T Bone Burnett
Biography
T Bone Burnett, born in St. Louis and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, is an American songwriter, guitarist, singer, and record producer. He played guitar in Bob Dylan's band in the 1970s, toured with the Rolling Thunder Revue, and formed the Alpha Band before releasing solo albums of his own. As a producer he worked on breakthrough records by Los Lobos, Counting Crows, and Gillian Welch, and he won a Grammy for producing Raising Sand (2007) for Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. He wrote the score and produced the soundtrack for O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), an album that won Grammy Awards, and he later earned Grammys for his soundtrack work on Walk the Line (2005), Crazy Heart (2010), and Cold Mountain (2004). He shared an Academy Award with Ryan Bingham for the song The Weary Kind and produced the Elton John and Leon Russell album The Union (2011).
78years old
Turns 79 on January 14in 91 days
- Born St. Louis
- Star sign: CapricornThe sign runs December 22 to January 19
- Also credited as Joseph Henry Burnett III
Movie Career
- Films
- 3
- Career span
- 23 years1988 to 2011
Every film, newest first
- 2011The UnionIMDb rating 7.2
- 2003The Soul of a ManIMDb rating 7.3
- 1988Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White NightIMDb rating 8.8
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First role
Burnett's first production credit came in 1967, when he wrote and co-produced a single for his band The Loose Ends under the alias Jon T. Bone.
About the name
Burnett formed the band The Loose Ends and took the stage name Jon T. Bone, writing and recording the 1966 single "Free Soul"/"He's A Nobody".
A change of course
Burnett was so opposed to brighter and more compressed processing that he largely left the music business around 1995 and 1996. He then pursued theater work with Sam Shepard, which led to several films.
A change of course
Early in his career, Burnett produced "Paralyzed" and played drums on it. The song was a novelty hit for the Legendary Stardust Cowboy, and Burnett was credited as J. Henry Burnett.
About the name
Burnett and Elvis Costello released a 1985 single as the Coward Brothers, with Burnett credited as Henry Coward, and revived the personas for a full album in 2024.
Behind the camera
Burnett wrote songs for Sam Shepard's play The Tooth of Crime: Second Dance, inspired by the music of Skip James, and released an album of them in 2008.
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Worked with
T Bone Burnett shares two films with Bonnie Raitt, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Bonnie Raitt's page
Laurence Fishburne's page
Harry Dean Stanton's page
Elton John's page
Tom Waits's page
Bruce Springsteen's page
All films by Wim Wenders
All films by Cameron Crowe
Awards
Two awards and honors, two of them major.
| Year | Award | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academy Awards | |||
| 2010 | Best Original Song | The Weary Kind | Won |
| Grammy Awards | |||
| Grammy Awards | Won | ||
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.