Come to Where I'm From

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Metacritic	83/100[1]
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AllMusic	[2]
Pitchfork	7.4/10[3]

Come to Where I'm From is the second studio album by Joseph Arthur, released by Real World Records on April 11, 2000. The album was co-produced by T-Bone Burnett, and features the singles "Chemical" and "In the Sun". Arthur said, "I wanted to get the songs down in a way that was true to them and true to myself. I really wanted them to have humanity in them. I wanted an element of a gamble in it. I think too much music sounds too contained. I wanted it to sound like it could go out of control at any minute. I didn't want it produced to death."^[4]

Real World Records reissued the album in July 2012, as a part of their Real World Gold series.^[5]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Joseph Arthur.

Rusty Water

On March 11, 1999, a promo CD titled Rusty Water was released via Virgin Records. The CD featured 13 tracks, most of which would later be re-recorded, edited, and remixed to become Come to Where I'm From. As this was not the official finalized release, few promos were made.

1. "Crawlin' on Bones" (a.k.a. "Cockroach") – 3:04
2. "In the Sun" (Early Version) – 5:24
3. "Exhausted" (Early Version) – 4:03
4. "History" – 5:37
5. "Chemical" – 4:06
6. "Cocaine Blind" – 3:17
7. "Freeze You Out" – 4:30
8. "Tattoo" – 4:07
9. "Eyes on My Back" – 4:12
10. "In the Distance" – 3:24
11. "California" – 4:14
12. "Otherside" – 3:16
13. "Invisible Hands" – 5:26

Note

• The songs "Cocaine Blind" and "Otherside" (later renamed "The Other Side") appeared as B-sides to the "In the Sun" single. "California", "Freeze You Out", and "In the Distance" have not been released or re-recorded since this promo was issued.

Personnel

Musicians

• Joseph Arthur (as "Benzo") – guitar and vocals on all tracks.
• Carla Azar (as "Darkstar") – drums on tracks 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12; background vocals on track 6; shaker on track 8.
• T-Bone Burnett (as "Yodaclaus") – piano on track 6.
• Markus Dravs (as "Luvclaw") – programming on tracks 4 and 7.
• Eugene Kelly (as "Eugene") – "Fuzzheart" on track 11.
• Ben Findlay (as "Spiralchugger") – additional acoustic guitar on track 4.
• Nadia Lanman (as "Queenchina") – cello on track 1.
• Jim Keltner (as "Nighttime") – drums on track 5.
• Stella Katsoudas (as "Siren") – background vocals on track 1.
• Rick Will (as "Lovehammer") – "explosions" on track 5; synthesizer on tracks 7 and 9; "kooky shit" on track 11.^[6]

Production and design

• Produced by T-Bone Burnett, Joseph Arthur and Rick Will.
• Mixed by Rick Will, except:
  • Tracks 1, 5 and 12 mixed by Tchad Blake.
• Engineered by Rick Will.
• Additional engineering by Ben Findlay.
• Assistant engineering by Nick Raskulinecz and Kevin Dean Marek.
• Recorded at Sound City, Sunset Sound and Real World Studios.
• Mastered by Stephen Marcussen at A&M Mastering.
• Album cover drawings and paintings by Joseph Arthur.
• Booklet photography by Anton Corbijn.
• Art direction and design by Zachary James Larner with Joseph Arthur at Bombshelter NYC.

References

External links

• Come to Where I'm From EPK