Tom Waits for No Man

ANTI- has posted some details about the tracks on Real Gone along with some of the musicians working on the album:

Tracklisting for Real Gone is:

1. Top of the Hill. The song has a ‘cut up’ Mungo Jerry dance feel with a syncopated wind-up car beat highlighted by turntables, nonsense rhyme and kazoo funk guitar. Described by Waits as “an expensive ride to a bad neighbourhood”.
2. Hoist That Rag. A pounding heat-soaked Afro-Cuban-style sea tale of plundering mercenaries.
3. Sins of My Father. A crosscut and fade of dark tales and wayward odysseys, complete with oblique references to politics past and present. A song which chronicles personal and collective failings … with a promise of redemption.
4. Shake It. An erotic mambo melded into a blue stomp … an escaped convict’s dream of real freedom.
5. Don’t Go Into That Barn. A cautionary tale, A rural blues’ Night of the Hunter told in the voices of four different characters.
6. How’s It Gonna End. Bleak vignettes of tragic endings – every card in the deck is a spade.
7. Metropolitan Glide. A twisted James Brown funky-bad dance number, complete with Waits’ own instructions on a strange new step.
8. Dead and Lovely. Blond ambition. It’s about all the young girls who get into cars with powerful men hoping to be driven to great new heights.
9. Circus. The portrait of a struggling family circus with a one-eyed this and a broken that and one of these instead of one of those. The tune features Casey Waits on drums behind a broken carousel waltz.
10. Trampled Rose. West Africa joined with Appalachia and a furtive tarantella.
11. Green Grass. Love is never having to say goodbye – touching or diabolical?
12. Baby Gonna Leave Me. Rocks in a blender, the Stones in a can …
13. Clang Boom Steam.
14. Make It Rain. Naked gospel blues, giving God his marching orders. Thick and lurid guitar work from Marc Ribot.
15. Day After Tomorrow. The human face of war.

Real Gone has been engineered by Mark Howard, whose previous credits include work with Bob Dylan and Lucinda Williams. The musicians featured on Real Gone are:

• Larry Taylor (bass and guitar). One of the original members of Canned Heat, Taylor is a veteran of Tom Waits’ recordings since 1980’s Heartattack & Vine album;
• Marc Ribot (guitar and cigar box banjo). Real Gone is Ribot’s first full collaboration with Tom Waits since their classic pairing on 1985’s acclaimed Raindogs album. Ribot is also the leader of Los Cubanos Postizos;
• Brain Mantia (drums). Brain is a former member of Primus and was most recently seen playing on the Guns N’ Roses tour;
• Casey X. Waits (percussion and turntables). Casey also contributed to 2002’s Blood Money album;
• Les Claypool (electric bass). Claypool is a member of Primus;
• Harry Cody (guitar and banjo). Cody made his reputation with the ’90s Swedish band, Shotgun Messiah.

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