With 50-years’ experience in music and entertainment, T Bone Burnett has earned an unparalleled reputation as an innovative artist, songwriter, producer, performer, film and concert producer, and artists’ advocate. An Academy Award and Golden Globe winner, and 13-time Grammy Award winner, Burnett has worked and collaborated with musicians across many genres, including Elton John, Robert Plant, Alison Krauss, B.B. King, Sara Bareilles, Tony Bennett, k.d. lang, Elvis Costello, The Civil Wars, Taylor Swift, Ryan Bingham, Steve Earle, and Leon Russell.
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With 50-years’ experience in music and entertainment, T Bone Burnett has earned an unparalleled reputation as an innovative artist, songwriter, producer, performer, film and concert producer, and artists’ advocate. An Academy Award and Golden Globe winner, and 13-time Grammy Award winner, Burnett has worked and collaborated with musicians across many genres, including Elton John, Robert Plant, Alison Krauss, B.B. King, Sara Bareilles, Tony Bennett, k.d. lang, Elvis Costello, The Civil Wars, Taylor Swift, Ryan Bingham, Steve Earle, and Leon Russell.
Accompanied by numerous film clips and decades’ worth of stories, Burnett takes audiences on a tour of his work with some of the biggest names in music and film and discusses his love of collaboration and what drives his prolific creativity.
Burnett’s first major foray into film was his collaboration with the Coen Brothers on The Big Lebowski, and has since held multiple titles for numerous films including Roma, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Cold Mountain, The Hunger Games, Walk The Line, Inside Llewyn Davis and Crazy Heart, for which he served as one of the film’s producers. He also has multiple credits in television including as the Executive Music Producer and Composer for the HBO series True Detective, and the first season of the ABC television series Nashville.
Burnett’s latest solo album, “The Invisible Light: Acoustic Space,” is the first part of a trilogy of “Invisible Light” albums that will tackle the “programming pandemic” we’ve been experiencing for the last century.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Burnett grew up in Fort Worth, Texas where he first began writing songs and making records. While traveling the country as a freelance record producer, T Bone was asked by Bob Dylan to play guitar in his band on the (now-legendary) Rolling Thunder Revue tour, leading Burnett to form the Alpha Band with David Mansfield and Steven Soles.
Burnett made three acclaimed albums with the group before making a string of solo records in the 1980s at the end of which, he began to work in film, beginning with Roy Orbison’s A Black and White Night.
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ON THE ROAD WITH T BONE BURNETT: STORIES, MUSIC & MOVIES
PRODUCING RESULTS: AN INSIDE LOOK AT PRODUCTIVITY & CREATIVITY WITH T BONE BURNETT
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WATCH: 'Artists are our only hope,' says T Bone Burnett in critique of big tech
T Bone Burnett on New Ionic Original Recording of Blowin' In The Wind by Bob Dylan
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