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.

Reception
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."

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

Production


 * T-Bone Burnett – producer
 * Mike Piersante – engineer, mixing
 * Susan Rogers – engineer, mixing
 * Cappy Japange – assistant engineer
 * Emile Kelman – assistant engineer
 * Gavin Lurssen – mastering