Tooth of Crime

Tooth of Crime is an album by T Bone Burnett. The album is a selection of music written by Burnett for the 1996 production of Sam Shepard's play The Tooth of Crime.

Tooth of Crime
Studio album by T Bone Burnett
Released	May 13, 2008
Genre	Rock
Length	39:23
Label	Nonesuch
Producer	T Bone Burnett
T Bone Burnett chronology
Twenty Twenty - The Essential T Bone Burnett (2006) Tooth of Crime (2008)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Boston Phoenix	[2]

Music critic Mark Deming of Allmusic praised the album and wrote "Tooth of Crime is a smart, absorbing, and beautifully disquieting collection of songs that could have come from no one else but T Bone Burnett, and it shows that one of America's best songwriters may be working at a very deliberate pace but he still has some remarkable things left to tell us."^[1]

Track listing

1. "Anything I Say Can and Will Be Used Against You" – 4:02
2. "Dope Island" – 4:16
3. "The Slowdown" – 4:43
4. "Blind Man" – 1:22
5. "Kill Zone" – 4:19
6. "The Rat Age" – 5:30
7. "Swizzle Stick" – 5:10
8. "Telepresence (Make the Metal Scream)" – 3:06
9. "Here Come the Philistines" – 3:33
10. "Sweet Lullaby" – 3:24

Personnel

• T-Bone Burnett – vocals, guitar, six-string bass, piano
• Sam Phillips – vocals, backing vocals
• Marc Ribot – banjo, guitar
• Greg Leisz – steel guitar
• Jon Brion – Chamberlin, baritone guitar
• J. D. Foster – bass
• John E. Abbey – bass
• Sim Cain – drums
• Jagoda – drums
• Jim Keltner – drums, percussion
• Joe Sublett – tenor saxophone
• Greg Smith – baritone saxophone, bass saxophone
• Ken Kugler – trombone, bass trombone, tuba
• Darrell Leonard – trombonium, pocket trumpet
• Les Lovitt – flugelhorn
• Dan Kelly – French horn
• Suzette Moriarty – French horn
• Kurt Snyder – French horn
• Miguel Ferrer – backing vocals
• Leslie Kahn – backing vocals
• David Poe – backing vocals^[3]

Production

• T-Bone Burnett – producer
• Mike Piersante – engineer, mixing
• Susan Rogers – engineer, mixing
• Cappy Japange – assistant engineer
• Emile Kelman – assistant engineer
• Gavin Lurssen – mastering^[3]