Trap Door is an EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 by T-Bone Burnett

T-Bone Burnett

Joseph Henry Burnett , widely known as T-Bone Burnett, is an American musician, songwriter, and soundtrack and record producer.He was a guitarist in Bob Dylan's band on the Rolling Thunder Revue...

, released in 1982. It was his first release on the Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Records

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 label after leaving Takoma Records

Takoma Records

Takoma Records was a small but influential record label founded by John Fahey in the late 1950s.. It was named after Fahey's hometown, the Washington, D.C. suburb of Takoma Park, Maryland.-History:...

.

Although the EP is out of print, all the songs were reissued on CD by Rhino Handmade

Rhino Entertainment

Rhino Entertainment Company is an American specialty record label and production company. It is owned by Warner Music Group.-History:Rhino was originally a novelty song and reissue company during the 1970s and 1980s, releasing compilation albums of pop, rock & roll, and rhythm & blues successes...

 on March 27, 2007. The double CD also includes the Behind the Trap Door

Behind the Trap Door

Behind the Trap Door is an EP by T-Bone Burnett, released in 1984.Behind the Trap Door features collaborations with Bono, Bob Neuwirth, and Richard Thompson. In the liner notes, Burnett states: "I was just starting to come out of a dark personal time, and was working these things out of my system....

EP and Proof Through the Night

Proof Through the Night

Proof Through the Night is a 1983 album by T-Bone Burnett. Proof Through the Night was not available on CD for many years, though some tracks appeared on the 20/20 career compilation in May 2006. Rhino Handmade issued a CD version of the album on March 27, 2007, which also includes the Trap Door...

, and was issued in a numbered limited edition of 5,000.

Track listing

All tracks composed by T-Bone Burnett; except where indicated

1. "Hold on Tight"
2. "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
   Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
   "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" is a song introduced by Carol Channing in the original Broadway production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes , which was written by Jule Styne and Leo Robin...
   
   " (Jule Styne
   Jule Styne
   Jule Styne was a British-born American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.-Early life:...
   
   , Leo Robin
   Leo Robin
   Leo Robin was an American composer, lyricist and songwriter. He is probably best known for collaborating with Ralph Rainger on the 1938 Oscar-winning song "Thanks for the Memory," sung by Bob Hope in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938.-Biography:Robin was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and...
   
   )
3. "I Wish You Could Have Seen Her Dance"
4. "A Ridiculous Man"
5. "Poetry"
6. "Trap Door"

Personnel

• T-Bone Burnett – vocals, guitar
• David Kemper
  David Kemper
  David Kemper is a drummer. He was a long-time member of both the Jerry Garcia Band and Bob Dylan's band . He was with the Jerry Garcia Band for the last eleven years of Garcia's life...
  
   – drums
• David Mansfield
  David Mansfield
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   – guitar
• David Miner
  David Miner (musician)
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   – bass
• Mark Saffan – vocals
• Charles Duncan – vocals
• Tommy Funderburk – vocals
• Steven Soles
  Steven Soles
  Steven Soles is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and guitarist.Known also as J. Steven Soles, he was asked by Bob Dylan to join the band for his 1975-1976 "Rolling Thunder Revue" tour, and he also played with Dylan on Street Legal and the following tour, including the live album Bob...
  
   – vocals
• Billy Swan
  Billy Swan
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   – vocals

Production

• Produced by Reggie Fisher
  Reggie Fisher
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  and T-Bone Burnett
• Mixed and Engineered by Reggie Fisher and Geoff Gillette
• Mastered by Bernie Grunman