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T-Bone Burnett

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The Resume

    (January 14, 1948- )
    Born in St. Louis, Missouri
    Birth name was Joseph Henry Burnett III
    Guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and producer
    Member of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue (1975-76) and the Alpha Band (1976-78)
    Recorded the albums ‘Truth Decay’ (1980), ‘Proof Through the Night’ (1983), ‘T-Bone Burnett’ (1983), ‘The Criminal Under My Own Hat’ (1992), ‘The True False Identity’ (2006) and ‘A Place at the Table’ (2013)
    Produced records by Elvis Costello, Roy Orbison, the BoDeans, Sam Phillips, Bruce Cockburn, Kris Kirstofferson, the Wallflowers, Counting Crows, Tony Bennett and k.d. lang, Willie Nelson, Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, John Mellencamp, Marshall Crenshaw, Cassandra Wilson, Brandi Carlisle, B.B. King, Elton John and Leon Russell, the Chieftains, Natalie Merchant, Los Lobos, Steve Earle, Diana Krall, the Secret Sisters, Lisa Marie Presley, and Spinal Tap
    Composer and/or music producer for the films ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ (2001), ‘Cold Mountain’ (2003), ‘Walk the Line’ (2005), ‘Crazy Heart’ (2009), ‘The Hunger Games’ (2012) and ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ (2013)

Why he might be annoying:

    His first contribution to the music biz was drumming (and occasionally yelping the title) on the Legendary Stardust Cowboy’s incoherent ‘Paralyzed.’
    He converted Bob Dylan to Christianity, making him indirectly responsible for two of the dullest albums of Dylan’s career (‘Slow Train Coming’ and ‘Saved’).
    He divorced singer/songwriter Sam Phillips.
    His own albums tend to be critically successful, but commercial duds.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He created Code, a high-fidelity audio standard intended to ‘do for music what THX did for movie theater sound: set standards that ensure the best possible quality.’
    He produced two albums that won the Album of the Year Grammy, the ‘Oh Brother Where Art Thou?’ soundtrack (2002) and Alison Krauss and Robert Plant’s ‘Raising Sand’ (2009), and won a Grammy for Producer of the Year (2002).
    He won an Oscar for Best Song for ‘The Weary Kind’ from the movie ‘Crazy Heart’ (2009).
    Robert Plant said of his approach, ‘His guidance and otherworldliness is just fantastic. There was never even one tiny droplet of irony or short temper.’

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying