Artist: Tom Waits | Album: Real Gone (Remastered) | Released: 2004, 2017 | Genre: Blues, Blues Jazz, Rock | Country: US | Duration: 01:09:03
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On Real Gone, Tom Waits walks a fraying tightrope. By utterly eliminating one of the cornerstone elements of his sound — keyboards — he has also removed his safety net. With songwriting and production partner Kathleen Brennan, he strips away almost everything conventional from these songs, taking them down to the essences of skeletal rhythms, blasted and guttural blues, razor-cut rural folk music, and the rusty-edge poetry and craft of songwriting itself. His cast includes guitarists Marc Ribot and Harry Cody, bassist/guitarist Larry Taylor, bassist Les Claypool, and percussionists Brain and Casey Waits (Tom’s son), the latter of whom also doubles on turntables. This does present problems, such as on the confrontational opener, “Top of the Hill.” Waits uses his growling, grunting vocal atop Ribot’s monotonously funky single-line riff and Casey’s turntables to become a human beatbox offering ridiculously nonsensical lyrics. It’s a throwaway, and the album would have been better had it been left off entirely. But it’s also a canard, a sleight-of-hand strategy he’s employed before. The jewels shine from the mud immediately after. The mutated swamp tango of “Hoist That Rag” has stuttered clangs and quakes for drums, decorated by distorted Latin power chords and riffs from Ribot, along with thundering deep bass from Claypool. On the ten-plus minute “Sins of My Father,” Cody’s spooky banjo walks with Taylor’s low-strung bass and Waits’ shimmering reverbed guitar as he ominously croons, revealing a rigged game of “star-spangled glitter” where “justice wears suspenders and a powdered wig.” It’s part revelation, part East of Eden, and part backroom political culture framed by the eve of the apocalypse. It’s hunted, hypnotic, and spooky.
Tracklisting:
01. Top of the Hill (4:00)
02. Hoist That Rag (4:08)
03. Sins of My Father (10:37)
04. Shake It (3:58)
05. Don’t Go Into That Barn (5:01)
06. How’s It Gonna End (4:51)
07. Metropolitan Glide (4:11)
08. Dead and Lovely (5:41)
09. Circus (3:56)
10. Trampled Rose (3:57)
11. Green Grass (3:12)
12. Baby Gonna Leave Me (3:49)
13. Clang Boom Steam (0:47)
14. Make It Rain (3:39)
15. Day After Tomorrow (5:58)
16. Chick A Boom (1:17)
Single download
Tom Waits – Top of the Hill 4:00 
Tom Waits – Hoist That Rag 4:08
Tom Waits – Sins of My Father 10:37
Tom Waits – Shake It 3:58
Tom Waits – Don’t Go Into That Barn 5:01
Tom Waits – How’s It Gonna End 4:51
Tom Waits – Metropolitan Glide 4:11
Tom Waits – Dead and Lovely 5:41
Tom Waits – Circus 3:56
Tom Waits – Trampled Rose 3:57
Tom Waits – Green Grass 3:12
Tom Waits – Baby Gonna Leave Me 3:49
Tom Waits – Clang Boom Steam 0:47
Tom Waits – Make It Rain 3:39
Tom Waits – Day After Tomorrow 5:58
Tom Waits – Chick A Boom 1:17
Category:Blues
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