Artist: T Bone Burnett
Genre(s):
Pop
Rock: Folk-Rock
Rock
Discography:
Proof Through the Night (Promo)
Year: 2007
Tracks: 11
Twenty Twenty: the Essential T-Bone Burnett CD2
Year: 2006
Tracks: 20
Twenty Twenty - The Essential T Bone Burnett CD1
Year: 2006
Tracks: 20
The True False Identity
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
The True False Identity
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
The Criminal Under My Own Hat
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
Truth Decay
Year: 1997
Tracks: 12
Behind the Trap Door
Year: 1994
Tracks: 6
Proof Through The Night
Year: 1983
Tracks: 11
Despite critical herald as a performing artist, the rootsy singer/songwriter T Bone Burnett earned his superlative celebrity as a producer, helming recording roger Huntington Sessions for acts ranging from Roy Orbison and Elvis Costello to Counting Crows and Sam Phillips. Born Joseph Henry Burnett on January 14, 1948, in St. Louis, MO, he grew up in Fort Worth, TX, soak in the area's autochthonic blend of blues, R&B, and Tex-Mex sounds. Instead of attention college, he opted to open his own Fort Worth recording studio apartment, patch besides playing in a series of blue devils bands; in the early '70s he relocated to Los Angeles, producing sessions for Glen Clark and Delbert McClinton.
Subsequently recording his have 1972 debut, The B-52 Band & the Fabulous Skylarks, Burnett toured with Delaney & Bonnie earlier befriending Bob Neuwirth, a singer/songwriter known for his ties to Bob Dylan. Three eld by and by, Dylan invited Burnett to play guitar on his Rolling Thunder Revue tour. After the Revue complete, he and comrade Rolling Thunder alumni Dave Mansfield and Steve Soles founded the Alpha Band, cathartic their eponymous debut in 1977. Spark in the Dark followed subsequently that year, and like its predecessor failed to find commercial favour; when 1978's Statue Makers of Hollywood met a similar destiny, the Alpha Band split, and Burnett returned to his solo vocation.
He resurfaced in 1980 with the acclaimed True statement Decay, which, like all of his solo sour, set up its lyrical center in his unearthly concerns. A move to Warner Bros. followed for 1982's Trap Door EP, and 1983's full-length Proof Through the Night featured guests Pete Townshend, Ry Cooder, and Richard Thompson. Still, commercial success eluded him, and so he continued running as a producer, overseeing highly regarded records like Los Lobos' How Will the Wolf Survive?, Marshall Crenshaw's Business district, and the BoDeans' Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams.
Subsequently recording a self-titled 1986 solo feat, Burnett in agreement to produce The Turning, an album for the successful Christian pop isaac Bashevis Singer Leslie Phillips. The album won wide hail regular from secular outposts, only it was to be Phillips' last overtly religious waiver; alternatively, she began playacting under her byname, Sam, and with Burnett's assist landed a deal with the Virgin label for 1987's acclaimed The Indescribable Wow. Prior to transcription her 1991 LP, Brutal Inventions, Phillips and Burnett wed, and he remained in the producer's seat for her afterwards efforts, including 1994's Martinis & Bikinis and 1996's Omnipop.
Despite his additional success manning albums like Elvis Costello's masterful 1986 endeavor Rex of America as well as producing the star-studded 1987 Roy Orbison tribute Black & White Night, Burnett continued his solo vocation; like earlier efforts, 1988's The Talking Animals won raves from the press only failed to find an audience outside of his devoted cult next. His output dwindled as his production work increased, and solely in 1992 did he release a review, the spartan Criminal Under My Own Hat. Instead, Burnett remained 1 of the almost prolific and typical producers of his 24-hour interval, crafting successes care Costello's Spike, Counting Crows' Revered and Everything After, the Wallflowers' Bringing Down the Horse, and Gillian Welch's Revival meeting.
Burnett's populace profile took a brobdingnagian leap in 2001 when he served as composer and music producer for the Coen Brothers' picture show O Brother, Where Art Thou? as well as producing the soundtrack album from the photographic film, which became slightly of a cultural phenomenon, marketing close to nine-spot meg copies and earning Burnett four Grammy awards. He partnered with the Coen Brothers to form DMZ Records in 2002, and the label has released several soundtrack albums either produced or executive produced by Burnett, including Cold Mountain, A Mighty Wind, Crossing Jordan, and The Ladykillers.
Frances Hodgson Burnett lastly released an album of unexampled original material, The True False Identity, in 2006 on Sony, which that same year likewise released a 40-song retrospective set spanning Burnett's entire career, XX Twenty: The Esssential T Bone Burnett.
