# Tooth of Crime

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***Tooth of Crime*** is an album by [T Bone Burnett](/source/T_Bone_Burnett). The album is a selection of music written by Burnett for the 1996 production of [Sam Shepard](/source/Sam_Shepard)'s play *[The Tooth of Crime](/source/The_Tooth_of_Crime)*.

## Reception

Music critic Mark Deming of [Allmusic](/source/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
1. "Dope Island" – 4:16
1. "The Slowdown" – 4:43
1. "Blind Man" – 1:22
1. "Kill Zone" – 4:19
1. "The Rat Age" – 5:30
1. "Swizzle Stick" – 5:10
1. "Telepresence (Make the Metal Scream)" – 3:06
1. "Here Come the Philistines" – 3:33
1. "Sweet Lullaby" – 3:24

## Personnel

- [T-Bone Burnett](/source/T-Bone_Burnett) – vocals, guitar, six-string bass, piano
- [Sam Phillips](/source/Sam_Phillips_(musician)) – vocals, backing vocals
- [Marc Ribot](/source/Marc_Ribot) – banjo, guitar
- [Greg Leisz](/source/Greg_Leisz) – steel guitar
- [Jon Brion](/source/Jon_Brion) – Chamberlin, baritone guitar
- [J. D. Foster](/source/J._D._Foster) – bass
- John E. Abbey – bass
- [Sim Cain](/source/Sim_Cain) – drums
- Jagoda – drums
- [Jim Keltner](/source/Jim_Keltner) – drums, percussion
- Joe Sublett – tenor saxophone
- Greg Smith – baritone saxophone, bass saxophone
- Ken Kugler – trombone, bass trombone, tuba
- [Darrell Leonard](/source/Darrell_Leonard) – trombonium, pocket trumpet
- Les Lovitt – flugelhorn
- [Dan Kelly](/source/Dan_Kelly_(horn_player)) – French horn
- Suzette Moriarty – French horn
- Kurt Snyder – French horn
- Miguel Ferrer – backing vocals
- Leslie Kahn – backing vocals
- David Poe – backing vocals[2]

**Production**

- T-Bone Burnett – producer
- [Mike Piersante](/source/Mike_Piersante) – engineer, mixing
- [Susan Rogers](/source/Susan_Rogers) – engineer, mixing
- Cappy Japange – assistant engineer
- [Emile Kelman](/source/Emile_Kelman) – assistant engineer
- [Gavin Lurssen](/source/Gavin_Lurssen) – mastering[2]

## References

1. Deming, Mark. "*Tooth of Crime* > Review". *[Allmusic](/source/Allmusic)*. Retrieved June 22, 2011.

1. ["Tooth of Crime - T-Bone Burnett | Credits | AllMusic"](http://www.allmusic.com/album/tooth-of-crime-mw0000080689/credits). *AllMusic*. Retrieved 20 July 2017.

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