Real Gone
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Real Gone is an album by Tom Waits
, released October 3, 2004 in Europe, and October 5 in United States on the ANTI-
label.
The album features some of the few political songs Waits has ever written, the most explicit being "Day After Tomorrow", a song Waits has described as an "elliptical" protest
against the Iraq War.
The album was supported by the Real Gone Tour
, playing sold out locations in North America
and Europe
in October and November 2004.
It was chosen by the editors of Harp Magazine as the best album of 2004.
.
Tom Waits
Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."...
, released October 3, 2004 in Europe, and October 5 in United States on the ANTI-
ANTI-
ANTI- is an American record label founded in 1999 as a sister label of Epitaph Records.While Epitaph's focus has shifted over the last decade from mostly punk rock, nowadays ANTI- has a more diverse roster, ranging from country , hip hop , reggae , Soul , folk , rap-rock , indie rock...
label.
The album features some of the few political songs Waits has ever written, the most explicit being "Day After Tomorrow", a song Waits has described as an "elliptical" protest
Protest song
A protest song is a song which is associated with a movement for social change and hence part of the broader category of topical songs . It may be folk, classical, or commercial in genre...
against the Iraq War.
The album was supported by the Real Gone Tour
Real Gone Tour
The Real Gone Tour was the Tom Waits tour in support of his October 2004 release of the album Real Gone.-Personnel:*Tom Waits - vocals, piano, percussion, guitar*Larry Taylor - upright bass*Marc Ribot - guitar*Bryan "Brain" Mantia - drums...
, playing sold out locations in North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
and Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
in October and November 2004.
It was chosen by the editors of Harp Magazine as the best album of 2004.
Chart information
| Chart | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition.... |
16 |
| UK | 16 |
| US | 28 |
Track listing
All songs written by Tom Waits and Kathleen BrennanKathleen Brennan
Kathleen Brennan is an American musician, songwriter, record producer and artist. She was born in Johnsburg, Illinois, as noted by her husband and musical collaborator Tom Waits, in the song of the same name. Brennan and Waits met in 1980 during the filming of the Francis Ford Coppola film One from...
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- "Top of the Hill" – 4:55
- Larry TaylorLarry TaylorLarry Taylor is an American bass guitarist, best known for his work as a member of Canned Heat from 1967. Before joining Canned Heat he had been a session bassist for The Monkees and Jerry Lee Lewis...
- Bass - Marc RibotMarc RibotMarc 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 - BrainBryan MantiaBryan "Brain" Mantia is a contemporary rock drummer. He has played with bands like Primus, Guns N' Roses, Praxis and Godflesh, and with other popular performers such as Tom Waits, Bill Laswell, Bootsy Collins and Buckethead...
- Percussion - Casey Waits - Turntables
- Tom Waits - Vocal
- Larry Taylor
- "Hoist That Rag" – 4:20
- Les ClaypoolLes ClaypoolLeslie Edward "Les" Claypool is an American musician and writer, best known as the lead vocalist and bassist in the band Primus. Claypool's playing style on the electric bass mixes tapping, flamenco-like strumming, whammy bar bends and slapping.Claypool has also self produced and engineered his...
- Bass - Marc Ribot - Guitar
- Brain - Percussion
- Casey Waits - Percussion
- Tom Waits - Vocal
- Les Claypool
- "Sins of My Father" – 10:36
- Larry Taylor - Bass
- Marc Ribot - Guitar, Banjo
- Tom Waits - Vocal, Guitar
- Brain - Percussion
- "Shake It" – 3:52
- Les Claypool - Bass
- Brain - Percussion, Claps
- Larry Taylor - Guitar
- Marc Ribot - Guitar
- Casey Waits, Mark Howard, Trisha Wilson - Claps
- Tom Waits - Vocal
- "Don't Go into That Barn" – 5:22
- Larry Taylor - Guitar, Bass
- Harry Cody - Guitar
- Brain - Percussion
- Casey Waits - Percussion
- Tom Waits - Vocal, Percussion
- "How's It Gonna End" – 4:51
- Harry Cody - Banjo
- Larry Taylor - Bass
- Tom Waits - Vocal, Guitar
- "Metropolitan Glide" – 4:13
- Larry Taylor - Bass
- Harry Cody - Guitar
- Brain - Percussion
- Casey Waits - Turntables
- Tom Waits - Vocal, Guitar
- "Dead and Lovely" – 5:40
- Larry Taylor - Bass
- Casey Waits - Drums
- Marc Ribot - Guitar
- Tom Waits - Vocal, Guitar
- "Circus" – 3:56
- Tom Waits - Vocal, Chamberlain
- Casey Waits - Drums
- Mark Howard - Bells
- "Trampled Rose" – 3:58
- Marc Ribot - Cigar Box Banjo
- Larry Taylor - Bass
- Brain - Percussion
- Tom Waits - Vocal
- "Green Grass" – 3:13
- Larry Taylor - Bass
- Tom Waits - Vocal, Guitar
- "Baby Gonna Leave Me" – 4:29
- Les Claypool - Bass
- Marc Ribot - Guitar
- Brain - Percussion
- Tom Waits - Vocal, Shakers
- "Clang Boom Steam" – 0:46
- Tom Waits - Vocal
- "Make It Rain" – 3:39
- Larry Taylor - Bass
- Casey Waits - Drums
- Marc Ribot - Guitar
- Tom Waits - Vocal
- "Day After Tomorrow" – 6:56
- Larry Taylor - Bass
- Marc Ribot - Guitar
- Tom Waits - Vocal, Guitar
- "Chickaboom" – 1:17 (hidden track)
- Tom Waits - Vocal
Personnel
- Brain – percussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
, claps - Les ClaypoolLes ClaypoolLeslie Edward "Les" Claypool is an American musician and writer, best known as the lead vocalist and bassist in the band Primus. Claypool's playing style on the electric bass mixes tapping, flamenco-like strumming, whammy bar bends and slapping.Claypool has also self produced and engineered his...
– bass - Harry Cody – guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, banjoBanjoIn the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new... - Mark Howard – bells, claps
- Marc RibotMarc RibotMarc 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, banjo, cigar box banjoCigar box guitarThe cigar box guitar is a primitive chordophone that uses an empty cigar box for a resonator. "Guitar" refers to the traditional instrument and to a string bass. The earliest predecessors had one or two strings compared with the three or more used in today's models... - Larry TaylorLarry TaylorLarry Taylor is an American bass guitarist, best known for his work as a member of Canned Heat from 1967. Before joining Canned Heat he had been a session bassist for The Monkees and Jerry Lee Lewis...
– bass, guitar - Casey Waits – drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
, turntables, percussion, claps - Tom Waits – vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
, guitar, chamberlinChamberlinThe Chamberlin is an electro-mechanical keyboard instrument that was a precursor to the Mellotron. It was developed and patented by Iowa, Wisconsin inventor Harry Chamberlin from 1949 to 1956, when the first model was introduced. Various models and versions of these Chamberlin music instruments...
, percussion, shakers - Trisha Wilson – claps