Label: Island
Reissued 10/6/2023, Originally released 1992
Originally released in 1992 on Island Records, Bone Machine is Tom Waits’ 11th studio album. 5 years after Franks Wild Years, Bone Machine is a return to studio albums for Tom Waits. The album features David Hidalgo, Les Claypool, Brain and Keith Richards and won a GRAMMY for Best Alternative Music Album. Bone Machine is rather pointedly otherworldly… another edge pusher – his most poetically and sonically daring work yet. Writing again with his longtime collaborator and wife, Kathleen Brennan, Waits acknowledges writing ‘darker’ material saying “A great many songs live there, so that’s where I’ve been digging lately.” Newly remastered for the first time ever from the original ½” flat master tape and personally overseen by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan. Mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering under the guidance of Waits’ longtime audio engineer, Karl Derfler. The album packaging has also been restored. Bone Machine includes tracks such as “Goin’ Out West,” “I Don’t Wanna Grow Up” and “Jesus Gonna Be Here.” Available on 180g black vinyl.
Track listing:
- Earth Died Screaming
- Dirt In The Ground
- Such A Scream
- All Stripped Down
- Who Are You
- The Ocean Doesn't Want Me
- Jesus Gonna Be Here
- A Little Rain
- In The Colosseum
- Goin' Out West
- Murder In The Red Barn
- Black Wings
- Whistle Down The Wind
- I Don't Wanna Grow Up
- Let Me Get Up On It
- That Feel