25 Facts About T-Bone Burnett

Joseph Henry "T Bone" T-Bone Burnett III was born on January 14,1948 and is an American record producer, guitarist and songwriter.

T-Bone Burnett helped start the careers of Counting Crows, Los Lobos, Sam Phillips and Gillian Welch, and he revitalized the careers of Gregg Allman and Roy Orbison.

T-Bone Burnett'sgrandfather worked as secretary for the Southern Baptist Convention.

T-Bone Burnett'sfather wanted to be a pro athlete and was courted by the Brooklyn Dodgers, but instead, he got a job in Fort Worth with the Tandy Corporation.

T-Bone Burnett was brought up in the Episcopal Church of his mother.

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T-Bone Burnett discovered music through his parents' 78 RPM phonograph records of Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Mahalia Jackson, Dinah Washington, and the songs of Cole Porter.

T-Bone Burnett was enamored with the live version of the song "Wrought Iron Rag" by the Dixieland revival band Wilbur de Paris and His New New Orleans Jazz.

T-Bone Burnett'sparents had divorced when he was in high school, and his father, with whom he was living, died in 1967.

T-Bone Burnett produced and played drums on "Paralyzed", the novelty hit by the Legendary Stardust Cowboy.

In 1980, T-Bone Burnett released his first post-Alpha Band solo album, Truth Decay, produced by Reggie Fisher, on the Takoma Records label.

T-Bone Burnett toured after the release of Trap Door, opening several dates for The Who, leading a band that featured Mick Ronson on guitar.

T-Bone Burnett's1983 album Proof Through the Night, whose song "When the Night Falls" got some FM airplay, and his 1987 album The Talking Animals were more in the vein of 1980s new wave music, while his self-titled 1986 album was an album of acoustic country music.

The True False Identity was his first album of new songs since 1992, and Twenty Twenty – The Essential T Bone T-Bone Burnett was a 40-song career retrospective.

Some of T-Bone Burnett's recordings were among hundreds of others whose material was destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.

In 1985, T-Bone Burnett collaborated with Elvis Costello on the single "The People's Limousine", using the moniker "The Coward Brothers".

In early 2008, Pete Townshend announced that T-Bone Burnett was to go into the studio that fall to help produce an all-covers album for The Who.

In 2009, T-Bone Burnett produced albums for Moonalice and Grace Potter and the Nocturnals.

T-Bone Burnett produced a collaboration album by Elton John and Leon Russell.

In 2010, T-Bone Burnett produced Gregg Allman's album Low Country Blues, released in January 2011.

In 2014, T-Bone Burnett produced Punch Brothers' fourth studio album, The Phosphorescent Blues, which was released in January 2015.

In 1992, T-Bone Burnett worked on some songs with his friend River Phoenix for the movie The Thing Called Love.

For producing the soundtrack albums for these two films, and for his wife Sam Phillips's album Fan Dance, T-Bone Burnett won the 2002 Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical.

T-Bone Burnett went on to produce the less popular gospel soundtrack to the Coens' The Ladykillers.

In 2009, T-Bone Burnett collaborated on music for the movie Crazy Heart, winning a Golden Globe, an Academy Award, and a Grammy Award for the song "The Weary Kind", which he composed with Ryan Bingham.

T-Bone Burnett was a producer of the film, along with Jeff Bridges and Robert Duvall.

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