Real Gone

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Real Gone
Studio album by Tom Waits
Released	October 5, 2004
Recorded	???
Genre	Rock
Length	71:52
Label	ANTI-
Producer(s)	Kathleen Brennan Tom Waits
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (***) link PopMatters (Positive) link Pitchfork (8.0/10) link Prefixmag (9.0/10) link
Tom Waits chronology
Alice (2002)	Real Gone (2004)	Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (2006)

Real Gone is an album by Tom Waits, released October 3, 2004 in Europe, and October 5 in USA (see 2004 in music) on Epitaph Records (under the Anti- sub-label [1]).

The album was supported by the Real Gone Tour, playing a few sold out locations in North America and Europe in October and November 2004.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan.

1. "Top of the Hill" – 4:55
   • Bass - Larry Taylor
   • Guitar - Marc Ribot
   • Percussion - Brain
   • Turntables - Casey Waits
   • Vocal - Tom Waits
2. "Hoist That Rag" – 4:20
   • Bass - Les Claypool
   • Guitar - Marc Ribot
   • Percussion - Brain
   • Percussion - Casey Waits
   • Vocal - Tom Waits
3. "Sins of My Father" – 10:36
   • Bass - Larry Taylor
   • Guitar - Marc Ribot
   • Banjo - Marc Ribot
   • Guitar - Tom Waits
   • Percussion - Brain
   • Vocal - Tom Waits
4. "Shake It" – 3:52
   • Bass - Les Claypool
   • Percussion - Brain
   • Guitar - Larry Taylor
   • Guitar - Marc Ribot
   • Claps - Brain, Casey Waits, Mark Howard, Trisha Wilson
   • Vocal - Tom Waits
5. "Don't Go into That Barn" – 5:22
   • Bass - Larry Taylor
   • Guitar - Larry Taylor
   • Guitar - Harry Cody
   • Percussion - Brain, Casey Waits, Tom Waits
   • Vocals - Tom Waits
6. "How's It Gonna End" – 4:51
   • Banjo - Harry Cody
   • Bass - Larry Taylor
   • Guitar - Tom Waits
   • Vocal - Tom Waits
7. "Metropolitan Glide" – 4:13
   • Bass - Larry Taylor
   • Guitar - Harry Cody
   • Guitar - Tom Waits
   • Percussion - Brain
   • Turntables - Casey Waits
   • Vocal - Tom Waits
8. "Dead and Lovely" – 5:40
   • Bass - Larry Taylor
   • Drums - Casey Waits
   • Guitar - Marc Ribot
   • Guitar - Tom Waits
   • Vocal - Tom Waits
9. "Circus" – 3:56
   • Chamberlain - Tom Waits
   • Drums - Casey Waits
   • Bells - Mark Howard
   • Vocal - Tom Waits
10. "Trampled Rose" – 3:58
    • Cigar Box Banjo - Marc Ribot
    • Bass - Larry Taylor
    • Percussion - Brain
    • Vocal - Tom Waits
11. "Green Grass" – 3:13
    • Bass - Larry Taylor
    • Guitar - Tom Waits
    • Vocal - Tom Waits
12. "Baby Gonna Leave Me" – 4:29
    • Bass - Les Claypool
    • Guitar - Marc Ribot
    • Percussion - Brain
    • Shakers - Tom Waits
    • Vocal - Tom Waits
13. "Clang Boom Steam" – 0:46
    • Vocal - Tom Waits
14. "Make It Rain" – 3:39
    • Bass - Larry Taylor
    • Drums - Casey Waits
    • Guitar - Marc Ribot
    • Vocal - Tom Waits
15. "Day After Tomorrow" – 6:56
    • Bass - Larry Taylor
    • Guitar - Marc Ribot
    • Guitar - Tom Waits
    • Vocal - Tom Waits
16. "Chick a Boom" – 1:17

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 "Sins of My Father" and "Don't Go Into that Barn".

[edit] Musicians

The musicians featured on Real Gone are:

• 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 - Claps

[edit] Miscellanea

• Casey Waits is Tom's son.
• Tom Waits has described the song "Day After Tomorrow" as an "elliptical" protest song against the Iraq 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, in which slaves were kept.

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