T Bone Burnett
Subtitle: a life in pursuit
By: Lloyd Sachs
Edition: First edition.
Series: American music series; American music series (Austin, Tex.)
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781477303771
Subjects: Sound recording executives and producers; Musicians; Biography
Description: T Bone Burnett is a unique, astonishingly prolific music producer, singer-songwriter, guitarist, and soundtrack visionary. Renowned as a studio maven with a Midas touch, Burnett is known for lifting artists to their greatest heights, as he did with Raising Sand, the multiple Grammy Award-winning album by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, as well as acclaimed albums by Los Lobos, the Wallflowers, B. B. King, and Elvis Costello. Burnett virtually invented "Americana" with his hugely successful roots-based soundtrack for the Coen Brothers film, O Brother, Where Art Thou? Outspoken in his contempt for the entertainment industry, Burnett has nevertheless received many of its highest honors, including Grammy Awards and an Academy Award. T Bone Burnett offers the first critical appreciation of Burnett's wide-ranging contributions to American music, his passionate advocacy for analog sound, and the striking contradictions that define his maverick artistry. Lloyd Sachs highlights all the important aspects of Burnett's musical pursuits, from his early days as a member of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue and his collaboration with the playwright Sam Shepard to the music he recently composed for the TV shows Nashville and True Detective and his production of the all-star album Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes. Sachs also underscores Burnett's brilliance as a singer-songwriter in his own right. Going well beyond the labels "legendary" or "visionary" that usually accompany his name, T Bone Burnett reveals how this consummate music maker has exerted a powerful influence on American music and culture across four decades.--Amazon.com.
Notes: "The kill squad : a short list of longtime musical associates": pages 211-215.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-234), discography (pages 219-223), and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Opening chorus : on top of the world (or close); title: Sound citizen; title: The outsider; title: Player in the band; title: Alpha male; title: Spiritual gumshoe; title: Master builder; title: Co-conspirator; title: Seeker; title: Svengali; title: Imagist; title: Native son; title: Mentor; title: Hit man; title: Reluctant artist; title: Starmaker; title: Company man; title: Coen brother; title: Soundtrack auteur; title: Minimalist; title: Lead actor; title: Alchemist; title: Jazz man; title: Blues man; title: Senior adviser; title: Audio activist; title: Dylanologist; title: Televisionary; title: Back to the futurist.