'' is an album by Tom Waits , released October 3 , 2004 in Europe , and October 5 in USA (see 2004 In Music ) on Epitaph Records (under the '' Anti- '' sub-label {Link without Title} ).
The album features some of the few political songs Waits has ever written. The most explicit of these is "Day After Tomorrow" and less noticeably "Hoist That Rag", "Sins of My Father" and "Don't Go Into that Barn".
The album was supported by the '' Real Gone Tour '', playing a few sold out locations in North America and Europe in October and November 2004.
All songs written by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan .
# "Top of the Hill" – 4:55
- Bass - Les Claypool
- Guitar - Marc Ribot
- Percussion - Brain
- Percussion - Casey Waits
- Vocal - Tom Waits
# "Sins of My Father" – 10:36
- Bass - Larry Taylor
- Guitar - Marc Ribot
- Banjo - Marc Ribot
- Guitar - Tom Waits
- Percussion - Brain
- Vocal - Tom Waits
# "Shake It" – 3:52
- Bass - Les Claypool
- Percussion - Brain
- Guitar - Larry Taylor
- Guitar - Marc Ribot
- Claps - Brain, Casey Waits, Mark Howard, Trisha Wilson
- Vocal - Tom Waits
# "Don't Go into That Barn" – 5:22
- Bass - Larry Taylor
- Guitar - Larry Taylor
- Guitar - Harry Cody
- Percussion - Brain, Casey Waits, Tom Waits
- Vocals - Tom Waits
# "How's It Gonna End" – 4:51
- Banjo - Harry Cody
- Bass - Larry Taylor
- Guitar - Tom Waits
- Vocal - Tom Waits
# "Metropolitan Glide" – 4:13
- Bass - Larry Taylor
- Guitar - Harry Cody
- Guitar - Tom Waits
- Percussion - Brain
- Turntables - Casey Waits
- Vocal - Tom Waits
# "Dead and Lovely" – 5:40
- Bass - Larry Taylor
- Drums - Casey Waits
- Guitar - Marc Ribot
- Guitar - Tom Waits
- Vocal - Tom Waits
# "Circus" – 3:56
- Chamberlain - Tom Waits
- Drums - Casey Waits
- Bells - Mark Howard
- Vocal - Tom Waits
# "Trampled Rose" – 3:58
- Cigar Box Banjo - Marc Ribot
- Bass - Larry Taylor
- Percussion - Brain
- Vocal - Tom Waits
# "Green Grass" – 3:13
- Bass - Larry Taylor
- Guitar - Tom Waits
- Vocal - Tom Waits
# "Baby Gonna Leave Me" – 4:29
- Bass - Les Claypool
- Guitar - Marc Ribot
- Percussion - Brain
- Shakers - Tom Waits
- Vocal - Tom Waits
# "Clang Boom Steam" – 0:46
- Vocal - Tom Waits
# "Make It Rain" – 3:39
- Bass - Larry Taylor
- Drums - Casey Waits
- Guitar - Marc Ribot
- Vocal - Tom Waits
# "Day After Tomorrow" – 6:56
- Bass - Larry Taylor
- Guitar - Marc Ribot
- Guitar - Tom Waits
- Vocal - Tom Waits
# "Chickaboom" – 1:17 (hidden track)
- Brain – Percussion , claps
- Les Claypool – bass
- Harry Cody – Guitar , Banjo
- Mark Howard – bells, claps
- Marc Ribot – guitar, banjo, Cigar Box Banjo
- Larry Taylor – bass, guitar
- Casey Waits – Drums , turntables, percussion, claps
- Tom Waits – Vocals , guitar, Chamberlain , percussion, shakers
- Trisha Wilson – claps
- Casey Waits is Tom's son.
- Tom Waits has described the song "Day After Tomorrow" as an "elliptical" Protest Song against the Iraq War
- ''Real Gone'' is the only Tom Waits album to completely lack piano.
- Chosen by the editors of '' Harp Magazine '' as the best album of 2004.
- The song "Don't Go Into That Barn" draws its source from a real-life rural slave jail, in which slaves were kept.
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