Current Biography
Writer / Performer / Producer T Bone Burnett was born Joseph Henry Burnett, January 14, 1948 in St. Louis, Missouri. He grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, where he began making records in 1965, producing Texas blues, country, and rock and roll bands, and occasionally, himself. He now lives and works in Los Angeles, California where he is completing work on two new albums. "Tooth of Crime" was written for the Sam Shepard play of the same name, which premiered in New York in 1997. "The True False Identity" is his first album of original songs since 1992's "The Criminal Un er My Own Hat," for which he received a Grammy nomination. While devoting the balance of 1999 to working on the Coen Brothers' new film, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?," Burnett plans to begin performing songs from the two new albums in preparation for their release early next year.
Music Maker Catalogue
A USA singer/songwriter born in 1945 in Texas [actually it was 1948 in St. Louis, MO]. He produced albums e.g. by Delbert McClinton; joined Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Review tour in 1975, formed the Alpha Band in 1977 [actually 1976] with others from the tour for two [three] albums. Sporadic solo albums since then built a cult following in the USA. He has recently toured with Richard Thompson and Elvis Costello, and produced albums by Costello and Los Lobos. An idiosyncratic artist with a small but impressive body of work. [Donald Clarke, 24th August 1988]