''Real Gone'' is the sixteenth studio album by

Tom Waits Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American musician, composer, songwriter, and actor. His lyrics often focus on the underbelly of society and are delivered in his trademark deep, gravelly voice. He worked primarily in jazz during ...

, released October 3, 2004 in Europe, and October 5 in United States on the

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label. The album was supported by the

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, playing sold out locations in

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and

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in October and November 2004. The album features some of the few political songs Waits has written, the most explicit being "Day After Tomorrow", a song Waits has described as an "elliptical"

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against the

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. It was chosen by the editors of '' Harp Magazine'' as the best album of 2004. A remixed, remastered version of the album was released by

on November 22, 2017, with the remastering process personally overseen by

and Kathleen Brennan.

Track listing

All songs written by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan. # "Top of the Hill" – 4:55 # "Hoist That Rag" – 4:20 # "Sins of My Father" – 10:36 # "Shake It" – 3:52 # "Don't Go into That Barn" – 5:22 # "How's It Gonna End" – 4:51 # "Metropolitan Glide" – 4:13 # "Dead and Lovely" – 5:40 # "Circus" – 3:56 # "Trampled Rose" – 3:58 # "Green Grass" – 3:13 # "Baby Gonna Leave Me" – 4:29 # "Clang Boom Steam" – 0:46 # "Make It Rain" – 3:39 # "Day After Tomorrow" – 6:56 # "Chick a Boom" – 1:17 (hidden track)

Personnel

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–

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(tracks 1–5, 7, 10 and 12), claps (track 4) * Les Claypool – bass (tracks 2, 4 and 12) *Harry K. Cody –

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

(tracks 5 and 7),

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...

(track 6) *Mark Howard – bells (track 9), claps (track 4) * Marc Ribot – guitar (tracks 1–4, 8, 11, 12, 14 and 15), banjo (track 3), cigar box banjo (track 10) * Larry Taylor – bass (tracks 1, 3, 5–8, 10–12, 14 and 15), guitar (tracks 4 and 5) *Casey Waits –

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(tracks 8, 9 and 14), turntables (tracks 1 and 7), percussion (tracks 2 and 5), claps (track 4) *Tom Waits –

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, guitar (tracks 3, 6, 7, 11 and 15), chamberlin (track 9), percussion (track 5), shakers (track 12),

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(tracks 1, 7, 12, 13 and 16) *Trisha Wilson – claps (track 4)

Chart positions

References

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