T-Bone Burnett
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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
. After that tour ended, Burnett and two other members of the backing band formed The Alpha Band
, followed by his first solo album in 1980.
Burnett has produced artists such as John Mellencamp
, Los Lobos
, Counting Crows
, Elton John
& Leon Russell
, Natalie Merchant
and The Wallflowers
as well as Tony Bennett
and k.d. lang
on the A Wonderful World
album. Burnett won Grammy Award
s for the O Brother, Where Art Thou?
soundtrack and for his work with Alison Krauss
and Robert Plant
. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his songwriting contribution to the film Cold Mountain
, and won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "The Weary Kind
" from Crazy Heart
.
He founded the record label DMZ, an imprint of Columbia
, and was involved with Mark Heard
and Tonio K
in the short-lived What? Records
. He also oversaw the music for the films Walk the Line
and The Big Lebowski
.
Burnett's songs have been covered by such artists as k.d. lang ("Till the Heart Caves In"), Los Lobos, Sixpence None the Richer
("Carry You"), Tonio K, Emmylou Harris
, Mark Heard
("Power of Love"), Arlo Guthrie
, Warren Zevon
, Peter Case
, and B. J. Thomas
.
in 1948, and raised in Fort Worth, Texas
. He attended R.L. Paschal High School, and is featured in the school's Hall of Honor. His first significant contribution to the music field was as the manic drummer for the Legendary Stardust Cowboy's novelty hit, "Paralyzed."
T-Bone first appeared on The Unwritten Works of Geoffrey, Etc. as part of the pseudonymous Whistler, Chaucer, Detroit and Greenhill, released in 1968 on Uni Records and on which he also produced and wrote 4 of the 11 tracks. Also, in 1968, he produced 6 songs for a group of friends, called at the time, "The Case Hardy Boys". Later this band would move to Los Angeles and become known first as "The Fare", and later as "El Roacho", and would have songs produced by T-Bone Burnett and Daniel Moore (who sang on T-Bone's most recent album), as well as Steve Katz. In 1972, he moved to Los Angeles and recorded his second album, The B-52 Band and the Fabulous Skylarks. In 1975 and 1976, he toured with Bob Dylan's
Rolling Thunder Revue
. When the Revue ended, Burnett and two other members of Dylan's band, David Mansfield
and Steven Soles
, formed The Alpha Band
, which released three albums. The Alpha Band and Spark in the Dark were both released in 1977, while The Statue Makers of Hollywood was released in 1978.
T-bone and singer-songwriter Sam Phillips were married in 1989 and divorced ten years later. He produced many of her albums, including Martinis and Bikinis
and Cruel Inventions
.
label. Truth Decay was a roots rock
album described by the Rolling Stone Record Guide as "mystic Christian blues".
In 1982, his Trap Door EP, (also produced by Reggie Fisher) and released on the Warner Brothers label, yielded the FM radio hit "I Wish You Could Have Seen Her Dance". Burnett toured after the release of Trap Door, opening several dates for The Who
, leading a band that featured Mick Ronson
on guitar.
His 1983 album Proof Through the Night
, whose song "When the Night Falls" got some FM airplay, and his 1987 album The Talking Animals
were more in the vein of 1980s new wave music
, while his self-titled 1986 album was an album of acoustic country music
. His 1992 album The Criminal Under My Own Hat
, tended toward adult album alternative
music. All were critically acclaimed but not big sellers commercially.
Proof Through the Night was reissued by Rhino Records' Handmade Music in a limited-edition of 5,000 on May 29, 2007, in an expanded version. The double CD also included the EPs Trap Door
and Behind the Trap Door
.
In 2006, Burnett released two albums. The True False Identity
was his first album of new songs since 1992, and Twenty Twenty – The Essential T-Bone Burnett was a 40-song career retrospective.
; Los Lobos' How Will the Wolf Survive?
; Elvis Costello
's King of America
and Spike
; the Wallflowers
' Bringing Down the Horse
; Marshall Crenshaw
's Downtown; Spinal Tap
's Break Like The Wind
; Gillian Welch
's Revival
and Hell Among the Yearlings
; David Poe's self-titled debut; the Roy Orbison
tribute A Black & White Night Live
; two albums for Bruce Cockburn
; and nearly everything released by his former wife, Sam Phillips, who has also performed under the name Leslie Phillips.
In 1985, Burnett collaborated with Elvis Costello on a single titled "The People's Limousine," using the moniker "The Coward Brothers."
In 1987, Burnett produced Roy Orbison's two-record album, In Dreams: The Greatest Hits
. After that, Burnett was
In 1997, Burnett created new songs for the Sam Shepard
play, The Tooth of Crime
: Second Dance, which premiered in New York City, during the same year in an off-Broadway production that featured Vincent D'Onofrio
and Kirk Acevedo
. A CD of these songs, Tooth of Crime
, was released in May 2008, featuring guitarist Marc Ribot
and backing vocals by Sam Phillips and singer/songwriter David Poe, whose self-titled debut Burnett also produced that year. According to Burnett, he was inspired by the music of Skip James
, while composing the songs for the updated version of Shepard's play.
In April 2006, he announced that his first concert tour in nearly two decades would begin on May 16 in Chicago
at The Vic Theater
. Around the same time, jazz singer Cassandra Wilson
released an album of blues songs, Thunderbird
(2006), which was produced by Burnett. He also wrote one of the album's songs and co-wrote another with Ethan Coen. Burnett also produced music for the remake of the film All the King's Men
.
In 2006, Burnett produced Brandi Carlile
's The Story
album, the title song of which became a minor hit and was featured on a special broadcast of ABC-TV's Grey's Anatomy
. Carlile's guitarist and bassist, twins Tim and Phil Hanseroth, respectively, used instruments from Burnett's private collection during the unique "live" recordings in Vancouver, B.C.
In early 2007, Burnett earned nominations for two 2006 Grammy Awards, one as Producer of the Year for his work on Cassandra Wilson's Thunderbird album, the soundtrack to Walk the Line and his own The True False Identity. Walk the Line was nominated for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. Burnett earned another nomination for his efforts as Executive Music Producer and Album Producer on that soundtrack.
In October 2007, the Grammy-winning, Burnett-produced Raising Sand
, a collaborative album featuring Alison Krauss and Robert Plant was released. Burnett plays guitar on ten of the 13 tracks.
In early 2008, Pete Townshend
announced that Burnett was to go into the studio that fall to help produce an all covers album for The Who
. However, on a May 15, 2008, episode of the NPR radio show, All Songs Considered, Burnett threw that project into question. He stated that in a blog, Townshend had indicated that he was putting all his projects on hold.
In 2008, it was reported that Burnett "started a new venture called Code, which aims to do for music what THX did for movie-theater sound: set standards that ensure the best possible quality." He is opposed to the trend of brighter and more compressed processing, sufficiently so, that he essentially retired from the music business around 1995–1996 and pursued an opportunity to work in theater with Sam Shepard, leading to his work on several films.
The audio format known as Code, involves the simultaneous release of multiple sound formats, thus avoiding much of the processing which happens when sound is converted from one format to another. Burnett produced John Mellencamp
's album Life, Death, Love and Freedom
, which was the first Code album when it was released on July 15, 2008. Burnett also produced Mellencamp's follow-up to Life, Death, Love and Freedom, titled No Better Than This
.
In 2009, Burnett produced albums for Moonalice
and Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
.
In that same year, he also produced Elvis Costello's album, Secret, Profane & Sugarcane
as well as co-writing the song "Sulfur to Sugarcane" with Costello.
Burnett produced a collaboration album by Elton John
and Leon Russell
. John, Russell, and Bernie Taupin
(John's lyricist) wrote songs together in late 2009. The album, which is titled The Union, was recorded in January 2010 and released in October 2010.
In 2010 Burnett produced Gregg Allman
's “Low Country Blues” album (release date in January 2011).
Burnett has started production, as of January 2011, on Lisa Marie Presley
's as-yet untitled third album in Los Angeles. The album will be released late in 2011.
, for the movie The Thing Called Love
. He was the coach of Samantha Mathis
.
In 2000, Burnett produced the soundtrack
and wrote the score for the Coen Brothers
film, O Brother, Where Art Thou?. The award-winning soundtrack featured music from Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Ralph Stanley
, Gillian Welch, and others performing traditional American folk music
, blues
and bluegrass
— reminiscent of Burnett's 1986 self-titled release. The album was a hit, garnering numerous industry awards from the Grammys, Academy of Country Music
, and the Country Music Association
. The album was as much a commercial success as a critical one and has sold over seven million copies according to the Recording Industry Association of America
.
A documentary film
, Down from the Mountain
, was made of a benefit concert of the soundtrack performed by the artists on the album; Burnett figures prominently in the film. For producing the soundtrack albums for these two films, and for his wife Sam Phillips' Fan Dance
album, Burnett won the 2002 Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
. Burnett went on to produce the less popular gospel soundtrack to the Coen's The Ladykillers
.
In 2004, under his name "Henry Burnett", he wrote "I Wish My Baby Was Born", "Like a Songbird That Has Fallen", and "Scarlet Tide" for the movie Cold Mountain. "Scarlet Tide", co-written with Elvis Costello and performed by Alison Krauss, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song and won BAFTA's Anthony Asquith Award for Achievement in Film Music
.
In 2005, he composed the score for Wim Wenders
' film Don't Come Knocking
.
In 2005, he worked with actors Joaquin Phoenix
and Reese Witherspoon
for their singing roles as Johnny Cash
and June Carter Cash
in the film Walk the Line. Witherspoon won the Academy Award for Best Actress
for her role in the film, giving special thanks to Burnett in her speech for "helping her realize her lifelong dream of being a country music singer". He also produced that film's soundtrack album and wrote its score.
In 2009, Burnett collaborated on music for the movie Crazy Heart, winning a Golden Globe
, an Academy Award
, and a Grammy Award
for the song "The Weary Kind" that he composed with Ryan Bingham
. T-Bone was also a producer of the film, along with Jeff Bridges
and Robert Duvall
.
On March 7, 2010, Burnett and Ryan Bingham won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart.
to honor the finest in cinematic achievement. Burnett and Bingham won the award for writing "The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart.
.
for "The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart.
.
On February 27, 2002, Burnett won four Grammys for his work on the soundtrack to O Brother Where Art Thou, in the categories of Album of the Year
, Best Traditional Folk Album and Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. He was also awarded the Grammy as Producer of the Year, Non-Classical.
On February 23, 2003, Burnett won a Grammy in the category of Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
for his work on A Wonderful World
from Tony Bennett and k.d. lang.
On February 8, 2006, Burnett won a Grammy in the category of Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media, for his work on Walk The Line.
On February 8, 2009, Burnett was awarded Grammys for Album of the Year and Best Contemporary Folk Album for his work on the Robert Plant and Alison Krauss album, Raising Sand; Record of the Year for his work on "Please Read The Letter
", also from Raising Sand; and Best Traditional Blues Album for his work on B.B. King's One Kind Favor
.
On December 2, 2009, Burnett was nominated for a Grammy in the categories of Best Contemporary Folk Album and Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, for his work on Elvis Costello's Secret, Profane & Sugarcane.
On January 13, 2011, Burnett was awarded Grammys in the categories of Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media, for his work on Crazy Heart
, and Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media, along with Ryan Bingham
, for "The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart)"
.
, Rob Carliner and Judy Cairo, along with director Scott Cooper
, received Best First Feature
honors at the 25th Annual Independent Spirit Awards
.
, were awarded Best Music Score honors for their work on that film by The Los Angeles Film Critics Association
at their 35th Annual Awards Ceremony. Bruton died on May 9, 2009, shortly after completing work on the film.
in the category of Original Song for writing "The Weary Kind", from Crazy Heart, with Ryan Bingham.
Soundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...
and record producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
.
He was a guitarist in Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
's band on the Rolling Thunder Revue
Rolling Thunder Revue
The Rolling Thunder Revue was a famed U.S. concert tour consisting of a traveling caravan of musicians, headed by Bob Dylan, that took place in late 1975 and early 1976; the prevailing theory was that the tour was named after the Native American shaman Rolling Thunder. Others maintained that tour...
. After that tour ended, Burnett and two other members of the backing band formed The Alpha Band
The Alpha Band
The Alpha Band was a rock band formed in July 1976 from the remnants of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue. Band members were T-Bone Burnett, Steven Soles, and David Mansfield, plus sidemen who differed from record to record and included: David Kemper ; gospel great Andrae Crouch; and former Beatle...
, followed by his first solo album in 1980.
Burnett has produced artists such as John Mellencamp
John Mellencamp
John Mellencamp, previously known by the stage names Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, and John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American rock singer-songwriter, musician, painter and occasional actor known for his catchy, populist brand of heartland rock that eschews synthesizers and other artificial sounds...
, Los Lobos
Los Lobos
Los Lobos are a multiple Grammy Award–winning American Chicano rock band from East Los Angeles, California. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tex-Mex, country, folk, R&B, blues, brown-eyed soul, and traditional Spanish and Mexican music such as cumbia, boleros and norteños.-History:The...
, Counting Crows
Counting Crows
Counting Crows is an American rock band originating from Berkeley, California. Formed in 1991, the group gained popularity following the release of its debut album in 1993, August and Everything After, which featured the hit single "Mr. Jones"...
, Elton John
Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...
& Leon Russell
Leon Russell
Claude Russell Bridges , known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American musician and songwriter, who has recorded as a session musician, sideman, and maintained a solo career in music....
, Natalie Merchant
Natalie Merchant
Natalie Anne Merchant is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She joined the alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs in 1981 and left it to begin her solo career in 1993.-Early life:...
and The Wallflowers
The Wallflowers
The Wallflowers is a rock band from Los Angeles, California, fronted by Jakob Dylan. Formed in 1989 and originally known as The Apples, the ensemble has gone through numerous personnel changes with Dylan the only constant....
as well as Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz....
and k.d. lang
K.D. Lang
Kathryn Dawn Lang, OC , known by her stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress...
on the A Wonderful World
A Wonderful World
A Wonderful World is an album by Tony Bennett and k.d. lang, released in 2002.It later won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album...
album. Burnett won Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
s for the O Brother, Where Art Thou?
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a 2000 comedy film directed by Joel and Ethan Coen and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, and Charles Durning. Set in 1937 rural Mississippi during the Great Depression, the film's story is a modern satire loosely...
soundtrack and for his work with Alison Krauss
Alison Krauss
Alison Maria Krauss is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in...
and Robert Plant
Robert Plant
Robert Anthony Plant, CBE is an English singer and songwriter best known as the vocalist and lyricist of the iconic rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career...
. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his songwriting contribution to the film Cold Mountain
Cold Mountain (film)
Cold Mountain is a 2003 war drama film written and directed by Anthony Minghella. The film is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Charles Frazier...
, and won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "The Weary Kind
The Weary Kind
"The Weary Kind" is a country song written by Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett for the film Crazy Heart, a 2009 film directed by Scott Cooper starring Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Colin Farrell and Bridges perform renditions of the song in the film...
" from Crazy Heart
Crazy Heart
Crazy Heart is a 2009 American musical-drama film, written and directed by Scott Cooper and based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Thomas Cobb. Jeff Bridges plays a down-and-out country music singer-songwriter who tries to turn his life around after beginning a relationship with a young...
.
He founded the record label DMZ, an imprint of Columbia
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
, and was involved with Mark Heard
Mark Heard
John Mark Heard was a record producer, folk-rock singer, and songwriter originally from Macon, Georgia, USA....
and Tonio K
Tonio K
Tonio K. is an American singer/songwriter who has released eight albums. His songs have been recorded by Al Green, Aaron Neville, Burt Bacharach, Bonnie Raitt, Chicago, Wynonna Judd and Vanessa Williams...
in the short-lived What? Records
What? Records
What? Records was a short-lived record label started by Word Records and A&M Records, intended to focus on creative and unusual rock and roll records with spiritual messages....
. He also oversaw the music for the films Walk the Line
Walk the Line
Walk the Line is a 2005 American biographical drama film directed by James Mangold and based on the early life and career of country music artist Johnny Cash...
and The Big Lebowski
The Big Lebowski
The Big Lebowski is a 1998 comedy film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Jeff Bridges stars as Jeff Lebowski, an unemployed Los Angeles slacker and avid bowler, who is referred to as "The Dude". After a case of mistaken identity, The Dude is introduced to a millionaire also named...
.
Burnett's songs have been covered by such artists as k.d. lang ("Till the Heart Caves In"), Los Lobos, Sixpence None the Richer
Sixpence None the Richer
Sixpence None the Richer is an American rock/pop band that formed in New Braunfels, Texas, eventually settling in Nashville, Tennessee. They are best known for their songs "Kiss Me" and "Breathe Your Name" and their covers of "Don't Dream It's Over" and "There She Goes". The name of the band is...
("Carry You"), Tonio K, Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including...
, Mark Heard
Mark Heard
John Mark Heard was a record producer, folk-rock singer, and songwriter originally from Macon, Georgia, USA....
("Power of Love"), Arlo Guthrie
Arlo Guthrie
Arlo Davy Guthrie is an American folk singer. Like his father, Woody Guthrie, Arlo often sings songs of protest against social injustice...
, Warren Zevon
Warren Zevon
Warren William Zevon was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician noted for including his sometimes sardonic opinions of life in his musical lyrics, composing songs that were sometimes humorous and often had political or historical themes.Zevon's work has often been praised by well-known...
, Peter Case
Peter Case
Peter Case is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, who has had a wide-ranging career ranging from new wave music to folk rock to solo acoustic performance.-Early career:...
, and B. J. Thomas
B. J. Thomas
Billy Joe "B. J." Thomas is an American popular singer known for his chart-topping hits in the 1960s and 1970s—appearing on the pop, adult contemporary, country and Hot 100 charts.-Career:...
.
Early life and musical career
Burnett was born in St. Louis, MissouriSt. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...
in 1948, and raised in Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. Located in North Central Texas, just southeast of the Texas Panhandle, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly in Tarrant, Parker, Denton, and...
. He attended R.L. Paschal High School, and is featured in the school's Hall of Honor. His first significant contribution to the music field was as the manic drummer for the Legendary Stardust Cowboy's novelty hit, "Paralyzed."
T-Bone first appeared on The Unwritten Works of Geoffrey, Etc. as part of the pseudonymous Whistler, Chaucer, Detroit and Greenhill, released in 1968 on Uni Records and on which he also produced and wrote 4 of the 11 tracks. Also, in 1968, he produced 6 songs for a group of friends, called at the time, "The Case Hardy Boys". Later this band would move to Los Angeles and become known first as "The Fare", and later as "El Roacho", and would have songs produced by T-Bone Burnett and Daniel Moore (who sang on T-Bone's most recent album), as well as Steve Katz. In 1972, he moved to Los Angeles and recorded his second album, The B-52 Band and the Fabulous Skylarks. In 1975 and 1976, he toured with Bob Dylan's
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
Rolling Thunder Revue
Rolling Thunder Revue
The Rolling Thunder Revue was a famed U.S. concert tour consisting of a traveling caravan of musicians, headed by Bob Dylan, that took place in late 1975 and early 1976; the prevailing theory was that the tour was named after the Native American shaman Rolling Thunder. Others maintained that tour...
. When the Revue ended, Burnett and two other members of Dylan's band, David Mansfield
David Mansfield
David Mansfield is an American violinist, mandolin player, guitarist, pedal steel guitar player, and composer....
and 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...
, formed The Alpha Band
The Alpha Band
The Alpha Band was a rock band formed in July 1976 from the remnants of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue. Band members were T-Bone Burnett, Steven Soles, and David Mansfield, plus sidemen who differed from record to record and included: David Kemper ; gospel great Andrae Crouch; and former Beatle...
, which released three albums. The Alpha Band and Spark in the Dark were both released in 1977, while The Statue Makers of Hollywood was released in 1978.
T-bone and singer-songwriter Sam Phillips were married in 1989 and divorced ten years later. He produced many of her albums, including Martinis and Bikinis
Martinis and Bikinis
Martinis and Bikinis is the seventh album from American singer-songwriter Sam Phillips.The photographs included in this album's artwork reportedly led to Phillips' role as a mute terrorist in the film, Die Hard with a Vengeance....
and Cruel Inventions
Cruel Inventions
Cruel Inventions is the sixth album from American singer-songwriter Sam Phillips.-Track listing:All songs by Sam Phillips.# "Lying" – 3:52# "Go Down" – 3:38# "Cruel Inventions" – 3:00# "Standing Still" – 3:10...
.
Solo career
In 1980, Burnett released his first post-Alpha Band solo album, Truth Decay, produced by Reggie Fisher, on the Takoma RecordsTakoma 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:...
label. Truth Decay was a roots rock
Roots rock
Roots rock is a term now used to describe rock music that looks back to rock's origins in folk, blues and country music. It is particularly associated with the creation of hybrid sub-genres from the later 1960s including country rock and Southern rock, which have been seen as responses to the...
album described by the Rolling Stone Record Guide as "mystic Christian blues".
In 1982, his Trap Door EP, (also produced by Reggie Fisher) and released on the Warner Brothers label, yielded the FM radio hit "I Wish You Could Have Seen Her Dance". Burnett toured after the release of Trap Door, opening several dates for The Who
The Who
The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey , Pete Townshend , John Entwistle and Keith Moon . They became known for energetic live performances which often included instrument destruction...
, leading a band that featured Mick Ronson
Mick Ronson
Michael "Mick" Ronson was an English guitarist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and producer. He is best known for his work with David Bowie, as one of The Spiders from Mars...
on guitar.
His 1983 album 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...
, whose song "When the Night Falls" got some FM airplay, and his 1987 album The Talking Animals
The Talking Animals
-Side one:#"The Wild Truth" – 3:38#"Monkey Dance" – 4:43#"Image" – 4:02#"Dance, Dance, Dance" – 2:45#"The Killer Moon" – 5:00-Side two:#"Relentless" – 3:24#"Euromad" – 4:21#"Purple Heart" – 4:36...
were more in the vein of 1980s new wave music
New Wave music
New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...
, while his self-titled 1986 album was an album of acoustic country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
. His 1992 album The Criminal Under My Own Hat
The Criminal Under My Own Hat
-Track listing:All tracks written by T-Bone Burnett; except where indicated# "Over You" – 2:20# "Tear This Building Down" – 4:37# "It's Not Too Late" – 4:26# "Humans from Earth" – 2:48# "Primitives" – 3:15...
, tended toward adult album alternative
Adult album alternative
Adult album alternative is a radio format. A spinoff from the album-oriented rock format, its roots trace to the 1960s and 1970s from the earlier freeform and progressive formats....
music. All were critically acclaimed but not big sellers commercially.
Proof Through the Night was reissued by Rhino Records' Handmade Music in a limited-edition of 5,000 on May 29, 2007, in an expanded version. The double CD also included the EPs Trap Door
Trap Door (EP)
Trap Door is an EP by T-Bone Burnett, released in 1982. It was his first release on the Warner Bros. label after leaving Takoma Records.Although the EP is out of print, all the songs were reissued on CD by Rhino Handmade on March 27, 2007...
and 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....
.
In 2006, Burnett released two albums. The True False Identity
The True False Identity
The True False Identity is an album by T-Bone Burnett, released in 2006.-Track listing:All tracks composed by T-Bone Burnett; except where indicated# "Zombieland" – 5:57# "Palestine Texas" – 4:47# "Seven Times Hotter Than Fire" – 4:41...
was his first album of new songs since 1992, and Twenty Twenty – The Essential T-Bone Burnett was a 40-song career retrospective.
Production and other professional activities
Burnett has become best known as a music producer. He began producing albums for artists such as Counting Crows' August and Everything AfterAugust and Everything After
August and Everything After is the first commercially released album of the American rock band Counting Crows, released September 14, 1993....
; Los Lobos' How Will the Wolf Survive?
How Will the Wolf Survive?
How Will the Wolf Survive? is the major label debut album of Los Lobos. In 1989, it was ranked #30 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s...
; Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello , born Declan Patrick MacManus, is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader...
's King of America
King of America
King of America is the tenth studio album by the British rock singer and songwriter Elvis Costello, released in 1986 in the United Kingdom as F-Beat ZL 70946, and in the United States as Columbia JC 40173. It was billed as by "The Costello Show featuring the Attractions and Confederates" in the UK...
and Spike
Spike (Elvis Costello album)
Spike is the 12th studio album by the British rock singer and songwriter Elvis Costello, released on and compact disc as Warner Brothers 25848. It was his first album for the label. It peaked at #5 on the UK album chart, and at #32 on the Billboard 200....
; the Wallflowers
The Wallflowers
The Wallflowers is a rock band from Los Angeles, California, fronted by Jakob Dylan. Formed in 1989 and originally known as The Apples, the ensemble has gone through numerous personnel changes with Dylan the only constant....
' Bringing Down the Horse
Bringing Down the Horse
Bringing Down the Horse is the second album of The Wallflowers, which was released in 1996. It contains hits such as "One Headlight," "6th Avenue Heartache," "Three Marlenas," and "The Difference." "One Headlight" was the band's most popular single, reaching #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock,...
; Marshall Crenshaw
Marshall Crenshaw
Marshall Crenshaw is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist best known for his song "Someday, Someway".-Biography:...
's Downtown; Spinal Tap
Spinal Tap (band)
Spinal Tap is a parody heavy metal band that first appeared on a failed 1979 ABC TV sketch comedy pilot called "The T.V. Show", starring Rob Reiner...
's Break Like The Wind
Break Like the Wind
Break Like the Wind is an album by the semi-fictional band Spinal Tap. The title, from the album's title track, is a double entendre that combines and confuses the idiom "make like the wind [and blow]" with "break[ing] wind" , and samples the classical guitar piece Concierto de Aranjuez by Rodrigo...
; Gillian Welch
Gillian Welch
Gillian Welch is an American singer-songwriter. She performs with her musical partner, guitarist David Rawlings. Their sparse and dark musical style, which combines elements of Appalachian music, Bluegrass, and Americana, is described by The New Yorker as "at once innovative and obliquely...
's Revival
Revival (Gillian Welch album)
Revival is the first album by Gillian Welch, released in 1996.The plant described in the song, "Acony Bell" appears to be Shortia galacifolia, also known as the Oconee bells...
and Hell Among the Yearlings
Hell Among the Yearlings
Hell Among the Yearlings is the second album by Gillian Welch, released in 1998. All the songs on the album are written by Welch and David Rawlings....
; David Poe's self-titled debut; the Roy Orbison
Roy Orbison
Roy Kelton Orbison was an American singer-songwriter, well known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly/country & western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis...
tribute A Black & White Night Live
A Black & White Night Live
A Black & White Night Live is a Roy Orbison music album made posthumously by Virgin Records from the HBO television broadcast, Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night. The album was released in 1989 and included the songs "Blue Bayou" and "Claudette" that because of time constraints had...
; two albums for Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Douglas Cockburn OC is a Canadian folk/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. His most recent album was released in March 2011. He has written songs in styles ranging from folk to jazz-influenced rock to rock and roll.-Biography:...
; and nearly everything released by his former wife, Sam Phillips, who has also performed under the name Leslie Phillips.
In 1985, Burnett collaborated with Elvis Costello on a single titled "The People's Limousine," using the moniker "The Coward Brothers."
In 1987, Burnett produced Roy Orbison's two-record album, In Dreams: The Greatest Hits
In Dreams: The Greatest Hits
In Dreams: The Greatest Hits is a music album of Roy Orbison songs released in 1987 on Virgin Records. The two-record set was produced by Roy Orbison and Mike Utley except for the song "In Dreams" which was produced by Orbison with T Bone Burnett and film director, David Lynch...
. After that, Burnett was
In 1997, Burnett created new songs for the Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard is an American playwright, actor, and television and film director. He is the author of several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child...
play, The Tooth of Crime
The Tooth of Crime
The Tooth of Crime is a musical play written by Sam Shepard which made its premiere in London's Open Space Theatre on July 17, 1972. It tells the story of aging rock singer Hoss, doing battle with rival Crow.-Plot:...
: Second Dance, which premiered in New York City, during the same year in an off-Broadway production that featured Vincent D'Onofrio
Vincent D'Onofrio
Vincent Phillip D'Onofrio is an American actor, director, film producer, writer, and singer. Often referred to as an actor's actor, his work as a character actor has earned him the nickname of "Human Chameleon"...
and Kirk Acevedo
Kirk Acevedo
Kirk Acevedo is an American actor. He is primarily known for his portrayals of Miguel Alvarez in the HBO series Oz, Joe Toye in Band of Brothers and FBI Agent Charlie Francis in the science-fiction series Fringe....
. A CD of these songs, Tooth of Crime
Tooth of Crime
Tooth of Crime is a 2008 album by T-Bone Burnett. The album is a selection of music written by Burnett for the 1997 production of Sam Shepard's play The Tooth of Crime.-Track listing:# "Anything I Say Can and Will Be Used Against You" - 4:02...
, was released in May 2008, featuring guitarist Marc Ribot
Marc Ribot
Marc Ribot born May 21, 1954) is an American guitarist and composer.His own work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, and Cuban music. Ribot is also known for collaborating with other musicians, most notably Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, and composer John Zorn.-Biography:Ribot was...
and backing vocals by Sam Phillips and singer/songwriter David Poe, whose self-titled debut Burnett also produced that year. According to Burnett, he was inspired by the music of Skip James
Skip James
Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James was an American Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter, born in Bentonia, Mississippi, died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
, while composing the songs for the updated version of Shepard's play.
In April 2006, he announced that his first concert tour in nearly two decades would begin on May 16 in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
at The Vic Theater
The Vic Theater
The Victoria Theatre, best known as The Vic Theatre is a musical venue located in Chicago, Illinois. The Vic Theatre can easily accommodate 1,400 people, with seating for 1,000....
. Around the same time, jazz singer Cassandra Wilson
Cassandra Wilson
Cassandra Wilson is an American jazz musician, vocalist, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi. Described by critic Gary Giddins as "a singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack [who has] expanded the playing field" by incorporating country, blues and folk music into her...
released an album of blues songs, Thunderbird
Thunderbird (album)
Thunderbird is an album by American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson. It was released on the Blue Note label in 2006.-Track listing:# "Go to Mexico" – 4:14# "Closer to You" – 5:49# "Easy Rider" – 7:03# "It Would Be So Easy"...
(2006), which was produced by Burnett. He also wrote one of the album's songs and co-wrote another with Ethan Coen. Burnett also produced music for the remake of the film All the King's Men
All the King's Men (2006 film)
All the King's Men is a 2006 film adaptation of the 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren. It was directed by Steven Zaillian, who also produced and scripted....
.
In 2006, Burnett produced Brandi Carlile
Brandi Carlile
Brandi Carlile is an American singer and songwriter.-Early life:At age eight, Carlile performed a rendition of the country music song "Tennessee Flat Top Box" with her mother. She began to play the guitar and write songs at fifteen. At sixteen, she began to perform as a backup singer for an Elvis...
's The Story
The Story (Brandi Carlile album)
The Story is the second album by folk rock singer Brandi Carlile, and was released on April 3, 2007. The album peaked at #58 in the Billboard 200 on May 5, 2007....
album, the title song of which became a minor hit and was featured on a special broadcast of ABC-TV's Grey's Anatomy
Grey's Anatomy
Grey's Anatomy is an American medical drama television series created by Shonda Rhimes. The series premiered on March 27, 2005 on ABC; since then, seven seasons have aired. The series follows the lives of interns, residents and their mentors in the fictional Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital in...
. Carlile's guitarist and bassist, twins Tim and Phil Hanseroth, respectively, used instruments from Burnett's private collection during the unique "live" recordings in Vancouver, B.C.
In early 2007, Burnett earned nominations for two 2006 Grammy Awards, one as Producer of the Year for his work on Cassandra Wilson's Thunderbird album, the soundtrack to Walk the Line and his own The True False Identity. Walk the Line was nominated for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. Burnett earned another nomination for his efforts as Executive Music Producer and Album Producer on that soundtrack.
In October 2007, the Grammy-winning, Burnett-produced Raising Sand
Raising Sand
Raising Sand is a collaboration album by rock singer Robert Plant and bluegrass-country singer Alison Krauss. It was released on October 23, 2007 by Rounder Records...
, a collaborative album featuring Alison Krauss and Robert Plant was released. Burnett plays guitar on ten of the 13 tracks.
Pete Townshend
Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshend is an English rock guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for the rock group The Who, as well as for his own solo career...
announced that Burnett was to go into the studio that fall to help produce an all covers album for The Who
The Who
The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey , Pete Townshend , John Entwistle and Keith Moon . They became known for energetic live performances which often included instrument destruction...
. However, on a May 15, 2008, episode of the NPR radio show, All Songs Considered, Burnett threw that project into question. He stated that in a blog, Townshend had indicated that he was putting all his projects on hold.
In 2008, it was reported that Burnett "started a new venture called Code, which aims to do for music what THX did for movie-theater sound: set standards that ensure the best possible quality." He is opposed to the trend of brighter and more compressed processing, sufficiently so, that he essentially retired from the music business around 1995–1996 and pursued an opportunity to work in theater with Sam Shepard, leading to his work on several films.
The audio format known as Code, involves the simultaneous release of multiple sound formats, thus avoiding much of the processing which happens when sound is converted from one format to another. Burnett produced John Mellencamp
John Mellencamp
John Mellencamp, previously known by the stage names Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, and John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American rock singer-songwriter, musician, painter and occasional actor known for his catchy, populist brand of heartland rock that eschews synthesizers and other artificial sounds...
's album Life, Death, Love and Freedom
Life, Death, Love and Freedom
Life, Death, Love and Freedom is a folk rock album by singer-songwriter John Mellencamp and produced by T-Bone Burnett. It was released on July 15, 2008. At the end of 2008, Rolling Stone magazine named Life, Death, Love and Freedom No. 5 on its list of the 50 best albums of the year...
, which was the first Code album when it was released on July 15, 2008. Burnett also produced Mellencamp's follow-up to Life, Death, Love and Freedom, titled No Better Than This
No Better Than This
No Better Than This is an album by American singer-songwriter and musician John Mellencamp, produced by T Bone Burnett, that was released on August 17, 2010. The album was recorded at several historic locations throughout the United States...
.
In 2009, Burnett produced albums for Moonalice
Moonalice
Moonalice is the band that formed from previous members of the Flying Other Brothers. The band has been touring since May, 2007, and has come to the attention of music critics. The band is made up of five musicians, and led by businessman Roger McNamee. Their eponymous debut album recorded and...
and Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals is an American rock band from Waitsfield, Vermont.-Career:Grace Potter and the Nocturnals' lead vocalist is multi-instrumentalist Grace Potter, who attended St. Lawrence University for two years before pursuing music professionally...
.
In that same year, he also produced Elvis Costello's album, Secret, Profane & Sugarcane
Secret, Profane & Sugarcane
Secret, Profane & Sugarcane is the 2009 studio album by Elvis Costello. It was recorded in Nashville with American songwriter and producer T Bone Burnett, and released on June 9 2009 on the Hear Music label...
as well as co-writing the song "Sulfur to Sugarcane" with Costello.
Burnett produced a collaboration album by Elton John
Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...
and Leon Russell
Leon Russell
Claude Russell Bridges , known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American musician and songwriter, who has recorded as a session musician, sideman, and maintained a solo career in music....
. John, Russell, and Bernie Taupin
Bernie Taupin
Bernard John "Bernie" Taupin is an English lyricist, poet, and singer, best known for his long-term collaboration with Elton John, writing the lyrics for the majority of the star's songs, making his lyrics some of the best known in pop-rock's history.In 1967, Taupin answered an advertisement in...
(John's lyricist) wrote songs together in late 2009. The album, which is titled The Union, was recorded in January 2010 and released in October 2010.
In 2010 Burnett produced Gregg Allman
Gregg Allman
Gregory Lenoir Allman , known as Gregg Allman, is a rock and blues singer, keyboardist, guitarist and songwriter, and a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band. He was inducted with the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Georgia...
's “Low Country Blues” album (release date in January 2011).
Burnett has started production, as of January 2011, on Lisa Marie Presley
Lisa Marie Presley
Lisa Marie Presley is an American singer and songwriter, also known as the "Princess of Rock and Roll". She is the only child of Elvis Presley, and daughter of Priscilla Presley.-Early life:...
's as-yet untitled third album in Los Angeles. The album will be released late in 2011.
Work in films
In 1992, Burnett worked on some songs with his friend River PhoenixRiver Phoenix
River Jude Phoenix was an American film actor, musician, and teen icon. He was the oldest brother of fellow actors Rain, Joaquin, Liberty, and Summer Phoenix.Phoenix began acting at age 10 in television commercials...
, for the movie The Thing Called Love
The Thing Called Love
The Thing Called Love is an American comedy-drama film released in 1993. It was directed by Peter Bogdanovich. The film's tagline is: "Stand by your dream."...
. He was the coach of Samantha Mathis
Samantha Mathis
Samantha Mathis is an American actress. The daughter of actress Bibi Besch, Mathis made her film debut in Pump Up the Volume , opposite Christian Slater...
.
In 2000, Burnett produced the soundtrack
Soundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...
and wrote the score for the Coen Brothers
Coen Brothers
Joel David Coen and Ethan Jesse Coen known together professionally as the Coen brothers, are American filmmakers...
film, O Brother, Where Art Thou?. The award-winning soundtrack featured music from Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Ralph Stanley
Ralph Stanley
Ralph Stanley , also known as Dr. Ralph Stanley, is an American bluegrass artist, known for his distinctive singing and banjo playing.-Biography:...
, Gillian Welch, and others performing traditional American folk music
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
, blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
and bluegrass
Bluegrass music
Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a sub-genre of country music. It has mixed roots in Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish traditional music...
— reminiscent of Burnett's 1986 self-titled release. The album was a hit, garnering numerous industry awards from the Grammys, Academy of Country Music
Academy of Country Music
The Academy of Country Music was founded in 1964 in Los Angeles, California as the Country & Western Music Academy. Whereas the Country Music Association, founded in 1958, was based in Nashville, the Academy sought to promote country music in the western states. Among those involved in the...
, and the Country Music Association
Country Music Association
The Country Music Association was founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee. It originally consisted of only 233 members and was the first trade organization formed to promote a music genre...
. The album was as much a commercial success as a critical one and has sold over seven million copies according to the Recording Industry Association of America
Recording Industry Association of America
The Recording Industry Association of America is a trade organization that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States...
.
A documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
, Down from the Mountain
Down from the Mountain
The soundtrack album, Down from the Mountain: Live Concert Performances by the Artists & Musicians of O Brother, Where Art Thou? was released to complement the documentary concert film...
, was made of a benefit concert of the soundtrack performed by the artists on the album; Burnett figures prominently in the film. For producing the soundtrack albums for these two films, and for his wife Sam Phillips' Fan Dance
Fan Dance (album)
Fan Dance is the ninth album from American singer-songwriter Sam Phillips.-Track listing:All songs by Sam Phillips, except "Say What You Mean" by Sam Phillips and T-Bone Burnett# "The Fan Dance" – 3:46# "Edge Of The World" – 3:01...
album, Burnett won the 2002 Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
The Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical has been awarded since 1975. The award had several minor name changes:*from 1975 to 1977, the award was known as Best Producer of the Year...
. Burnett went on to produce the less popular gospel soundtrack to the Coen's The Ladykillers
The Ladykillers (2004 film)
The Ladykillers is a 2004 dark comedy film directed, written and produced by the Coen brothers and stars Tom Hanks, with a supporting cast that includes J. K. Simmons, Marlon Wayans, Tzi Ma, Ryan Hurst and Irma P. Hall...
.
In 2004, under his name "Henry Burnett", he wrote "I Wish My Baby Was Born", "Like a Songbird That Has Fallen", and "Scarlet Tide" for the movie Cold Mountain. "Scarlet Tide", co-written with Elvis Costello and performed by Alison Krauss, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song and won BAFTA's Anthony Asquith Award for Achievement in Film Music
BAFTA Award for Best Film Music
The Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music is an annual award given by British Academy of Film and Television Arts.-1960s:*1968 - The Lion in Winter - John Barry...
.
In 2005, he composed the score for Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders
Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf...
' film Don't Come Knocking
Don't Come Knocking
Don't Come Knocking is a 2005 film, a comedy-drama road movie directed by German director Wim Wenders and written by Wenders and actor/playwright Sam Shepard. The two had previously collaborated on the film Paris, Texas...
.
In 2005, he worked with actors Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Rafael Phoenix , formerly credited as Leaf Phoenix, is an American film actor. He was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and his family returned to the continental United States four years later...
and Reese Witherspoon
Reese Witherspoon
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon , better known as Reese Witherspoon, is an American actress and film producer. Witherspoon landed her first feature role as the female lead in the film The Man in the Moon in 1991; later that year she made her television acting debut, in the cable movie Wildflower...
for their singing roles as Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
and June Carter Cash
June Carter Cash
Valerie June Carter Cash was an American singer, dancer, songwriter, actress, comedienne and author who was a member of the Carter Family and the second wife of singer Johnny Cash...
in the film Walk the Line. Witherspoon won the Academy Award for Best Actress
Academy Award for Best Actress
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...
for her role in the film, giving special thanks to Burnett in her speech for "helping her realize her lifelong dream of being a country music singer". He also produced that film's soundtrack album and wrote its score.
In 2009, Burnett collaborated on music for the movie Crazy Heart, winning a Golden Globe
67th Golden Globe Awards
The 67th Golden Globe Awards was telecasted live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on Sunday, January 17, 2010 by NBC, from 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM and 8:00PM – 11:00 PM . The ceremonies were hosted by Ricky Gervais, and were broadcast live for the first time.Nominations were...
, an Academy Award
82nd Academy Awards
The 82nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , honored the best films of 2009 and took place March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. The ceremony was scheduled well after...
, and a Grammy Award
53rd Grammy Awards
The 53rd annual Grammy Awards were held on February 13, 2011, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. They were broadcast on CBS with a rating of 26.6 million viewers. Barbra Streisand was honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year two nights prior to the telecast on February 11. Nominations were...
for the song "The Weary Kind" that he composed with Ryan Bingham
Ryan Bingham
Ryan Bingham is an Americana singer-songwriter currently based in Los Angeles, California.After garnering critical acclaim for his first two studio releases on Lost Highway Records, 2007's Mescalito and 2009's Roadhouse Sun, Ryan Bingham went on to collaborate with Grammy-winning producer T Bone...
. T-Bone was also a producer of the film, along with Jeff Bridges
Jeff Bridges
Jeffrey Leon "Jeff" Bridges is an American actor and musician. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Otis "Bad" Blake in the 2009 film Crazy Heart....
and Robert Duvall
Robert Duvall
Robert Selden Duvall is an American actor and director. He has won an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and a BAFTA over the course of his career....
.
Academy Awards
On January 27, 2004, Burnett was nominated for an Academy Award, along with Elvis Costello in the category of Best Original Song for "Scarlet Tide" from the film, Cold Mountain.On March 7, 2010, Burnett and Ryan Bingham won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart.
BAFTA Anthony Asquith Award
On January 26, 2010, Burnett and Crazy Heart collaborator Stephen Bruton received BAFTA's Anthony Asquith Award for Achievement in Film Music for their work on Cold Mountain.Critics Choice Awards
On January 15, 2010, Burnett and Ryan Bingham were awarded the prize for Best Song at the 15th annual Critics Choice Awards on Friday night. The awards are bestowed annually by the Broadcast Film Critics AssociationBroadcast Film Critics Association
The Broadcast Film Critics Association is the largest film critics organization in the United States and Canada , representing approximately 250 television, radio and online critics....
to honor the finest in cinematic achievement. Burnett and Bingham won the award for writing "The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart.
Frederick Loewe Award
On December 10, 2009, Burnett was presented with the Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing, for his work on Crazy Heart, at the Palm Springs International Film FestivalPalm Springs International Film Festival
Palm Springs International Film Festival is a film festival held in Palm Springs, California. It was started in 1989 and is held annually in January...
.
Golden Globe Awards
On January 17, 2010, Burnett and Ryan Bingham were awarded a Golden Globe in the category of Best Original SongGolden Globe Award for Best Original Song
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song was awarded for the first time in 1962 and has been awarded annually since 1965 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.-1960s:...
for "The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart.
Grammy Awards
On January 7, 1993, Burnett was nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Contemporary Folk Album for The Criminal Under My Own HatThe Criminal Under My Own Hat
-Track listing:All tracks written by T-Bone Burnett; except where indicated# "Over You" – 2:20# "Tear This Building Down" – 4:37# "It's Not Too Late" – 4:26# "Humans from Earth" – 2:48# "Primitives" – 3:15...
.
On February 27, 2002, Burnett won four Grammys for his work on the soundtrack to O Brother Where Art Thou, in the categories of Album of the Year
Grammy Award for Album of the Year
The Grammy Award for Album of the Year is the most prestigious award category at the Grammys. It has been awarded since 1959 and though it was originally presented to the artist alone, the award is now presented to the artist, the producer, the engineer and/or mixer and the mastering engineer...
, Best Traditional Folk Album and Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. He was also awarded the Grammy as Producer of the Year, Non-Classical.
On February 23, 2003, Burnett won a Grammy in the category of Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
The Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album is an award presented to recording artists at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards...
for his work on A Wonderful World
A Wonderful World
A Wonderful World is an album by Tony Bennett and k.d. lang, released in 2002.It later won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album...
from Tony Bennett and k.d. lang.
On February 8, 2006, Burnett won a Grammy in the category of Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media, for his work on Walk The Line.
On February 8, 2009, Burnett was awarded Grammys for Album of the Year and Best Contemporary Folk Album for his work on the Robert Plant and Alison Krauss album, Raising Sand; Record of the Year for his work on "Please Read The Letter
Please Read the Letter
"Please Read the Letter" is a song originally recorded by Robert Plant and Jimmy Page for the 1998 album Walking into Clarksdale. It was released as the second single off the album....
", also from Raising Sand; and Best Traditional Blues Album for his work on B.B. King's One Kind Favor
One Kind Favor
One Kind Favor is B.B. King's 24th studio album. It was released on August 26, 2008 by Geffen Records.The album won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album at the 51st Grammy Awards.-Track listing:...
.
On December 2, 2009, Burnett was nominated for a Grammy in the categories of Best Contemporary Folk Album and Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, for his work on Elvis Costello's Secret, Profane & Sugarcane.
On January 13, 2011, Burnett was awarded Grammys in the categories of Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media, for his work on Crazy Heart
Crazy Heart
Crazy Heart is a 2009 American musical-drama film, written and directed by Scott Cooper and based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Thomas Cobb. Jeff Bridges plays a down-and-out country music singer-songwriter who tries to turn his life around after beginning a relationship with a young...
, and Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media, along with Ryan Bingham
Ryan Bingham
Ryan Bingham is an Americana singer-songwriter currently based in Los Angeles, California.After garnering critical acclaim for his first two studio releases on Lost Highway Records, 2007's Mescalito and 2009's Roadhouse Sun, Ryan Bingham went on to collaborate with Grammy-winning producer T Bone...
, for "The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart)"
The Weary Kind
"The Weary Kind" is a country song written by Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett for the film Crazy Heart, a 2009 film directed by Scott Cooper starring Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Colin Farrell and Bridges perform renditions of the song in the film...
.
Independent Spirit Awards
On March 5, 2010, Burnett and fellow Crazy Heart producers Robert DuvallRobert Duvall
Robert Selden Duvall is an American actor and director. He has won an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and a BAFTA over the course of his career....
, Rob Carliner and Judy Cairo, along with director Scott Cooper
Scott Cooper (director)
Scott Cooper is an American actor, writer, director, and producer. He is known for writing, directing and producing the 2009 film Crazy Heart starring Jeff Bridges...
, received Best First Feature
Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature
The Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature is one of the annual Independent Spirit Awards. It is usually given to the director and producer . The "first feature" designation is applied to the director not the producer...
honors at the 25th Annual Independent Spirit Awards
Independent Spirit Awards
The Independent Spirit Awards , founded in 1984, are awards dedicated to independent filmmakers. Winners were typically presented with acrylic glass pyramids containing suspended shoestrings representing the paltry budgets of independent films. In 1986, the event was renamed the Independent Spirit...
.
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award
On January 16, 2010, Burnett and his longtime friend and collaborator on Crazy Heart, Stephen BrutonStephen Bruton
-Background:Born in Wilmington, Delaware as Turner Stephen Bruton, he moved with his family to Texas at the age of two. He fell into the Fort Worth music scene after graduating from Texas Christian University when he joined Kris Kristofferson's band as the latter's career was about to take off;...
, were awarded Best Music Score honors for their work on that film by The Los Angeles Film Critics Association
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association was founded in 1975. Its main purpose is to present yearly awards to members of the film industry who have excelled in their fields. These awards are presented each January...
at their 35th Annual Awards Ceremony. Bruton died on May 9, 2009, shortly after completing work on the film.
Satellite Award
On December 20, 2009, Burnett won a Satellite Award from the International Press AcademyInternational Press Academy
The International Press Academy is a large and diverse association of professional entertainment journalists, representing both domestic and foreign markets in print, television, radio, cable and new media outlets. The academy was founded in 1996 by Mirjana Van Blaricom...
in the category of Original Song for writing "The Weary Kind", from Crazy Heart, with Ryan Bingham.
Artist discography
| Project | Release Date |
|---|---|
| T Bone Burnett Presents The Speaking Clock Revue Live From The Beacon Theatre Shout! Factory Shout! Factory is an entertainment company founded in 2003 that was started by Richard Foos , Bob Emmer and Garson Foos initially as a specialty music label... |
2011 |
| Tooth of Crime Tooth of Crime Tooth of Crime is a 2008 album by T-Bone Burnett. The album is a selection of music written by Burnett for the 1997 production of Sam Shepard's play The Tooth of Crime.-Track listing:# "Anything I Say Can and Will Be Used Against You" - 4:02... |
2008 |
| Twenty Twenty – The Essential T-Bone Burnett | 2006 |
| The True False Identity The True False Identity The True False Identity is an album by T-Bone Burnett, released in 2006.-Track listing:All tracks composed by T-Bone Burnett; except where indicated# "Zombieland" – 5:57# "Palestine Texas" – 4:47# "Seven Times Hotter Than Fire" – 4:41... |
2006 |
| The Criminal Under My Own Hat The Criminal Under My Own Hat -Track listing:All tracks written by T-Bone Burnett; except where indicated# "Over You" – 2:20# "Tear This Building Down" – 4:37# "It's Not Too Late" – 4:26# "Humans from Earth" – 2:48# "Primitives" – 3:15... |
1992 |
| The Talking Animals The Talking Animals -Side one:#"The Wild Truth" – 3:38#"Monkey Dance" – 4:43#"Image" – 4:02#"Dance, Dance, Dance" – 2:45#"The Killer Moon" – 5:00-Side two:#"Relentless" – 3:24#"Euromad" – 4:21#"Purple Heart" – 4:36... |
1987 |
| T-Bone Burnett T-Bone Burnett (album) T-Bone Burnett is an album by T-Bone Burnett, released in 1986. It was his only release on the Dot label.T-Bone Burnett was reissued in 1995 by Universal Special.-Track listing:All tracks written by T-Bone Burnett; except where indicated... |
1986 |
| 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) |
1984 |
| 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... |
1983 |
| Trap Door Trap Door (EP) Trap Door is an EP by T-Bone Burnett, released in 1982. It was his first release on the Warner Bros. label after leaving Takoma Records.Although the EP is out of print, all the songs were reissued on CD by Rhino Handmade on March 27, 2007... (EP) |
1982 |
| Truth Decay | 1980 |
| The B-52 Band & the Fabulous Skylarks The B-52 Band & the Fabulous Skylarks The B-52 Band & the Fabulous Skylarks is an album by T-Bone Burnett, released in 1972 as J. Henry Burnett. It would be eight years before he released his first solo album as T-Bone Burnett... |
1972 |
Compilations
| Project | Song | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Until the End of the World Until the End of the World (soundtrack) Until the End of the World is a soundtrack album to the film of the same name, released in 1991 on Warner Bros. Records. One song on the album—U2's "Until the End of the World", had been previously released on that band's 1991 album Achtung Baby—all of the other songs were original contributions,... |
Humans from Earth | 1991 |
| Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye - Tribute to Roky Erickson | Nothing In Return | 1990 |
Alpha Band discography
| Project | Release Date |
|---|---|
| The Statue Makers of Hollywood The Statue Makers of Hollywood The Statue Makers of Hollywood is the third and final album by the rock band The Alpha Band, released in 1978.- Track listing :# "Tick Tock" # "Rich Man" # "Mighty Man"... |
1978 |
| Spark in the Dark Spark in the Dark Spark in the Dark is the second album by the rock band The Alpha Band, released in 1977. The core band members remained T-Bone Burnett, Steven Soles and David Mansfield. No less than five drummers were used on the recording, including guest Ringo Starr.... |
1977 |
| Alpha Band Alpha Band The Alpha Band is the debut album by the rock band The Alpha Band, released in 1976. The band was formed in 1976 from the remnants of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue. The core band members were T-Bone Burnett, Steven Soles and David Mansfield.... |
1976 |
Record production discography
| Project | Artist | Credit | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghost Brothers of Darkland County Ghost Brothers of Darkland County -Album release:The plan is to release a three-CD/book package featuring major artists performing Mellencamp's songs, and the book will contain the play's dialogue. According to Rolling Stone, two of those artists will be Elvis Costello and Neko Case. It was later announced that Kris Kristofferson,... |
Soundtrack | Producer | 2011 |
| I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive | Steve Earle Steve Earle Stephen Fain "Steve" Earle is an American singer-songwriter known for his rock and Texas Country as well as his political views. He is also a producer, author, a political activist, and an actor, and has written and directed a play.... |
Producer | 4/26/2011 |
| Low Country Blues | Gregg Allman Gregg Allman Gregory Lenoir Allman , known as Gregg Allman, is a rock and blues singer, keyboardist, guitarist and songwriter, and a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band. He was inducted with the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Georgia... |
Producer | 1/18/2011 |
| National Ransom National Ransom National Ransom is the 2010 studio album by Elvis Costello. It was recorded in Nashville and Los Angeles with American songwriter and producer T-Bone Burnett, and was released on October 25, 2010 on the Hear Music label.... |
Elvis Costello Elvis Costello Elvis Costello , born Declan Patrick MacManus, is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader... |
Producer, Songwriting | 11/2/2010 |
| The Union | Elton John Elton John Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor... and Leon Russell Leon Russell Claude Russell Bridges , known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American musician and songwriter, who has recorded as a session musician, sideman, and maintained a solo career in music.... |
Producer, Guitar, Songwriting | 10/19/2010 |
| The Secret Sisters The Secret Sisters The Secret Sisters are a new-age traditional Country music duo, consisting of vocalists Laura and Lydia Rogers, signed to Universal Republic/Beladroit Records. Their 1950s-inspired musical style has been described as "a guileless, rapturous mixture of rootsified pop"... |
The Secret Sisters The Secret Sisters The Secret Sisters are a new-age traditional Country music duo, consisting of vocalists Laura and Lydia Rogers, signed to Universal Republic/Beladroit Records. Their 1950s-inspired musical style has been described as "a guileless, rapturous mixture of rootsified pop"... |
Executive Producer | 10/12/2010 |
| Myth Of The Heart | Sahara Smith Sahara Smith Sahara Smith is a young American singer-songwriter born in Austin, Texas in 1988. Growing up in the hill country of Wimberley, Texas, she started performing locally at age fourteen. At fifteen, Sahara was selected to compete in A Prairie Home Companion's 'Talent from 12-20' contest and took home... |
Producer | 8/31/2010 |
| Junky Star | Ryan Bingham Ryan Bingham Ryan Bingham is an Americana singer-songwriter currently based in Los Angeles, California.After garnering critical acclaim for his first two studio releases on Lost Highway Records, 2007's Mescalito and 2009's Roadhouse Sun, Ryan Bingham went on to collaborate with Grammy-winning producer T Bone... |
Producer | 8/31/2010 |
| No Better Than This | John Mellencamp John Mellencamp John Mellencamp, previously known by the stage names Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, and John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American rock singer-songwriter, musician, painter and occasional actor known for his catchy, populist brand of heartland rock that eschews synthesizers and other artificial sounds... |
Producer | 8/17/2010 |
| We Walk This Road | Robert Randolph & The Family Band Robert Randolph & the Family Band Robert Randolph and the Family Band is a multicultural American funk and soul band led by pedal steel guitarist Robert Randolph. Other band members include drummer Marcus Randolph, bass guitarist Danyel Morgan, vocalist Lenesha Randolph, keyboardist and guitarist Brett Andrew Haas, and one of... |
Producer, Guitar, Songwriting | 6/21/2010 |
| Country Music | Willie Nelson Willie Nelson Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized... |
Producer | 4/13/2010 |
| Women and Country | Jakob Dylan Jakob Dylan Jakob Luke Dylan is the lead singer and songwriter of the rock band The Wallflowers and is a son of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and Sara Dylan. He has also recorded two solo albums.-Personal life:... |
Producer | 4/6/2010 |
| Crazy Heart | Soundtrack | Producer | 1/19/2010 |
| Secret, Profane & Sugarcane | Elvis Costello Elvis Costello Elvis Costello , born Declan Patrick MacManus, is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader... |
Producer | 6/2/2009 |
| Moonalice Moonalice (album) Moonalice is the first studio album by Moonalice, released on April 14, 2009. Four tracks were released on the band's web-site in 2007, with a fifth track being posted later... |
Moonalice Moonalice Moonalice is the band that formed from previous members of the Flying Other Brothers. The band has been touring since May, 2007, and has come to the attention of music critics. The band is made up of five musicians, and led by businessman Roger McNamee. Their eponymous debut album recorded and... |
Producer | 4/14/2009 |
| One Kind Favor | B.B. King | Producer | 8/26/2008 |
| akiko | Akiko Yano Akiko Yano is a Japanese pop and jazz musician and singer. She was born as Akiko Suzuki in Tokyo and raised in Aomori, Aomori, and later began her singing career in the mid-1970s... |
Producer | 10/22/2008 |
| Life, Death, Love and Freedom | John Mellencamp John Mellencamp John Mellencamp, previously known by the stage names Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, and John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American rock singer-songwriter, musician, painter and occasional actor known for his catchy, populist brand of heartland rock that eschews synthesizers and other artificial sounds... |
Producer | 7/15/2008 |
| Still | BoDeans BoDeans The BoDeans are a rock band formed in Waukesha, Wisconsin in 1983 by Kurt Neumann and Sam Llanas . In 1985, after adding a drummer and a bassist, the band signed a contract with Slash Records and recorded their first album... |
Producer | 3/4/2008 |
| Raising Sand | Robert Plant Robert Plant Robert Anthony Plant, CBE is an English singer and songwriter best known as the vocalist and lyricist of the iconic rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career... and Alison Krauss Alison Krauss Alison Maria Krauss is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in... |
Producer | 10/23/2007 |
| Across the Universe | Soundtrack | Producer | 9/14/2007 |
| The Story | Brandi Carlile Brandi Carlile Brandi Carlile is an American singer and songwriter.-Early life:At age eight, Carlile performed a rendition of the country music song "Tennessee Flat Top Box" with her mother. She began to play the guitar and write songs at fifteen. At sixteen, she began to perform as a backup singer for an Elvis... |
Producer | 4/3/2007 |
| Thunderbird Thunderbird (album) Thunderbird is an album by American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson. It was released on the Blue Note label in 2006.-Track listing:# "Go to Mexico" – 4:14# "Closer to You" – 5:49# "Easy Rider" – 7:03# "It Would Be So Easy"... |
Cassandra Wilson Cassandra Wilson Cassandra Wilson is an American jazz musician, vocalist, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi. Described by critic Gary Giddins as "a singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack [who has] expanded the playing field" by incorporating country, blues and folk music into her... |
Producer | 4/4/2006 |
| Walk the Line | Soundtrack | Producer | 11/15/2005 |
| Future Perfect Future Perfect -Album Credits:*Produced by T-Bone Burnett*All Songs Written by Autolux*Engineered by Mike Piersante*Mixed by Dave Sardy*Mastered by Stephen Marcussen *Artwork by Carla Azar-Vinyl releases:... |
Autolux Autolux Autolux is an avant-garde rock group consisting of Eugene Goreshter , Greg Edwards and Carla Azar... |
Producer | 10/26/2004 |
| A Boot and a Shoe A Boot and a Shoe -Personnel:*Carla Azar – drums*Jay Bellerose – drums*Chris Bruce – guitar*T-Bone Burnett – bass*Sam Phillips – vocals, guitar*Marc Ribot – guitar*Patrick Warren – piano, pump organ, string arrangement*David Piltch – bass... |
Sam Phillips | Producer | 4/27/2004 |
| The Ladykillers | Soundtrack | Producer | 3/23/2004 |
| Ollabelle Ollabelle (album) Ollabelle is self-titled debut album from 2004 by New York act Ollabelle. It was produced by T-Bone Burnett.-Track listing:#"Before This Time"#"Soul Of A Man"#"Elijah Rock"#"Jesus On The Mainline"#"Get Back Temptation"#"I Am Waiting"#"Two Steps"... |
Ollabelle Ollabelle Ollabelle is a New York based folk music group named after the influential Appalachian songwriter Ola Belle Reed. The group is composed of five singing multi-instrumentalists hailing from disparate parts of the United States, Canada and Australia.-History:... |
Producer | 3/9/2004 |
| Cold Mountain | Soundtrack | Producer | 12/16/2003 |
| The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood | Soundtrack | Producer | 5/28/2002 |
| Ralph Stanley | Ralph Stanley Ralph Stanley Ralph Stanley , also known as Dr. Ralph Stanley, is an American bluegrass artist, known for his distinctive singing and banjo playing.-Biography:... |
Producer | 6/11/2002 |
| A Wonderful World | Tony Bennett Tony Bennett Tony Bennett is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz.... and k.d. lang K.D. Lang Kathryn Dawn Lang, OC , known by her stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress... |
Producer | 11/5/2002 |
| Motherland Motherland (Natalie Merchant album) Motherland is the third solo album by Natalie Merchant, released in 2001. It was her last mainstream record to be released via her label Elektra Records... |
Natalie Merchant Natalie Merchant Natalie Anne Merchant is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She joined the alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs in 1981 and left it to begin her solo career in 1993.-Early life:... |
Producer | 11/13/2001 |
| Fan Dance | Sam Phillips | Producer | 7/31/2001 |
| Down from the Mountain | Soundtrack | Producer | 7/24/2001 |
| O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Soundtrack | Producer | 12/5/2000 |
| Come to Where I'm From Come To Where I'm From Come to Where I'm From is the second official 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."-Track listing:-Singles:... |
Joseph Arthur Joseph Arthur Joseph Arthur is an American singer-songwriter and artist from Akron, Ohio. Combining poetic lyrics with a layered sonic palette, Arthur has built his reputation over the years through critically acclaimed releases and constant touring; his unique solo live performances incorporate the use of a... |
Producer | 4/11/2000 |
| Blue Days Black Nights | Freedy Johnston Freedy Johnston Freedy Johnston is a New York City-based singer-songwriter originally from Kinsley, Kansas.Having scored several minor hits since the early 1990s, Johnston's songs are often about troubled loners, and cover topics like heartbreak, alienation and disappointment... |
Producer, Optigan | 7/20/1999 |
| Songs from the Pipe | The Surfers | Producer | 7/21/1998 |
| Hell Among the Yearlings | Gillian Welch Gillian Welch Gillian Welch is an American singer-songwriter. She performs with her musical partner, guitarist David Rawlings. Their sparse and dark musical style, which combines elements of Appalachian music, Bluegrass, and Americana, is described by The New Yorker as "at once innovative and obliquely... |
Producer | 7/28/1998 |
| Horse Whisperer | Soundtrack | Producer | 6/2/1998 |
| Clay Pigeons | Clay Pigeons | Producer | 9/22/1998 |
| Ole | Tonio K | Producer | 12/23/1997 (recorded 1990) |
| David Poe | David Poe | Bass, Ukulele, Producer, Fuzz bass, Drones | 9/23/1997 |
| Omnipop (It's Only a Flesh Wound Lambchop) Omnipop (It's Only A Flesh Wound Lambchop) Omnipop is the eighth album from American singer-songwriter Sam Phillips. The album's subtitle is a quote from the opening credit sequence of The Producers.... |
Sam Phillips | Producer, Loops | 8/20/1996 |
| Stealing Beauty | Soundtrack | Producer | 5/28/1996 |
| Bringing Down the Horse | Wallflowers | Producer | 5/21/1996 |
| Revival | Gillian Welch Gillian Welch Gillian Welch is an American singer-songwriter. She performs with her musical partner, guitarist David Rawlings. Their sparse and dark musical style, which combines elements of Appalachian music, Bluegrass, and Americana, is described by The New Yorker as "at once innovative and obliquely... |
Producer | 4/9/1996 |
| Sweetie | Daniel Tashian | Guitar, Producer | 3/26/1996 |
| Braver Newer World | Jimmie Dale Gilmore Jimmie Dale Gilmore Jimmie Dale Gilmore is a country singer, songwriter, actor, recording artist and producer, currently living in Austin, Texas.-Biography:... |
Guitar, Producer, Mixing | 6/25/1996 |
| Bringing On The Weather | Jackopierce Jackopierce Jackopierce is an American alternative rock band formed by Jack O'Neill and Cary Pierce in Dallas, Texas in 1988. Their style is focused around vocal harmonies and acoustic guitars.-History:... |
Producer | 2/14/1995 |
| Pretty Little Lonely | Michael Petak | Producer | 8/16/1994 |
| Martinis & Bikinis Martinis and Bikinis Martinis and Bikinis is the seventh album from American singer-songwriter Sam Phillips.The photographs included in this album's artwork reportedly led to Phillips' role as a mute terrorist in the film, Die Hard with a Vengeance.... |
Sam Phillips | Producer | 3/8/1994 |
| Dart to the Heart | Bruce Cockburn | Producer | 3/1/1994 |
| Go Slow Down | BoDeans | Producer, Engineer, Executive Producer | 10/12/1993 |
| August and Everything After August and Everything After August and Everything After is the first commercially released album of the American rock band Counting Crows, released September 14, 1993.... |
Counting Crows | Guitar, Producer | 9/14/1993 |
| A. J. Croce A. J. Croce (album) A. J. Croce is the self-titled debut album by American singer-songwriter A. J. Croce, released in 1993.-Track listing:All songs written by A.J... |
A. J. Croce A. J. Croce Adrian James "A.J." Croce is an American singer-songwriter. He is the son of singer-songwriter Jim Croce and Ingrid Croce.-Early life and family:... |
Producer | 5/25/1993 |
| Everything You Want (Nothing That You Need) | Seven Stories Seven Stories (band) Seven Stories was an Australian rock group formed in Adelaide, initially as Tall Stories, in 1986. The band was nominated as 'Best New Talent' at the 1991 Australian Record Industry Association Awards and signed to Sony , but disbanded in 1994 after its second full-length album release, Everything... |
Producer | 1993 |
| Five Easy Pieces | Dirty Looks | Producer | 11/10/1992 |
| Lily Lily (album) Lily is the second solo studio album by Australian singer-songwriter Wendy Matthews released by rooArt in Australia on 28 September 1992 . Matthews travelled to Canada with her mother for the album to discover their heritage, which influences the album. Matthews states the album "overall, has... |
Wendy Matthews Wendy Matthews Wendy Joan Matthews is an Australian adult alternative pop singer originally from Canada who has been a member of Models and Absent Friends and is a solo artist... |
Producer | 9/28/1992 |
| Break Like the Wind Break Like the Wind Break Like the Wind is an album by the semi-fictional band Spinal Tap. The title, from the album's title track, is a double entendre that combines and confuses the idiom "make like the wind [and blow]" with "break[ing] wind" , and samples the classical guitar piece Concierto de Aranjuez by Rodrigo... |
Spinal Tap | Producer, Mixing | 3/17/1992 |
| Until the End of the World | Soundtrack | Vocals, Producer | 12/10/1991 |
| Cruel Inventions Cruel Inventions Cruel Inventions is the sixth album from American singer-songwriter Sam Phillips.-Track listing:All songs by Sam Phillips.# "Lying" – 3:52# "Go Down" – 3:38# "Cruel Inventions" – 3:00# "Standing Still" – 3:10... |
Sam Phillips | Guitar, producer, Chamberlin | 5/28/1991 |
| Live Two Five | Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Nitty Gritty Dirt Band The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is an American country-folk-rock band that has existed in various forms since its founding in Long Beach, California in 1966. The group's membership has had at least a dozen changes over the years, including a period from 1976 to 1981 when the band performed and recorded... |
Producer | 7/16/1991 |
| Nothing but a Burning Light | Bruce Cockburn | Producer | 11/5/1991 |
| Shuffletown | Joe Henry Joe Henry Joseph Lee "Joe" Henry is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Henry's musical style spans several genres, including alt. country, rock, jazz and folk.- Early years :... |
Guitar, Percussion, Producer, Drums | 8/31/1990 |
| My Father's Face My Father's Face My Father's Face is an album recorded by American guitarist Leo Kottke, released in 1989. It is his second with producer T Bone Burnett.The same year as the release of My Father's Face Kottke would be featured in a PBS feature, Home and Away.... |
Leo Kottke Leo Kottke Leo Kottke is an acoustic guitarist. He is widely known for his innovative fingerpicking style, which draws on influences from blues, jazz, and folk music, and his syncopated, polyphonic melodies... |
Organ, Guitar, Producer | 10/25/1990 |
| Third World Warrior Third World Warrior Third World Warrior is an album by Kris Kristofferson, released on Mercury Records in 1990 . It is a concept album composed of topical songs on politics, primarily expressing left-wing support... |
Kris Kristofferson Kris Kristofferson Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson is an American musician, actor, and writer. He is known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"... |
Guitar, Arranger | 3/6/1990 |
| Mystery Girl Mystery Girl -Core:*Roy Orbison – vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, guitar*Jeff Lynne – guitars on 1 5, acoustic guitar on 4, keyboards on 1 4 5, piano on 1, bass on 1 4 5, backing vocals on 1 4 5 9*Tom Petty – acoustic guitar on 1 5, backing vocals on 1 2 5... |
Roy Orbison | Guitar, Producer | 2/1/1989 |
| Spike | Elvis Costello | Guitar, Bass, Producer | 2/14/1989 |
| Black & White Night: Live | Roy Orbison | Guitar, Producer | 10/23/1989 |
| The Indescribable Wow The Indescribable Wow The Indescribable Wow was well received on its release. In Rolling Stone the reviewer said, "Phillips is a major talent, with great rewards to offer" while Allmusic states that the album's music is "timeless".-Track listing:... |
Sam Phillips | Guitar, Producer | 8/9/1988 |
| By the Light of the Moon By the Light of the Moon (album) By the Light of the Moon is the third album by the American rock group Los Lobos.-Track listing:# One Time One Night – 4:48# Shakin' Shakin' Shakes – 4:13# Is This All There Is? – 4:00# Prenda Del Alma – 3:21# All I Wanted To Do Was Dance – 3:57... |
Los Lobos | Producer | 7/7/1987 |
| The Turning The Turning The Turning is the title of the fourth album by Leslie Phillips , originally released in 1987 on Myrrh Records.... |
Leslie Phillips | Guitar, Producer | 1987 |
| Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams | BoDeans | Guitar, Producer | 5/1/1986 |
| King of America King of America King of America is the tenth studio album by the British rock singer and songwriter Elvis Costello, released in 1986 in the United Kingdom as F-Beat ZL 70946, and in the United States as Columbia JC 40173. It was billed as by "The Costello Show featuring the Attractions and Confederates" in the UK... |
The Costello Show Elvis Costello Elvis Costello , born Declan Patrick MacManus, is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader... |
Guitar, Producer | 2/21/1986 |
| Romeo Unchained | Tonio K. | Guitar, Drums, Producer | 1986 |
| Peter Case Peter Case (album) Peter Case was the debut album by American power pop singer-songwriter Peter Case, released in 1986 on Geffen Records. The album was produced by J. Henry "T-Bone" Burnett andMitchell Froom... |
Peter Case Peter Case Peter Case is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, who has had a wide-ranging career ranging from new wave music to folk rock to solo acoustic performance.-Early career:... |
Guitar, Producer | 1986 |
| Downtown | Marshall Crenshaw | Sitar, Producer | 9/16/1985 |
| How Will the Wolf Survive? | Los Lobos | Organ, Guitar, Producer | 1/1/1984 |
| Time Step Time Step (Leo Kottke album) Time Step is an album by American guitarist Leo Kottke, released in 1983.-History:Time Step is Kottke's last recording on the Chrysalis label. It is the first of two Kottke albums produced by T-Bone Burnett, the second being My Father's Face. Guests include Albert Lee and Emmylou Harris.After the... |
Leo Kottke | Producer | 5/1/1983 |
| Delbert & Glen | Delbert McClinton Delbert McClinton Delbert McClinton is an American blues rock and electric blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, harmonica player, and pianist.... and Glen Clark Glen Clark Glen David Clark is a politician in British Columbia, Canada who served as the 31st Premier of British Columbia from 1996 to 1999.-Early life and education:... |
Producer | 1972 |
| Live at the New Bluebird Nightclub | Robert Ealey Robert Ealey Robert Ealey was an African American electric blues singer, who performed Texas blues. Among other releases, he recorded a couple of albums for Black Top Records in the 1990s, having earlier formed a duo with U.P. Wilson... and His Five Careless Lovers |
Producer | 1970 |
| The Legendary Stardust Cowboy | The Legendary Stardust Cowboy | Producer and Drums | 1968 |
| The Van Dykes | The Van Dykes | Producer | 1966 |
Film and television discography
| Project | Medium | Credit | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tough Trade | TV Series | Executive Producer, Music Producer, Composer | 2010 |
| Crazy Heart | Film | Producer, Songwriter, Composer | 12/19/2009 |
| Across The Universe Across the Universe (film) Across the Universe is a musical romantic drama film directed by Julie Taymor, produced by Revolution Studios, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The film's plot is centered around songs by The Beatles. It was released in the United States on October 12, 2007. The script is based on an original... |
Film | Music Producer | 10/12/2007 |
| All the King's Men All the King's Men All the King's Men is a novel by Robert Penn Warren first published in 1946. Its title is drawn from the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. In 1947 Warren won the Pulitzer Prize for All the King's Men.... |
Film | Executive Music Producer | 9/22/2006 |
| Walk the Line | Film | Executive Music Producer, Composer | 11/18/2005 |
| Don't Come Knocking | Film | Executive Music Producer, Composer | 8/25/2005 |
| The Ladykillers | Film | Executive Music Producer | 3/26/2004 |
| Cold Mountain | Film | Executive Music Producer | 12/25/2003 |
| The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (film) Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is a 2002 American comedy-drama film starring Sandra Bullock and Ashley Judd, directed and written by Callie Khouri... |
Film | Composer | 6/7/2002 |
| O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Film | Music Producer, Original Music | 12/22/2000 |
| The Big Lebowski | Film | Musical Archivist | 3/6/1998 |
| Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night | TV Special | Musical Director | 1/3/1988 |