Tooth of Crime

Tooth of Crime
Studio album by
T Bone Burnett
ReleasedMay 13, 2008
GenreRock
Length39:23
LabelNonesuch
ProducerT Bone Burnett
T Bone Burnett chronology
Twenty Twenty - The Essential T Bone Burnett
(2006) 		Tooth of Crime
(2008)

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.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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

  1. "Anything I Say Can and Will Be Used Against You" – 4:02
  2. "Dope Island" – 4:16
  3. "The Slowdown" – 4:43
  4. "Blind Man" – 1:22
  5. "Kill Zone" – 4:19
  6. "The Rat Age" – 5:30
  7. "Swizzle Stick" – 5:10
  8. "Telepresence (Make the Metal Scream)" – 3:06
  9. "Here Come the Philistines" – 3:33
  10. "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

References

  1. ^ a b Deming, Mark. "Tooth of Crime > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved June 22, 2011.
  2. ^ DrozDowski, Ted. "T Bone Burnett: Tooth of Crime (Second Dance)". Boston Phoenix.
  3. ^ a b "Tooth of Crime - T-Bone Burnett | Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 20 July 2017.