Track listing

1. "Heat Takes a Walk" - 2:43
2. "Lonely Town" - 4:09
3. "Goin' Southbound" - 4:42
4. "Dogs" - 4:05
5. "Can't Complain" - 3:49
6. "Peg and Pet and Me" - 4:41
7. "Newspapers" - 2:41
8. "Calling Out to Carol" - 4:04
9. "The Last Honest Man" - 4:01
10. "A Mission in Life" - 5:53

Personnel

• Stan Ridgway - vocals, harmonica, piano, guitar
• Eric Williams - guitar
• Marc Ribot
  Marc Ribot
  Marc Ribot born May 21, 1954) is an American guitarist and composer.His own work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, and Cuban music. Ribot is also known for collaborating with other musicians, most notably Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, and composer John Zorn.-Biography:Ribot was...
  
   - guitar
• Joe Ramirez, Tim Landers
  Tim Landers
  Timothy Gerard Landers is an American bass guitarist, composer and record producer.He graduated from Brockton High School in 1975 and attended the Berklee College of Music from 1976 to 1977, studying under Neil Stubenhaus and Whit Browne...
  
   - bass
• Joe Berardi - drums
• Steve Reid
  Steve Reid
  Steve Reid was an American jazz drummer who played with a wide range of artists including Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, James Brown, Fela Kuti and Sun Ra, and as a session drummer for Motown.- Biography :...
  
   - percussion
• Bernard Hall, Jim Lang, Pietra Wexstun
  Pietra Wexstun
  Pietra Wexstun is an electronic musician and singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, California. She has fronted for the band Hecate's Angels since 1996, and has performed with her husband Stan Ridgway since 1986. She has contributed to all of Ridgway's solo and Drywall albums, performing backing...
  
   - keyboards
• Larry Grennan, Pietra Wexstun, Tori Amos
  Tori Amos
  Tori Amos is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument...
  
   - background vocals
• Steve Berlin
  Steve Berlin
  Steve Berlin is an American saxophonist, keyboardist and record producer, best known as a member of the rock group Los Lobos and, before that, Top Jimmy & The Rhythm Pigs, The Blasters, and The Flesh Eaters...
  
   - saxophone on "Dogs"
• Tori Amos
  Tori Amos
  Tori Amos is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument...
  
   - background vocals on 4,6,9
• Van Dyke Parks
  Van Dyke Parks
  Van Dyke Parks is an American composer, arranger, producer, musician, singer, author and actor. Parks is perhaps best known for his contributions as a lyricist on the Beach Boys album Smile....
  
   - string arrangement on "Heat Takes a Walk"

Accolades

Singles