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Tooth of Crime is an album by T Bone Burnett. The album is a selection of music written by Burnett for the 1996 production of Sam Shepard's play The Tooth of Crime.
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The play is set in a vaguely described science fiction future dominated by "The Game," a conflation of rock music and violenceplayed by "Markers" under the direction of "The Keepers." Hoss has struggled to become the top Marker, only to find himself doubting his own abilities in the face of opposition from "Gypsies" who operate outside of the offic...
Hoss – The world's top Marker, he is worried that the younger Gypsies are aiming to usurp his position. He often takes on the dialects of past myths, such as a Western gunfighter, a 1920s gangster,...Crow – An upstart Gypsie Marker seeking to dethrone Hoss. He constantly speaks in a stylish, newfangled dialect. He is described as looking like The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards.Becky Lou– Hoss's girlfriend/manager.Star-Man – An astrologerwho advises Hoss.The Tooth of Crime was first performed at the Open Space, Londonon July 17, 1972. The cast included: 1. Hoss – Malcolm Storry 2. Becky Lou – Petronella Ford 3. Star-Man – Michael Weller 4. Galactic Jack – Tony Milner 5. Cheyenne – Tony Sibbalt 6. Doc – John Grillo 7. Crow – Dave Schofield 8. Directed by Charles Marowitz. Shepard originally wrote th...
Mustazza, Leonard (1989). "In the Old Style: The Tragic Vision in Sam Shepard's The Tooth of Crime". Text and Performance Quarterly. Vol. 9, no. 4. pp. 277–285. doi:10.1080/10462938909365939.Gilman, Richard. (1984) Introduction. Seven Playsby Sam Shepard. New York: Bantam.- Jules Aaron, Sam Shepard
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The Tooth of Crime. work by Shepard. Learn about this topic in these articles: American drama. In American literature: The Off-Broadway ascendancy. Shepard’s earlier work, such as The Tooth of Crime (1972), was rooted both in the rock scene and counterculture of the 1960s and in the mythic world of the American West.
Released. 1999 — Europe. CD —. Album. Explore the tracklist, credits, statistics, and more for Tooth Of Crime by T Bone Burnett. Compare versions and buy on Discogs.
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These songs originated in a 1996 re-staging of Sam Shepard's Tooth of Crime and evolved over a decade into this dark, atmospheric disc, which Variety calls "as smart and distinct as his production on top-shelf albums." Among Burnett's co-conspirators are singer Sam Phillips, guitarist Marc Ribot, multi-instrumentalist Jon Brion, and Shepard ...
Sam Phillips croons alongside Burnett on Dope Island, but any romantic solace is undermined by the post-apocalyptic imagery of the lyrics, which teeter on the brink of melodrama here and on The Rat Age.
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Dive deep into Sam Shepard's The Tooth of Crime with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion.
