Tooth of Crime
2008 studio album by T Bone Burnett
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Tooth of Crime is an album by T Bone Burnett. The album is a selection of music written by Burnett for the 1996 production of Sam Shepard's play The Tooth of Crime.
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| Released | May 13, 2008 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 39:23 | |||
| Label | Nonesuch | |||
| Producer | T Bone Burnett | |||
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Reception
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Boston Phoenix |  [2] |
Music critic Mark Deming of Allmusic praised the album and wrote "Tooth of Crime is a smart, absorbing, and beautifully disquieting collection of songs that could have come from no one else but T Bone Burnett, and it shows that one of America's best songwriters may be working at a very deliberate pace but he still has some remarkable things left to tell us."[1]
Track listing
- "Anything I Say Can and Will Be Used Against You" – 4:02
- "Dope Island" – 4:16
- "The Slowdown" – 4:43
- "Blind Man" – 1:22
- "Kill Zone" – 4:19
- "The Rat Age" – 5:30
- "Swizzle Stick" – 5:10
- "Telepresence (Make the Metal Scream)" – 3:06
- "Here Come the Philistines" – 3:33
- "Sweet Lullaby" – 3:24
Personnel
- T-Bone Burnett – vocals, guitar, six-string bass, piano
- Sam Phillips – vocals, backing vocals
- Marc Ribot – banjo, guitar
- Greg Leisz – steel guitar
- Jon Brion – Chamberlin, baritone guitar
- J. D. Foster – bass
- John E. Abbey – bass
- Sim Cain – drums
- Jagoda – drums
- Jim Keltner – drums, percussion
- Joe Sublett – tenor saxophone
- Greg Smith – baritone saxophone, bass saxophone
- Ken Kugler – trombone, bass trombone, tuba
- Darrell Leonard – trombonium, pocket trumpet
- Les Lovitt – flugelhorn
- Dan Kelly – French horn
- Suzette Moriarty – French horn
- Kurt Snyder – French horn
- Miguel Ferrer – backing vocals
- Leslie Kahn – backing vocals
- David Poe – backing vocals[3]
Production
- T-Bone Burnett – producer
- Mike Piersante – engineer, mixing
- Susan Rogers – engineer, mixing
- Cappy Japange – assistant engineer
- Emile Kelman – assistant engineer
- Gavin Lurssen – mastering[3]