Tom Waits

vocal, piano, arranger, guitar, producer, electric guitar, percussion, chamberlin, reed organ, organ, drums, acoustic guitar, performer, calliope, electronic organ, mellotron, banjo, harmonium, handclaps, toy piano, bells, video appearance, grand piano, rhythm sticks, Hammond organ, congas, synthesizer, sampler, misc, tambourine, guitars, tabla, farfisa, double bass, marimba

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Top collaborators

Artist name Roles Recordings
Larry Taylor (US bassist) acoustic guitar, bass, double bass, electric bass guitar, electric guitar, guitar 16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, A Little Rain, All Stripped Down, All the World Is Green, Another Man’s Vine, Big Black Mariah, Black Wings, Blind Love, Cemetery Polka, Chicago, Cold Cold Ground, Coney Island Baby, Day After Tomorrow, Dead and Lovely, Diamonds & Gold, Dirt in the Ground, Don't Go Into That Barn, Down, Down, Down, Downtown, Earth Died Screaming, Everything You Can Think, Filipino Box Spring Hog, Frank's Wild Years, Get Lost, Gin Soaked Boy, God’s Away on Business, Goin' Out West, Green Grass, Hang Down Your Head, Heartattack and Vine, How's It Gonna End, I Don’t Wanna Grow Up, In Shades, In the Colosseum, In the Neighborhood, Jesus Gonna Be Here, Jockey Full of Bourbon, Knife Chase, Make It Rain, Metropolitan Glide, Midtown (instrumental), Misery Is the River of the World, Mr. Siegal, Murder in the Red Barn, Rain Dogs, Raised Right Men, Shake It, Shore Leave, Singapore, Sins of My Father, Starving in the Belly of a Whale, Straight to the Top (Rhumba), Swordfishtrombone, That Feel, Time, Top of the Hill, Train Song, Trampled Rose, Trouble's Braids, Underground, Union Square, Walking Spanish, Who Are You, Yesterday Is Here, ’Til the Money Runs Out
Dayton “Bones” Howe engineer, producer, sound $29.00, (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night, (Looking for) the Heart of Saturday Night, A Sight for Sore Eyes, A Sweet Little Bullet From a Pretty Blue Gun, Bad Liver and a Broken Heart (in Lowell), Barber Shop, Blue Valentines, Burma‐Shave, Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis, Cinny’s Waltz, Depot, Depot, Diamonds on My Windshield, Downtown, Drunk on the Moon, Foreign Affair, Fumblin’ With the Blues, Grapefruit Moon, Heartattack and Vine, I Can’t Wait to Get Off Work (and See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue), I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward), In Shades, Invitation to the Blues, Jersey Girl, Jitterbug Boy (Sharing a Curbstone With Chuck E. Weiss, Robert Marchese, Paul Body and the Mug and Artie), Kentucky Avenue, Martha, Medley: Jack & Neal / California, Here I Come, Mr. Siegal, Muriel, New Coat of Paint, On the Nickel, Pasties and a G‐String (at the Two O’Clock Club), Please Call Me, Baby, Potter's Field, Potter’s Field, Red Shoes by the Drugstore, Romeo Is Bleeding, Ruby’s Arms, San Diego Serenade, Saving All My Love for You, Semi Suite, Shiver Me Timbers, Small Change, Small Change (Got Rained On With His Own .38), Somewhere (From “West Side Story”), Step Right Up, The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone’s Pizza House), The One That Got Away, The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening With Pete King), Tom Traubert's Blues, Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen), Whistlin’ Past the Graveyard, Wrong Side of the Road, ’Til the Money Runs Out
Greg Cohen arranger, instrument arranger, producer, bass, bass pedals, double bass, horn, tenor horn / alto horn 'T 'Ain't No Sin, 9th & Hennepin, Blow Wind Blow, Broken Bicycles, Carnival, Crossroads, Flash Pan Hunter, Flash Pan Hunter (intro), Gospel Train, Gun Street Girl, Hang on St. Christopher, I Beg Your Pardon, Innocent When You Dream (Barroom), Interlude, It's All Right With Me, I’ll Be Gone, I’ll Take New York, Jersey Girl, Johnsburg, Illinois, Just the Right Bullets, Little Boy Blue, More Than Rain, November, Please Wake Me Up, Presents, Rain Dogs, Rainbirds, Ruby’s Arms, Soldier's Things, Straight to the Top (Rhumba), Straight to the Top (Vegas), Swordfishtrombone, Tango Till They’re Sore, Tango Till They’re Sore (live), Telephone Call From Istanbul, Temptation, The Black Rider, The Last Rose of Summer, Train Song, Way Down in the Hole, What Keeps Mankind Alive, You Can't Unring a Bell
Biff Dawes mix, recording, remixer 16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six, All Stripped Down, Black Wings, Cold Cold Ground, Dave the Butcher, Dirt in the Ground, Down, Down, Down, Earth Died Screaming, Falling Down, Filipino Box Spring Hog, Frank's Wild Years, Gin Soaked Boy, Goin' Out West, Gun Street Girl, I Don’t Wanna Grow Up, In the Colosseum, In the Neighborhood, Jesus Gonna Be Here, Johnsburg, Illinois, Just Another Sucker on the Vine, Let Me Get Up on It, Murder in the Red Barn, Rain Dogs, Rainbirds, Shore Leave, Soldier's Things, Strange Weather, Such a Scream, Swordfishtrombone, Telephone Call From Istanbul, That Feel, The Ocean Doesn't Want Me, Town With No Cheer, Train Song, Trouble's Braids, Underground, Way Down in the Hole, Who Are You, Yesterday Is Here
Marc Ribot banjo, guitar, guitars Baby Gonna Leave Me, Back in the Crowd, Bad as Me, Cemetery Polka, Chicago, Clap Hands, Day After Tomorrow, Dead and Lovely, Diamonds & Gold, Face to the Highway, Get Lost, Hang Down Your Head, Hang on St. Christopher, Hell Broke Luce, Hoist That Rag, Jockey Full of Bourbon, Last Leaf, Make It Rain, Pay Me, Rain Dogs, Raised Right Men, Satisfied, Singapore, Sins of My Father, Talking at the Same Time, Tango Till They’re Sore (live), Telephone Call From Istanbul, Temptation, Top of the Hill, Trampled Rose, Way Down in the Hole

Collaborators on this artist's recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
Larry Taylor (US bassist) acoustic guitar, bass, double bass, electric bass guitar, electric guitar, guitar 16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, A Little Rain, All Stripped Down, All the World Is Green, Another Man’s Vine, Big Black Mariah, Black Wings, Blind Love, Cemetery Polka, Chicago, Cold Cold Ground, Coney Island Baby, Day After Tomorrow, Dead and Lovely, Diamonds & Gold, Dirt in the Ground, Don't Go Into That Barn, Down, Down, Down, Downtown, Earth Died Screaming, Everything You Can Think, Filipino Box Spring Hog, Frank's Wild Years, Get Lost, Gin Soaked Boy, God’s Away on Business, Goin' Out West, Green Grass, Hang Down Your Head, Heartattack and Vine, How's It Gonna End, I Don’t Wanna Grow Up, In Shades, In the Colosseum, In the Neighborhood, Jesus Gonna Be Here, Jockey Full of Bourbon, Knife Chase, Make It Rain, Metropolitan Glide, Midtown (instrumental), Misery Is the River of the World, Mr. Siegal, Murder in the Red Barn, Rain Dogs, Raised Right Men, Shake It, Shore Leave, Singapore, Sins of My Father, Starving in the Belly of a Whale, Straight to the Top (Rhumba), Swordfishtrombone, That Feel, Time, Top of the Hill, Train Song, Trampled Rose, Trouble's Braids, Underground, Union Square, Walking Spanish, Who Are You, Yesterday Is Here, ’Til the Money Runs Out
Dayton “Bones” Howe engineer, producer, sound $29.00, (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night, (Looking for) the Heart of Saturday Night, A Sight for Sore Eyes, A Sweet Little Bullet From a Pretty Blue Gun, Bad Liver and a Broken Heart (in Lowell), Barber Shop, Blue Valentines, Burma‐Shave, Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis, Cinny’s Waltz, Depot, Depot, Diamonds on My Windshield, Downtown, Drunk on the Moon, Foreign Affair, Fumblin’ With the Blues, Grapefruit Moon, Heartattack and Vine, I Can’t Wait to Get Off Work (and See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue), I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward), In Shades, Invitation to the Blues, Jersey Girl, Jitterbug Boy (Sharing a Curbstone With Chuck E. Weiss, Robert Marchese, Paul Body and the Mug and Artie), Kentucky Avenue, Martha, Medley: Jack & Neal / California, Here I Come, Mr. Siegal, Muriel, New Coat of Paint, On the Nickel, Pasties and a G‐String (at the Two O’Clock Club), Please Call Me, Baby, Potter's Field, Potter’s Field, Red Shoes by the Drugstore, Romeo Is Bleeding, Ruby’s Arms, San Diego Serenade, Saving All My Love for You, Semi Suite, Shiver Me Timbers, Small Change, Small Change (Got Rained On With His Own .38), Somewhere (From “West Side Story”), Step Right Up, The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone’s Pizza House), The One That Got Away, The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening With Pete King), Tom Traubert's Blues, Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen), Whistlin’ Past the Graveyard, Wrong Side of the Road, ’Til the Money Runs Out
Greg Cohen arranger, instrument arranger, producer, bass, bass pedals, double bass, horn, tenor horn / alto horn 'T 'Ain't No Sin, 9th & Hennepin, Blow Wind Blow, Broken Bicycles, Carnival, Crossroads, Flash Pan Hunter, Flash Pan Hunter (intro), Gospel Train, Gun Street Girl, Hang on St. Christopher, I Beg Your Pardon, Innocent When You Dream (Barroom), Interlude, It's All Right With Me, I’ll Be Gone, I’ll Take New York, Jersey Girl, Johnsburg, Illinois, Just the Right Bullets, Little Boy Blue, More Than Rain, November, Please Wake Me Up, Presents, Rain Dogs, Rainbirds, Ruby’s Arms, Soldier's Things, Straight to the Top (Rhumba), Straight to the Top (Vegas), Swordfishtrombone, Tango Till They’re Sore, Tango Till They’re Sore (live), Telephone Call From Istanbul, Temptation, The Black Rider, The Last Rose of Summer, Train Song, Way Down in the Hole, What Keeps Mankind Alive, You Can't Unring a Bell
Biff Dawes mix, recording, remixer 16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six, All Stripped Down, Black Wings, Cold Cold Ground, Dave the Butcher, Dirt in the Ground, Down, Down, Down, Earth Died Screaming, Falling Down, Filipino Box Spring Hog, Frank's Wild Years, Gin Soaked Boy, Goin' Out West, Gun Street Girl, I Don’t Wanna Grow Up, In the Colosseum, In the Neighborhood, Jesus Gonna Be Here, Johnsburg, Illinois, Just Another Sucker on the Vine, Let Me Get Up on It, Murder in the Red Barn, Rain Dogs, Rainbirds, Shore Leave, Soldier's Things, Strange Weather, Such a Scream, Swordfishtrombone, Telephone Call From Istanbul, That Feel, The Ocean Doesn't Want Me, Town With No Cheer, Train Song, Trouble's Braids, Underground, Way Down in the Hole, Who Are You, Yesterday Is Here
Marc Ribot banjo, guitar, guitars Baby Gonna Leave Me, Back in the Crowd, Bad as Me, Cemetery Polka, Chicago, Clap Hands, Day After Tomorrow, Dead and Lovely, Diamonds & Gold, Face to the Highway, Get Lost, Hang Down Your Head, Hang on St. Christopher, Hell Broke Luce, Hoist That Rag, Jockey Full of Bourbon, Last Leaf, Make It Rain, Pay Me, Rain Dogs, Raised Right Men, Satisfied, Singapore, Sins of My Father, Talking at the Same Time, Tango Till They’re Sore (live), Telephone Call From Istanbul, Temptation, Top of the Hill, Trampled Rose, Way Down in the Hole
Ralph Carney alto saxophone, baritone horn, bass clarinet, basset clarinet, clarinet, saxophone, tenor saxophone, violin 9th & Hennepin, Bride of Rain Dog (instrumental), Dirt in the Ground, Flash Pan Hunter, Gospel Train, Gospel Train (orchestra), Hang on St. Christopher, I'll Shoot the Moon, Innocent When You Dream (Barroom), I’ll Be Gone, I’ll Take New York, Jockey Full of Bourbon, Just the Right Bullets, Lucky Day, Lucky Day (overture), Midtown (instrumental), More Than Rain, Oily Night, Please Wake Me Up, Rain Dogs, Straight to the Top (Rhumba), Straight to the Top (Vegas), Such a Scream, Tango Till They’re Sore (live), Temptation, Union Square, Way Down in the Hole
Oz Fritz mix, recording A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Alice, All the World Is Green, Another Man’s Vine, Calliope, Coney Island Baby, Everything Goes to Hell, Everything You Can Think, Fawn, Fish & Bird, Flower’s Grave, God’s Away on Business, Knife Chase, Kommienezuspadt, Lost in the Harbour, Lullaby, Misery Is the River of the World, No One Knows I’m Gone, Poor Edward, Reeperbahn, Starving in the Belly of a Whale, Table Top Joe, The Part You Throw Away, Watch Her Disappear, We’re All Mad Here, Woe
Matt Brubeck bass, cello A Good Man Is Hard to Find, All the World Is Green, Black Box Theme, Coney Island Baby, Everything You Can Think, Fish & Bird, Flash Pan Hunter, Flower’s Grave, Gospel Train (orchestra), I'll Shoot the Moon, I’m Still Here, Just the Right Bullets, Kommienezuspadt, Lost in the Harbour, Lucky Day, Lucky Day (overture), Lullaby, No One Knows I’m Gone, Oily Night, Poor Edward, Russian Dance, Starving in the Belly of a Whale, The Part You Throw Away, Watch Her Disappear, Woe
Michael Blair (American drummer/producer/songwriter based in Sweden) congas, drums, glockenspiel, maracas, marimba, percussion, tubular bells 9th & Hennepin, Anywhere I Lay My Head, Blow Wind Blow, Bride of Rain Dog (instrumental), Cemetery Polka, Clap Hands, Diamonds & Gold, Downtown Train, Gun Street Girl, Hang Down Your Head, Hang on St. Christopher, I’ll Be Gone, I’ll Take New York, Jockey Full of Bourbon, More Than Rain, Rain Dogs, Singapore, Straight to the Top (Rhumba), Straight to the Top (Vegas), Tango Till They’re Sore (live), Telephone Call From Istanbul, Temptation, Union Square, Way Down in the Hole, What Keeps Mankind Alive
Tchad Blake mix, producer, recording All Stripped Down, Black Box Theme, Black Wings, Dirt in the Ground, Earth Died Screaming, Filipino Box Spring Hog, Flash Pan Hunter, Gospel Train, Gospel Train (orchestra), I'll Shoot the Moon, In the Colosseum, Just the Right Bullets, Let Me Get Up on It, Lucky Day, Lucky Day (overture), Murder in the Red Barn, Oily Night, Russian Dance, Such a Scream, Who Are You
Geoff Howe engineer (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night, A Sight for Sore Eyes, Barber Shop, Burma‐Shave, Cinny’s Waltz, Depot, Depot, Diamonds on My Windshield, Drunk on the Moon, Foreign Affair, Fumblin’ With the Blues, Medley: Jack & Neal / California, Here I Come, Muriel, New Coat of Paint, Please Call Me, Baby, Potter’s Field, San Diego Serenade, Semi Suite, Shiver Me Timbers, The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone’s Pizza House)
Jeff Lippay mix, recording 9th & Hennepin, Anywhere I Lay My Head, Big Black Mariah, Blind Love, Bride of Rain Dog (instrumental), Cemetery Polka, Clap Hands, Diamonds & Gold, Downtown Train, Gun Street Girl, Hang Down Your Head, Jockey Full of Bourbon, Midtown (instrumental), Rain Dogs, Singapore, Tango Till They’re Sore, Time, Union Square, Walking Spanish
Tony Gonzales mix 9th & Hennepin, Anywhere I Lay My Head, Big Black Mariah, Blind Love, Bride of Rain Dog (instrumental), Cemetery Polka, Clap Hands, Diamonds & Gold, Downtown Train, Gun Street Girl, Hang Down Your Head, Jockey Full of Bourbon, Midtown (instrumental), Rain Dogs, Singapore, Tango Till They’re Sore, Time, Union Square, Walking Spanish
Robert Musso engineer, mix, recording, banjo 9th & Hennepin, Anywhere I Lay My Head, Big Black Mariah, Blind Love, Bride of Rain Dog (instrumental), Cemetery Polka, Clap Hands, Diamonds & Gold, Gun Street Girl, Hang Down Your Head, Jockey Full of Bourbon, Midtown (instrumental), Rain Dogs, Singapore, Tango Till They’re Sore, Time, Union Square, Walking Spanish, What Keeps Mankind Alive
Dennis Ferrante recording 9th & Hennepin, Anywhere I Lay My Head, Big Black Mariah, Blind Love, Bride of Rain Dog (instrumental), Cemetery Polka, Clap Hands, Diamonds & Gold, Downtown Train, Gun Street Girl, Hang Down Your Head, Jockey Full of Bourbon, Midtown (instrumental), Rain Dogs, Singapore, Tango Till They’re Sore, Time, Union Square, Walking Spanish
Stephen Taylor Arvizu Hodges bass drum, cymbals, drums, glass harmonica 16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six, Big Black Mariah, Blind Love, Cemetery Polka, Clap Hands, Down, Down, Down, Gin Soaked Boy, In the Neighborhood, Jockey Full of Bourbon, Midtown (instrumental), Rain Dogs, Rainbirds, Shore Leave, Singapore, Tango Till They’re Sore (live), Trouble's Braids, Underground, Walking Spanish
Bob Alcivar arranger, conductor, instrument arranger (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night, Burma‐Shave, Depot, Depot, Diamonds on My Windshield, Drunk on the Moon, Fumblin’ With the Blues, New Coat of Paint, On the Nickel, Please Call Me, Baby, Potter's Field, Presents, San Diego Serenade, Saving All My Love for You, Semi Suite, Shiver Me Timbers, The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone’s Pizza House)
Mark Howard (producer/recording engineer) mix, recording A-Chick-a-Boom, Baby Gonna Leave Me, Circus, Clang Boom Steam, Day After Tomorrow, Dead and Lovely, Don't Go Into That Barn, Green Grass, Hoist That Rag, How's It Gonna End, Make It Rain, Metropolitan Glide, Shake It, Sins of My Father, Top of the Hill, Trampled Rose
Casey Waits drums, percussion, turntable(s) Back in the Crowd, Bad as Me, Chicago, Circus, Dead and Lovely, Don't Go Into That Barn, Face to the Highway, Get Lost, Hell Broke Luce, Hoist That Rag, Knife Chase, Make It Rain, Metropolitan Glide, Raised Right Men, Satisfied, Top of the Hill
Jerry Yester arranger, conductor, instrument arranger, producer Closing Time, Grapefruit Moon, I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love With You, I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward), Ice Cream Man, Little Trip to Heaven (on the Wings of Your Love), Lonely, Martha, Midnight Lullaby, Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards), Ol’ ’55, Rosie, Ruby’s Arms, Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen), Virginia Avenue
Jim Hughart bass, double bass (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night, Depot, Depot, Diamonds on My Windshield, Drunk on the Moon, Fumblin’ With the Blues, New Coat of Paint, Please Call Me, Baby, Romeo Is Bleeding, San Diego Serenade, Saving All My Love for You, Semi Suite, Shiver Me Timbers, The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone’s Pizza House), Wrong Side of the Road
Dawn Harms Stroh violin, violin, violins A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Barcarolle, Face to the Highway, Fish & Bird, Flower’s Grave, I’m Still Here, Lost in the Harbour, Lullaby, No One Knows I’m Gone, Poor Edward, Starving in the Belly of a Whale, The Part You Throw Away, Watch Her Disappear, Woe
Jesse Ehrlich cello Closing Time, Grapefruit Moon, I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love With You, I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward), Ice Cream Man, Little Trip to Heaven (on the Wings of Your Love), Lonely, Martha, Midnight Lullaby, Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards), Ol’ ’55, Rosie, Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen), Virginia Avenue
Gerd Bessler producer, recording, viola 'T 'Ain't No Sin, Black Box Theme, Carnival, Crossroads, Flash Pan Hunter (intro), Gospel Train, Interlude, Lost in the Harbour, November, That's the Way, The Black Rider, The Briar and the Rose, The Last Rose of Summer
Joe Marquez engineer, mix, recording, banjo, rhythm sticks A Little Rain, Black Box Theme, Earth Died Screaming, Flash Pan Hunter, Gospel Train (orchestra), I'll Shoot the Moon, Just the Right Bullets, Lucky Day, Lucky Day (overture), Murder in the Red Barn, Oily Night, Russian Dance, Whistle Down the Wind
Joe Gore banjo, electric guitar, guitar, guitars All Stripped Down, Black Box Theme, Black Wings, Flash Pan Hunter, God’s Away on Business, Goin' Out West, Gospel Train (orchestra), I'll Shoot the Moon, Just the Right Bullets, Lucky Day, Lucky Day (overture), Oily Night
Bill Goodwin (jazz drummer) drums (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night, Depot, Depot, Diamonds on My Windshield, Drunk on the Moon, Fumblin’ With the Blues, New Coat of Paint, Please Call Me, Baby, San Diego Serenade, Semi Suite, Shiver Me Timbers, The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone’s Pizza House)
Pete Christlieb tenor saxophone (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night, Depot, Depot, Diamonds on My Windshield, Drunk on the Moon, Fumblin’ With the Blues, New Coat of Paint, Please Call Me, Baby, San Diego Serenade, Semi Suite, Shiver Me Timbers, The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone’s Pizza House)
Victor Feldman (jazz musician) Hammond organ, bass drum, bells, chimes, congas, drums, glockenspiel, marimba, percussion, shakers, snare drum, talking drum, tambourine, timpani 16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six, Dave the Butcher, Down, Down, Down, In the Neighborhood, Jersey Girl, Saving All My Love for You, Shore Leave, Swordfishtrombone, Trouble's Braids, Underground, You Can't Unring a Bell
Francis Thumm arranger, glass harmonica, organ, percussion, prepared piano, reed organ Blow Wind Blow, Flash Pan Hunter, I'll Shoot the Moon, In the Neighborhood, Johnsburg, Illinois, Just the Right Bullets, More Than Rain, Rainbirds, Shore Leave, Underground
David Hidalgo vocal, accordion, bass, fiddle, guitar, guitars, percussion, violin Back in the Crowd, Cold Cold Ground, Face to the Highway, Filipino Box Spring Hog, Get Lost, New Year’s Eve, Pay Me, Talking at the Same Time, Train Song, Whistle Down the Wind
Bryan "Brain" Mantia drums, percussion Baby Gonna Leave Me, Don't Go Into That Barn, Hoist That Rag, In the Colosseum, Metropolitan Glide, Shake It, Sins of My Father, Such a Scream, Top of the Hill, Trampled Rose
Bill Douglass (bassist and bamboo flutist) bass Black Box Theme, Flash Pan Hunter, Gospel Train, Gospel Train (orchestra), I'll Shoot the Moon, Just the Right Bullets, Lucky Day, Lucky Day (overture), Oily Night
Colin Stetson alto saxophone, baritone horn, baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet, saxophone, tenor saxophone Alice, All the World Is Green, Another Man’s Vine, Coney Island Baby, Everything Goes to Hell, God’s Away on Business, Knife Chase, Starving in the Belly of a Whale, The Part You Throw Away
Mike Melvoin electric piano, piano Better Off Without a Wife, Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac With Susan Michelson), Emotional Weather Report, Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street), On a Foggy Night, Putnam County, Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission), Spare Parts II and Closing, Warm Beer and Cold Women
Gino Robair bells, bongos, drums, gongs, marimba, percussion, timpani, vibraphone Alice, Everything Goes to Hell, Face to the Highway, Misery Is the River of the World, Pay Me, Satisfied, Starving in the Belly of a Whale, Talking at the Same Time
Roland Bautista 12 string guitar, electric guitar $29.00, Downtown, In Shades, Jersey Girl, Mr. Siegal, Red Shoes by the Drugstore, Ruby’s Arms, ’Til the Money Runs Out
William Schimmel accordion, bass pedals, piano, reed organ Hang on St. Christopher, Innocent When You Dream (Barroom), I’ll Be Gone, I’ll Take New York, More Than Rain, Straight to the Top (Rhumba), Straight to the Top (Vegas), What Keeps Mankind Alive
Kenny Wollesen percussion Black Box Theme, Flash Pan Hunter, Gospel Train (orchestra), I'll Shoot the Moon, Just the Right Bullets, Lucky Day, Lucky Day (overture), Oily Night
Keith Richards (Rolling Stones guitarist) vocal, guitar Big Black Mariah, Blind Love, Chicago, Hell Broke Luce, Last Leaf, Satisfied, That Feel, Union Square
Clint Maedgen baritone saxophone, saxophone, tenor saxophone Bad as Me, Chicago, Get Lost, Hell Broke Luce, New Year’s Eve, Satisfied, Talking at the Same Time
Charlie Musselwhite harmonica Bad as Me, Chicago, God’s Away on Business, Hell Broke Luce, Raised Right Men, Satisfied, Starving in the Belly of a Whale
John Thomassie drums Downtown, Heartattack and Vine, In Shades, Jersey Girl, Mr. Siegal, ’Til the Money Runs Out
S. "Husky" Höskulds mix Another Man’s Vine, Coney Island Baby, Everything Goes to Hell, God’s Away on Business, Misery Is the River of the World, Starving in the Belly of a Whale
Ronnie Barron Hammond organ, organ, piano Downtown, Frank's Wild Years, In Shades, Little Boy Blue, Mr. Siegal, ’Til the Money Runs Out
Dante DeSole engineer, mix Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Coda: Tom Waits With High Strings, Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Tramp With Orchestra I (string quartet), Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Tramp With Orchestra II (low strings), Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Tramp With Orchestra III (no strings), Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Tramp With Orchestra IV (full strings), Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Tramp and Tom Waits With Full Orchestra
Michael Riesman conductor Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Coda: Tom Waits With High Strings, Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Tramp With Orchestra I (string quartet), Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Tramp With Orchestra II (low strings), Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Tramp With Orchestra III (no strings), Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Tramp With Orchestra IV (full strings), Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Tramp and Tom Waits With Full Orchestra
Chris Ekers (engineer) engineer, mix Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Coda: Tom Waits With High Strings, Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Tramp With Orchestra I (string quartet), Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Tramp With Orchestra II (low strings), Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Tramp With Orchestra III (no strings), Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Tramp With Orchestra IV (full strings), Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Tramp and Tom Waits With Full Orchestra
Benjamin Jaffe bass clarinet, trombone, tuba Chicago, Get Lost, Hell Broke Luce, New Year’s Eve, Talking at the Same Time
Bebe Risenfors Stroh violin, accordion, bass clarinet, clarinet, saxophone A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Everything Goes to Hell, Everything You Can Think, Knife Chase, Misery Is the River of the World
Larry Rhodes bassoon Black Box Theme, Flash Pan Hunter, Gospel Train (orchestra), Just the Right Bullets, Oily Night
Uptown Horns arranger, brass Anywhere I Lay My Head, Big Black Mariah, Hang Down Your Head, Midtown (instrumental), Rain Dogs
Les Claypool bass, electric bass guitar Baby Gonna Leave Me, Earth Died Screaming, Hoist That Rag, Satisfied, Shake It
James Whiton double bass Back in the Crowd, Face to the Highway, Last Leaf, Pay Me, Talking at the Same Time
Bob Funk (trombonist) horn, trombone Anywhere I Lay My Head, Cemetery Polka, Rain Dogs, Tango Till They’re Sore, What Keeps Mankind Alive
Patrick Warren keyboard Face to the Highway, Get Lost, New Year’s Eve, Satisfied, Talking at the Same Time
Jaquire King mix, recording Barcarolle, Flower’s Grave, I’m Still Here, Lost in the Harbour
Volker Hemken clarinet Flash Pan Hunter (intro), Interlude, That's the Way, The Briar and the Rose
Ara Anderson trumpet A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Alice, Coney Island Baby, Knife Chase
Kevin Porter trombone Gospel Train (orchestra), I'll Shoot the Moon, Lucky Day (overture), Oily Night
Carla Kihlstedt violin Fawn, Lost in the Harbour, Reeperbahn, We’re All Mad Here
Nick Phelps French horn Black Box Theme, Gospel Train (orchestra), Lucky Day (overture), Oily Night
Jacquire King recording Knife Chase, Lullaby, The Part You Throw Away, Woe
Moris Tepper guitar I’ll Be Gone, More Than Rain, Telephone Call From Istanbul, Temptation
Henning Stoll bassoon, viola Flash Pan Hunter (intro), Interlude, That's the Way, The Briar and the Rose
Kathleen Brennan producer, vocal arranger, rhythm sticks Earth Died Screaming, Temptation, The Fall of Troy, Walk Away
Fred Tackett banjo, electric guitar, guitar 16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six, Gin Soaked Boy, Shore Leave, Underground
Teddy Edwards (jazz saxophonist) tenor saxophone I Beg Your Pardon
Don Neely musical saw Black Box Theme, Flash Pan Hunter, November
William Shimmel accordion Cemetery Polka, Rain Dogs, Time
Crispin Cioe baritone saxophone, horn, saxophone Anywhere I Lay My Head, Midtown (instrumental), What Keeps Mankind Alive
Nik Phelps French horn, trumpet, tuba Calliope, Everything You Can Think, God’s Away on Business
Ray Crawford guitar Blue Valentines, Romeo Is Bleeding, Wrong Side of the Road
Hollywood Paul Litteral horn, trumpet Anywhere I Lay My Head, Midtown (instrumental), What Keeps Mankind Alive
Stefan Schäfer (double bass player and composer) bass Flash Pan Hunter (intro), That's the Way, The Briar and the Rose
Randy Aldcroft (trombonist) baritone horn, trombone In the Neighborhood, Shore Leave, Underground
Bent Clausen bells, drums, marimba All the World Is Green, Everything You Can Think, Knife Chase
David Phillips (techno/prog house producer and DJ from Germany) pedal steel guitar, steel guitar A Little Rain, That Feel, Whistle Down the Wind
Linda Deluca viola Gospel Train (orchestra), Oily Night, Russian Dance
Arno Hecht horn, tenor horn / alto horn Anywhere I Lay My Head, Midtown (instrumental), What Keeps Mankind Alive
George Duke electric piano $29.00, Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis, Red Shoes by the Drugstore
Pete Jolly celesta, piano Broken Bicycles, I Beg Your Pardon, Presents
Augie Meyers accordion, electronic organ, piano Pay Me, Raised Right Men, Talking at the Same Time
Chris Grady trumpet Hell Broke Luce, New Year’s Eve, Talking at the Same Time
Edgar Lustgarten cello I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward), Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
Marvin Limonick violin I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward), Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
Kathleen Lustgarten cello I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward), Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
Joe Romano (trumpet,flute,trombone) trombone, trumpet 16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six, Just Another Sucker on the Vine
Murray Adler violin I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward), Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
Nathan Kaproff violin I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward), Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
Nathan Ross violin I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward), Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
Herb Hardesty tenor saxophone A Sweet Little Bullet From a Pretty Blue Gun, Whistlin’ Past the Graveyard
Harry Cody guitar Don't Go Into That Barn, Metropolitan Glide
Harry Bluestone violin I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward), Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
Harold Battiste piano A Sweet Little Bullet From a Pretty Blue Gun, Whistlin’ Past the Graveyard
Hans-Jörn Brandenburg organ That's the Way, The Briar and the Rose
George Kast violin I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward), Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
Gayle Levant harp I Beg Your Pardon, Presents
Frank Vicari tenor saxophone Romeo Is Bleeding, Wrong Side of the Road
Flea (US bassist) bass Hell Broke Luce, Raised Right Men
Raymond Kelley cello I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward), Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
Ricky Lawson drums $29.00, Red Shoes by the Drugstore
Mark "Mooka" Rennick recording Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Coda: Tom Waits With High Strings, Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Tramp and Tom Waits With Full Orchestra
Robert Quine guitar Blind Love, Downtown Train
Earl Palmer drums A Sweet Little Bullet From a Pretty Blue Gun, Whistlin’ Past the Graveyard
David Schwartz (violist) viola I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward), Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
Chip White drums Romeo Is Bleeding, Wrong Side of the Road
Samuel Boghossian viola I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward), Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
Scott Edwards (Bassist) bass A Sweet Little Bullet From a Pretty Blue Gun, Whistlin’ Past the Graveyard
Sheldon Sanov violin I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward), Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
Charles Kynard organ Romeo Is Bleeding, Wrong Side of the Road
Byron Miller bass $29.00, Red Shoes by the Drugstore
Andrew Borger marimba A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Another Man’s Vine
Alvin Robinson guitar A Sweet Little Bullet From a Pretty Blue Gun, Whistlin’ Past the Graveyard
Allan Harshman viola I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward), Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
Alfred Lustgarten violin I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward), Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
Will Bernard guitar Hell Broke Luce, Pay Me
Israel Baker violin I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward), Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
Leslie Holland vocal Way Down in the Hole
Lynne Jordan vocal Way Down in the Hole
Gene Cipriano clarinet Potter’s Field
Marcus Shelby double bass Kiss Me
Gene Cornelius recording Lowside of the Road
Angela Brown vocal Way Down in the Hole
Anthony Terran trumpet Closing Time
Matthew Sperry bass Everything Goes to Hell
Chris Spedding guitar Singapore
Mickey Curry drums Downtown Train
Mike Lang (American pianist and composer) piano On the Nickel
Chris Walden arranger, conductor In The Neighbourhood
Christoph Moinian French horn Interlude
Clark Spangler programming Town With No Cheer
Myles Boisen guitar Knife Chase
Jack Sheldon trumpet I Beg Your Pardon
Plas Johnson baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone Heartattack and Vine
Bill Reichenbach, Jr. (jazz trombonist) trombone In the Neighborhood
Jay Anderson (jazz bassist) bass Please Wake Me Up
Richard Gibbs glass harmonica Rainbirds
Robbie Kilgore organ Downtown Train
Dick Hyde trombone In the Neighborhood
Bobby Previte marimba, percussion Clap Hands
Joe Blaney mix That Feel
Don Plonsey clarinet Everything Goes to Hell
Ross Levinson violins Blind Love
Bobbye Hall congas Romeo Is Bleeding
Joe Porcaro glockenspiel Presents
Eddie Davis (banjo player) banjo What Keeps Mankind Alive
John Lurie alto saxophone Walking Spanish
Emil Richards vibraphone I Beg Your Pardon
Stewart Copeland drums God’s Away on Business
Eric Bikales organ Down, Down, Down
The Devil's Rhubato Band arranger The Briar and the Rose
The London Session Orchestra performing orchestra In The Neighbourhood
Tim Boyle recording Frank's Wild Years
Tom Baker (mastering engineer) mastering Return of Jackie and Judy
Tony Garnier double bass Clap Hands
Eric Perney bass Alice
Tony Levin (US rock bassist/chapman stick) bass Downtown Train
Allen Sudduth recording Knife Chase
Kirsty MacColl performer It's All Right With Me
Waddy Wachtel guitar That Feel
Carlos Guitarlos electric guitar Down, Down, Down
William S. Burroughs vocal 'T 'Ain't No Sin
Amy Dickson saxophone In The Neighbourhood
G.E. Smith guitar Downtown Train
Zack Sumner bass New Year’s Eve
infraBuse remixer What's He Building? (infraBuse remix)
Árni Egilsson bass Closing Time

Work on other artists' recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
John Hammond vocal, acoustic guitar, guitar, handclaps, piano 'Til the Money Runs Out, 16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought Six, Big Black Mariah, Buzz Fledderjohn, Clap Hands, Fannin Street, Get Behind the Mule, Heartattack and Vine, I Know I've Been Changed, Jockey Full of Bourbon, Murder in the Red Barn, Shore Leave
Gavin Bryars performer, vocal Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet (feat. Tom Waits), Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet, Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (Single Remix) (feat. Tom Waits), Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (feat. Tom Waits), Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (single remix)
Ekhart Topp vocal, piano Opening Montage: Tom's Piano Intro / Once Upon a Town / The Wages of Love, Picking Up After You, Take Me Home, This One's From the Heart
Teddy Edwards vocal, guitar I'm Not Your Fool Anymore, Little Man
Sparklehorse vocal, piano Dog Door, Morning Hollow
Primus vocal, mellotron Coattails of a Dead Man / The Heckler, Tommy the Cat
Richie Cole vocal Waitin' for Waits
Sonic Youth video appearance Teenage Riot
Dunkan vocal Go Tell It on the Mountain
Swamp Zen vocal, grand piano Spacious Thoughts
Anne Cammas vocal I Never Talk to Strangers
Atmosphere vocal The Waitress
Thelonious Monster vocal Adios Lounge (feat. Tom Waits)
Traineater vocal Pray
William Earl Branch vocal Going Fetal
Симфонический оркестр Якутского радио и телевидения performer I'll Tell You Why That Is
木村竜蔵 vocal, guitar Louise
殺(KILL) vocal, guitar Old Time Feelin'
Bonnie Raitt vocal Your Sweet and Shiny Eyes
Bruce Springsteen vocal Jersey Girl
Dave Brenner vocal Shenandoah