T Bone Burnett : a life in pursuit / Lloyd Sachs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sachs, Lloyd, author.

Series:

American music series (Austin, Tex.)

American Music Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burnett, T-Bone.

Sound recording executives and producers--United States--Biography.

Sound recording executives and producers.

Musicians--United States--Biography.

Musicians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, 2016.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Opening chorus : on top of the world (or close)

Sound citizen

The outsider

Player in the band

Alpha male

Spiritual gumshoe

Master builder

Co-conspirator

Seeker

Svengali

Imagist

Native son

Mentor

Hit man

Reluctant artist

Starmaker

Company man

Coen brother

Soundtrack auteur

Minimalist

Lead actor

Alchemist

Jazz man

Blues man

Senior adviser

Audio activist

Dylanologist

Televisionary

Back to the futurist.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, discography and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4773-1155-6