Bone Machine

Bone Machine is the eleventh <a href="/facts/Studio_album/WFW6z2fj">studio album</a> by American singer and musician <a href="/facts/Tom_Waits/wfYeN4Ql">Tom Waits</a>, released by <a href="/facts/Island_Records/p59XgBjo">Island Records</a> on September 8, 1992. It won a <a href="/facts/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Alternative_Music_Album/wUK67nYA">Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album</a> and features guest appearances by <a href="/facts/David_Hidalgo/909BIrxK">David Hidalgo</a>, <a href="/facts/Les_Claypool/e00dzMbM">Les Claypool</a>, <a href="/facts/Bryan_Mantia/fDfLTC8A">Brain</a>, and <a href="/facts/Keith_Richards/2KfBSNAA">Keith Richards</a>. The album marked Waits' return to studio albums, coming five years after <a href="/facts/Franks_Wild_Years/wdr8q5NB">Franks Wild Years</a> (1987).
Recorded in a room in the cellar area of Prairie Sun Recording studios, described by Waits as "just a cement floor and a hot water heater", the album is often noted for its rough, stripped-down, percussion-heavy style, as well as its dark lyrical themes revolving around death and decay. The album cover—a blurry, black-and-white, close-up image of Waits screaming while wearing a horned skullcap and protective goggles—was taken by filmmaker <a href="/facts/Jesse_Dylan/wvHjlreb">Jesse Dylan</a>, son of <a href="/facts/Bob_Dylan/WcaUqWBj">Bob Dylan</a>. The photo is taken from a freeze frame of the Dylan and <a href="/facts/Jim_Jarmusch/He6fvUAe">Jim Jarmusch</a> directed video for "Goin' Out West". They also directed a video for "I Don't Wanna Grow Up". Bone Machine won the <a href="/facts/Grammy_Award/2bxYJjPV">Grammy</a> for <a href="/facts/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Alternative_Music_Album/wUK67nYA">Best Alternative Music Album</a>.

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Bone Machine