Tooth of Crime

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

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."

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

Production

T-Bone Burnett – producer

Mike Piersante – engineer, mixing

Susan Rogers – engineer, mixing

Cappy Japange – assistant engineer

Emile Kelman – assistant engineer

Gavin Lurssen – mastering

References

Nonesuch Records albums

2008 albums

T Bone Burnett albums

Albums produced by T Bone Burnett