Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years

Tracklist

• 1
  Hang on St. Christopher
  2:44
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Temptation
  3:53
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Clap Hands
  3:48
  3.8 ★
• 4
  The Black Rider
  3:23
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Underground
  1:59
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Jockey Full of Bourbon
  2:47
  3.8 ★
• 7
  Earth Died Screaming
  3:38
  3.6 ★
• 8
  Innocent When You Dream
  3:09
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Straight to the Top
  2:28
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Frank’s Wild Years
  1:52
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Singapore
  2:45
  4.2 ★
• 12
  Shore Leave
  4:18
  4.5 ★
• 13
  Johnsburg, Illinois
  1:34
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Way Down in the Hole
  3:30
  4.6 ★
• 15
  Strange Weather (live)
  3:34
• 16
  Cold, Cold Ground (live)
  3:27
• 17
  November
  2:55
  4.0 ★
• 18
  Downtown Train
  3:51
  4.2 ★
• 19
  16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought Six
  4:33
  4.5 ★
• 20
  Jesus Gonna Be Here
  3:19
  3.5 ★
• 21
  Good Old World (waltz)
  3:55
• 22
  I Don’t Wanna Grow Up
  2:32
  5.0 ★
• 23
  Time
  3:53
  3.5 ★

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Release credits

• Angela Brown
  background vocals [14]
• Biff Dawes
  engineer [1-2, 8-9, 14], mix [1-2, 5, 8-10, 12-14, 19-22], recording [5, 7, 12-13, 15-16, 19-22], remixer [15-16]
• Bobby Previte
  marimba [3], percussion [3]
• Chris Spedding
  guitar [11]
• Danny Leake
  engineer [1-2, 8-9, 14]
• Dennis Ferrante
  assistant [3, 6, 11, 18, 23]
• Don Neely
  musical saw [17]
• Francis Thumm
  arranger [5, 13], percussion [12]
• Fred Tackett
  banjo [12], electric guitar [5, 19], guitar [12]
• G.E. Smith
  guitar [18]
• Gerd Bessler
  producer [4, 17], recording [4, 17]
• Greg Cohen
  accordion [17], arranger [4], banjo [4], bass [2, 4, 13-14, 17], bass pedals [9], horn [1-2], percussion [4], tenor horn / alto horn [1], viola [4]
• Jeff Lippay
  assistant [3, 6, 11, 18, 23], mix [18], recording [18]
• Joe Marquez
  assistant [21], rhythm sticks [7]
• Joe Romano
  trombone [19]
• Kathleen Brennan
  percussion [22], producer [15-16], rhythm sticks [7], vocal arranger [2]
• Larry Taylor
  bass [5, 10, 12, 19], double bass [6-7, 9, 11, 22-23], guitar [20]
• Les Claypool
  electric bass guitar [7]
• Leslie Holland
  background vocals [14]
• Lynne Jordan
  background vocals [14]
• Marc Ribot
  guitar [1-3, 6, 11, 14]
• Michael Blair
  congas [2, 6, 9], drums (drum set) [1], maracas [2], marimba [3], percussion [2-3, 6, 11, 14, 18]
• Mickey Curry
  drums (drum set) [18]
• Moris Tepper
  guitar [2]
• Ralph Carney
  saxophone [2, 6, 9, 14], tenor saxophone [1]
• Randy Aldcroft
  baritone horn [5], trombone [12]
• Robbie Kilgore
  organ [18]
• Robert Musso
  engineer [3, 6, 11, 23], mix [3, 6, 11, 23]
• Robert Quine
  guest [18], guitar [18]
• Ronnie Barron
  Hammond organ [10]
• Shawn Morris
  engineer [7, 20, 22]
• Stephen Taylor Arvizu Hodges
  drums (drum set) [3, 5-6, 11-12, 19]
• Tchad Blake
  mix [7]
• Tim Boyle
  recording [10]
• Tom Waits
  arranger [3-4, 6, 10-12, 17-19, 23], banjo [17], chamberlin [7], congas [9], double bass [20], electronic organ [2, 9], guitar [2-3, 6-7, 18, 22-23], lead vocals [3, 6, 11, 18, 23], organ [4], percussion [7], piano [13, 17], producer [1-3, 5-16, 18-23], rhythm sticks [7], vocal [1-2, 4-5, 7, 9-10, 12-14, 17, 19-22]
• Tony Garnier
  double bass [3]
• Tony Gonzales
  assistant [3, 6, 11, 18, 23]
• Tony Levin
  bass [18]
• Victor Feldman
  bass drum [12], drums (drum set) [19], marimba [5, 12], percussion [19], shakers [12], snare drum [19]
• William Schimmel
  bass pedals [1], reed organ [9]
• William Shimmel
  accordion [23]
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Issues

• 

  B
  Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years

  CD
  15 June 1998
• B
  Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years

  CD
  16 June 1998
• 

  B
  Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years

  CD
  1998
• 

  B
  Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years

  CD (made in Germany by EDC)