Come to Where I'm From

Come to Where I'm From is the second studio album by Joseph Arthur, released by Real World Records on April 11, 2000. The album was co-produced by T Bone Burnett, and features the singles "Chemical" and "In the Sun". Arthur said, "I wanted to get the songs down in a way that was true to them and true to myself. I really wanted them to have humanity in them. I wanted an element of a gamble in it. I think too much music sounds too contained. I wanted it to sound like it could go out of control at any minute. I didn't want it produced to death."^[4]

Come to Where I'm From
Studio album by Joseph Arthur
Released	April 11, 2000
Studio	Sound City Studios, Van Nuys, California Sunset Sound Recorders, Hollywood, California Real World Studios, Bath, Somerset, England
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	56:04
Label	Real World/Virgin
Producer	T Bone Burnett Rick Will Joseph Arthur
Joseph Arthur chronology
Vacancy (EP) (1999) Come to Where I'm From (2000) Junkyard Hearts EPs (2002)
Singles from Come to Where I'm From
"Chemical" Released: June 26, 2000 "In the Sun" Released: April 23, 2001 "Exhausted" Released: 2001 (promo only)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	83/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Pitchfork	7.4/10[3]

Real World Records reissued the album in July 2012, as a part of their Real World Gold series.^[5]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"In the Sun"	5:36
2.	"Ashes Everywhere"	4:51
3.	"Chemical"	4:11
4.	"History"	5:40
5.	"Invisible Hands"	5:14
6.	"Cockroach"	3:02
7.	"Exhausted"	4:46
8.	"Eyes on My Back"	4:03
9.	"Tattoo"	4:10
10.	"The Real You"	5:27
11.	"Creation or a Stain"	4:34
12.	"Speed of Light"	4:30

All tracks are written by Joseph Arthur.

Japanese CD bonus track

No.	Title	Length
13.	"Ask the Dust"	6:50

Rusty Water

On March 11, 1999, a promo CD titled Rusty Water was released via Virgin Records. The CD featured 13 tracks, most of which would later be re-recorded, edited, and remixed to become Come to Where I'm From. As this was not the official finalized release, few promos were made.

1. "Crawlin' on Bones" (a.k.a. "Cockroach") – 3:04
2. "In the Sun" (Early Version) – 5:24
3. "Exhausted" (Early Version) – 4:03
4. "History" – 5:37
5. "Chemical" – 4:06
6. "Cocaine Blind" – 3:17
7. "Freeze You Out" – 4:30
8. "Tattoo" – 4:07
9. "Eyes on My Back" – 4:12
10. "In the Distance" – 3:24
11. "California" – 4:14
12. "Otherside" – 3:16
13. "Invisible Hands" – 5:26

Note

• The songs "Cocaine Blind" and "Otherside" (later renamed "The Other Side") appeared as B-sides to the "In the Sun" single. "California", "Freeze You Out", and "In the Distance" have not been released or re-recorded since this promo was issued.

Personnel

Musicians

• Joseph Arthur (as "Benzo") – guitar and vocals on all tracks.
• Carla Azar (as "Darkstar") – drums on tracks 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12; background vocals on track 6; shaker on track 8.
• T Bone Burnett (as "Yodaclaus") – piano on track 6.
• Markus Dravs (as "Luvclaw") – programming on tracks 4 and 7.
• Eugene Kelly (as "Eugene") – "Fuzzheart" on track 11.
• Ben Findlay (as "Spiralchugger") – additional acoustic guitar on track 4.
• Nadia Lanman (as "Queenchina") – cello on track 1.
• Jim Keltner (as "Nighttime") – drums on track 5.
• Stella Katsoudas (as "Siren") – background vocals on track 1.
• Rick Will (as "Lovehammer") – "explosions" on track 5; synthesizer on tracks 7 and 9; "kooky shit" on track 11.^[6]

Production and design

• Produced by T Bone Burnett, Joseph Arthur and Rick Will.
• Mixed by Rick Will, except:
  • Tracks 1, 5 and 12 mixed by Tchad Blake.
• Engineered by Rick Will.
• Additional engineering by Ben Findlay.
• Assistant engineering by Nick Raskulinecz and Kevin Dean Marek.
• Recorded at Sound City, Sunset Sound and Real World Studios.
• Mastered by Stephen Marcussen at A&M Mastering.
• Album cover drawings and paintings by Joseph Arthur.
• Booklet photography by Anton Corbijn.
• Art direction and design by Zachary James Larner with Joseph Arthur at Bombshelter NYC.