Twenty Twenty - The Essential [2 CD Set]
T Bone Burnett wants you to know who he is. He wants you to know that he isn't just an esteemed producer and collaborator for artists like Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, Roy Orbison, Ry Cooder, and Ralph Stanley; and he certainly isn't the beard-stroking archivist type a lot of us probably began to envision him as in the fourteen years since his last record, during which he became better known than ever for his production and soundtrack work (think O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Cold Mountain) than for his own music.
T Bone Burnett is a staggeringly versatile artist. For proof of that fact, one need look no further than the first disc of Twenty Twenty - The Essential T-Bone Burnett. Sure, there's plenty of the austere Americana one might expect from the guy behind Down from the Mountain; but there's also everything from seething, tuneful quasi-New Wave (Monkey Dance) to stomping blues-rock (Tear This Building Down) to white reggae (the Alpha Band's Born in Captivity), from the dark-hearted jangle pop of Fatally Beautiful to a whole load of atmospheric, ominous avant-roots music, calling to mind the Bob Dylan of Infidels and Time Out of Mind. ~ Full Review at BlogCritics
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