marc Ribot - Guitar, Banjo
#*Tom Waits - Vocal, Guitar
#*Brain - Percussion
# "Shake It" – 3:52
#*Les Claypool - Bass
#*Brain - Percussion, Claps
#*Larry Taylor - Guitar
#*Marc Ribot - Guitar
#*Casey Waits, Mark Howard, Trisha Wilson - Claps
#*Tom Waits - Vocal
# "Don't Go into That Barn" – 5:22
#*Larry Taylor - Guitar, Bass
#*Harry Cody - Guitar
#*Brain - Percussion
#*Casey Waits - Percussion
#*Tom Waits - Vocal, Percussion
# "How's It Gonna End" – 4:51
#*Harry Cody - Banjo
#*Larry Taylor - Bass
#*Tom Waits - Vocal, Guitar
# "Metropolitan Glide" – 4:13
#*Larry Taylor - Bass
#*Harry Cody - Guitar
#*Brain - Percussion
#*Casey Waits - Turntables
#*Tom Waits - Vocal, Guitar
# "Dead and Lovely" – 5:40
#*Larry Taylor - Bass
#*Casey Waits - Drums
#*Marc Ribot - Guitar
#*Tom Waits - Vocal, Guitar
# "Circus" – 3:56
#*Tom Waits - Vocal, Chamberlain
#*Casey Waits - Drums
#*Mark Howard - Bells
# "Trampled Rose" – 3:58
#*Marc Ribot - Cigar Box Banjo
#*Larry Taylor - Bass
#*Brain - Percussion
#*Tom Waits - Vocal
# "Green Grass" – 3:13
#*Larry Taylor - Bass
#*Tom Waits - Vocal, Guitar
# "Baby Gonna Leave Me" – 4:29
#*Les Claypool - Bass
#*Marc Ribot - Guitar
#*Brain - Percussion
#*Tom Waits - Vocal, Shakers
# "Clang Boom Steam" – 0:46
#*Tom Waits - Vocal
# "Make It Rain" – 3:39
#*Larry Taylor - Bass
#*Casey Waits - Drums
#*Marc Ribot - Guitar
#*Tom Waits - Vocal
# "Day After Tomorrow" – 6:56
#*Larry Taylor - Bass
#*Marc Ribot - Guitar
#*Tom Waits - Vocal, Guitar
# "Chickaboom" – 1:17 (hidden track)Personnel
* Brain – percussion, claps
*Les Claypool – bass
* Harry Cody –guitar ,banjo
* Mark Howard – bells, claps
*Marc Ribot – guitar, banjo, cigar box banjo
*Larry Taylor – bass, guitar
* Casey Waits – drums, turntables, percussion, claps
*Tom Waits – vocals, guitar, chamberlain, percussion, shakers
* Trisha Wilson – clapsMiscellanea
* Casey Waits is Tom's son.
* Tom Waits has described the song "Day After Tomorrow" as an "elliptical"protest song against theIraq War .
* "Real Gone" is the only Tom Waits album to completely lack piano.
* Chosen by the editors of "Harp Magazine " as the best album of 2004.
* The song "Don't Go Into That Barn" draws its source from a real-life rural slave jail.http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/2003-May/002763.html
* "Dead and Lovely" is the opening song in the 2007 film "Wristcutters: A Love Story".
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