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T Bone Burnett Taps Into a River of Love for His First Acoustic Album in Decades: ‘In a Way It Feels Like My First Solo Record, at All’
T Bone Burnett talks about 'The Other Side,' his first true new solo effort in 18 years, along with production work, like a record with Ringo Starr.
And even when he stepped away from releasing solo albums for decades — focusing on production work, winning Grammys for “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” and the first Robert Plant/Alison Krauss collaboration — his writing or public speeches were prone to sounding warnings, about everything from degraded audio quality to Silicon Valley making artists’ lives more difficult. I was working with Audible on audio-only stuff, doing some things they call “Words + Music.” And in recording my voice, I dropped down into my chest to read the stories because I found it more listenable, so that was part of it. And then I was working on an Audible piece with Elvis Costello and Christopher Guest called “The True Story of the Coward Brothers,” and we recorded some songs; I was singing in that voice, and they were very encouraging, and then I just started doing that.
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