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T-Bone Burnett

A collection of 15 posts

"A Long Obedience in the Same Direction."

It's a Nietzsche quote. The essential thing 'in heaven and earth' is . . . that there should be long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living. It's the title of

The Browser, 6/3: Colbert's graduation speech; Robert Randolph's next.

The Browser: News & links to raise your eyebrows & furrow your brow. - Stephen Colbert at Princeton Don't change the world! * T-Bone Burnett to produce Robert Randolph album Wow. Smoke will billow from the speakers.

On Songs & Albums

Buzz About This Album Began in 1994. On May 6, It's Here.

Music reviewer extraordinaire Andy Whitman has already heard it, and he's posted some comments at ArtsandFaith.com.

On Songs & Albums

T-Bone Burnett's "Tooth of Crime" Album - Due May 13 (Finally!)

I can't believe my eyes. USA Today reports T-Bone Burnett's Tooth of Crime, the album of material he wrote as accompaniment to the Sam Shepard play of the same title, is coming out on Nonesuch on May 13. This collection has been talked about for, what?

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising Sand (2007)

If you haven't heard Raising Sand, you're in for a treat. Who would have thought that we'd ever see the collaboration by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss? Who was bold enough to dream they'd perform songs by Tom Waits and Sam Phillips

On Songs & Albums

Vintage T-Bone Burnett

Interested in some vintage T-Bone Burnett music? Check it out. Rhino is releasing a deluxe package of Proof Through the Night and Trap Door (or, to be exact, The Complete Trap Door). Thanks to Jim Bricker for the alert!

Sam Phillips's The Turning: Rediscovered at NPR

Today, NPR posted... of all things... a review of the album that was a turning point in my life. The Turning, by Leslie Phillips (now Sam Phillips), continues to win praise for its excellence and vision twenty years after its release, whereas most albums from the contemporary Christian music market

On Songs & Albums

Paste-ing T Bone Burnett

T Bone Burnett talks to Paste Magazine's Steve Turner.

The Innocence Mission

Three new first-impression reviews: T Bone Burnett, Over the Rhine, Innocence Mission

THE TRUE FALSE REPORT I've just posted three new, short reviews on the Looking Closer music page. T Bone Burnett's The True False Identity Over the Rhine's Live from Nowhere, Volume One and The Innocence Mission's re-mastered version of Birds of My

On Movies & Media

"The True False Identity" and Author Photos

Today was a good day. Today, I purchased five general admission floor tickets for the T Bone Burnett concert in Seattle, which will take place on Sunday, June 11. And I listened to his new album for the third time. And in what is promising to be a very, very

Frederick Buechner

Specials: GetReligion gets T Bone Burnett. D.C. gets Buechner.

A happy Saturday to you all. It's a happy Saturday here as I watch and wait for T Bone Burnett tickets to go on sale. If any of you hear about the Seattle show's ticket information, please let me know! MATTINGLY ON T-BONE BURNETT AND FAITH

On Songs & Albums

Newsweek notices T-Bone Burnett

Newsweek earns some integrity points by noticing T-Bone Burnett's new album, and even doing an interview. Perhaps surprisingly, Burnett is also going out on tour. “I want to write songs and play them for people—live,” he says. “Because in this age of mechanical reproduction, where we’re

On Movies & Media

T-Bone Burnett on "Walk the Line," Cassandra Wilson, producing, and his new album

Yahoo posts a T-Bone Burnett interview. In it, Burnett says, "I'm trying not to produce records anymore." This is what he told my friend Martin and me more than a decade ago during an interview. We'll see if he starts trying harder, considering he&

On Songs & Albums

13 Years of Waiting are Coming to an End for T-Bone Burnett Fans

Billboard has the scoop.T-Bone Burnett's new album is on the way.

Sam Phillips - The Looking Closer Interview

Introduction: An interview anticipated for two decades. I was 22 years old when I attended my first "celebrity interview." This was in 1992. I was a sophomore in college, and a music reviewer for the school newspaper The Falcon. My very first piece for that paper had been