T bone Burnett's new albums

sweetest punch · Post by **sweetest punch** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:39 pm

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T Bone Burnett to Release First New Album in 14 Years The True False Identity in Stores and Online May 16

Twenty Twenty - The Essential T Bone Burnett 40 Song Career Retrospective Set For Simultaneous Release

NEW YORK, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- T Bone Burnett will emerge from a 14-year hiatus as a recording artist to release The True False Identity -- a collection of entirely new songs written and produced by T Bone -- on May 16 on DMZ/Columbia Records. That same day, Legacy Recordings will release the 40-song, 2-disk Twenty Twenty - The Essential T Bone Burnett, the first-ever career retrospective from this quintessential American songwriter and musician.

The DualDisc version of The True False Identity features vidiosyncrasy, a 20-minute film created exclusively for this release. Directed by Jesse Dylan, vidiosyncrasy captures T Bone in a special solo performance of songs and spoken word.

The songs on The True False Identity are the opening of a whole new musical chapter in T Bone's career. According to T Bone, the aim of The True False Identity is to "erase the nonexistent line between comedy and tragedy." The True False Identity is divided into two sections of six songs each: Art of the State includes the songs "Zombieland," "Palestine Texas," "Seven Times Hotter Than Fire," "There Would Be Hell To Pay," "Every Time I Feel The Shift," and "I'm Going On A Long Journey Never To Return" while Poems of the Evening features the songs "Hollywood Mecca of the Movies," "Fear Country," "Baby Don't Say You Love Me," "Earlier Baghdad (The Bounce)," Blinded By The Darkness," and "Shaken Rattled And Rolled."

The songs that make up The True False Identity were conceived during a period of isolation in which T Bone wrote "about 200 pages of couplets and verses, all in longhand." He honed those pages into songs, entered the studio with a thoughtfully selected band of top-flight musicians -- including Jim Keltner, Marc Ribot, Jay Bellerose, Carla Azar, Dennis Crouch, Keefus Ciancia and Bill Maxwell -- and created the extraordinary music that propels the album. The unique percussive and rhythmic textures of The True False Identity are anchored by the use of three drummers on most of the album's tracks, and T Bone's production approach also utilized guitars, bass and keyboards as percussion instruments. "I wanted to put listeners in the middle of this new sound, to experience it almost in 3D," says T Bone.

The musical genesis of The True False Identity has its roots in the records T Bone and his musicians immersed themselves in while recording. Burnett acted as DJ for those sessions, spinning records and videos between takes. "We were listening to Bo Diddley, Howlin' Wolf, The Carter Family, and a lot of Haitian music," he says, "so the axis this music turns on is some kind of line drawn from New Orleans through Mississippi and Tennessee to Haiti."

A definitive overview of T Bone's recording career from 1976-1992, Twenty Twenty - The Essential T Bone Burnett includes songs dating back to the groundbreaking Alpha Band (the group formed in 1976 by T Bone, Steven Soles, and David Mansfield, fellow travelers in Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue); tracks from each of T Bone's solo albums; rarities including "The People's Limousine" (the single T Bone recorded with Elvis Costello as "The Coward Brothers"); and previously unreleased material.

Twenty Twenty - The Essential T Bone Burnett includes a revelatory song-by-song annotation written by T Bone Burnett and a fascinating new essay chronicling T Bone and his times penned by noted pop music critic and author Bill Flanagan.

Albums represented on Twenty Twenty - The Essential T Bone Burnett include The Alpha Band (Arista, 1976); Spark In The Dark (Arista, 1977); Truth Decay (Takoma, 1980); Trap Door (Warner Bros. EP, 1982); Proof Through The Night (Warner Bros., 1983); Behind The Trap Door (Demon EP, 1984); T-Bone Burnett (Dot, 1986); The Talking Animals (Columbia, 1988); and The Criminal Under My Own Hat (Columbia, 1992).

T Bone's 14 year hiatus from recording and performing paved the way for one of music's most multi-faceted and successful careers. His multitude of musical identities include: Grammy-winning producer (the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack, the Tony Bennett and k.d. lang album, A Wonderful World); Oscar-nominated songwriter ("The Scarlet Tide" from Cold Mountain); indie record label founder (DMZ Records); soundtrack composer/Executive Music Producer (Walk The Line, The Big Lebowski) and versatile studio wizard (Elvis Costello, Roy Orbison, Tony Bennett, k.d. lang, Alison Krauss, Counting Crows, the Wallflowers, Sam Phillips, Gillian Welch, and Ralph Stanley).

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:40 pm

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The True False Identity
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Release Date: May 16, 2006

1. Zombieland

2. Palestine Texas

3. Seven Times Hotter Than Fire

4. There Would Be Hell To Pay

5. Every Time I Feel the Shift

6. I'm Going On A Long Journey Never To Return

7. Hollywood - Mecca Of The Movies

8. Fear Country

9. Baby Don't You Say You Love Me

10. Earlier Baghdad

11. Blinded By The Darkness

12. Shaken, Rattled And Rolled

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Twenty Twenty: The Essential T Bone Burnett
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Release Date: May 16, 2006

Disc One

1. Humans From Earth

2. Born In Captivity

3. Primitives

4. Power Of Love

5. Fatally Beautiful

6. Monkey Dance

7. The Long Time Now

8. River Of Love

9. Shut It Tight

10. Tear This Building Down

11. The Murder Weapon

12. Image

13. Kill Zone

14. Hula Hoop

15. Criminals

16. Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend

17. No Love At All

18. When The Night Falls

19. Over You

20. The Bird That I Held In My Hand

Disc Two

1. Every Little Thing

2. House Of Mirrors

3. The Dogs

4. Shake Yourself Loose

5. Kill Switch

6. I Wish You Could Have Seen Her Dance

7. Hefner And Disney

8. Drivin Wheel

9. Boomerang

10. Euromad

11. Strange Combination

12. East Of East

13. The People's Limousine

14. Trap Door

15. I'm Coming Home

16. It's Not Too Late

17. Song To A Dead Man

18. After All These Years

19. Man, Don't Dog Your Woman

20. Bon Temps Rouler

Mikeh · Post by **Mikeh** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 7:11 am

Shame the best of misses one of T Bone's best songs - Having a Wonderful Time, Wish You Were Her.

Mike Boom · Post by **Mike Boom** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 9:53 am

That is a terrible omission - also no "Sixties" ??

Mikeh · Post by **Mikeh** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 8:43 am

Also, no Strange Case of Frank Cash & the Morning Paper! I saw T Bone supporting EC in Harrogate in 1984. He was unknown at that time and started his set with an acapella King of the Road. Brave or what????