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Born Joseph Henry Burnett in St. Louis, Missouri, T Bone grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, where he first made records in 1965, producing Texas blues, country, and rock & roll bands and, occasionally, himself. In the early 1970s, he relocated to Los Angeles, where he still lives and works as a producer and recording artist. In 1975, he toured with Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Review tour before forming his own group, the Alpha Band, with other musicians from the tour.\n\nBurnett returned to recording solo in the late 1970s and has gone on to record numerous critically acclaimed albums--including 1992's Grammy nominated Criminal Under My Own Hat--under his own name. He has written music for two Sam Shepard plays--\"Tooth of Crime (Second Dance)\" and \"The Late Henry Moss\"--and composed music for a production of Bertolt Brecht's \"Mother Courage and Her Children\" by Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company.\n\nA prolific and versatile producer, T Bone Burnett has helmed highly successful recordings for Elvis Costello, Roy Orbison, Tony Bennett, k.d. lang, Alison Krauss, Counting Crows, the Wallflowers, Sam Phillips, Gillian Welch, and Ralph Stanley among numerous others. Burnett was musical director for the concert film, \"Roy Orbison and Friends: Black and White Night,\" which featured Orbison and an all-star band of Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt, Burnett and many others.
Links:2018-09-09 (Ended) | T Bone Burnett: Stories, Music & Movies | Luther Burbank Center for the Arts Santa Rosa California , United States | Find Tickets |