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With a client list that has included, over the last few years, the likes of Elvis Costello, Los Lobos, Marshall Crenshaw, the BoDeans and Peter Case, TBone Burnett has rather emphatically established himself as one of the most important producers fighting the good fight for rock ’n’ roll in the 1980s.
PRIME CUT
T-BONE BURNETT (MCA/Dot)
by
Billy Altman
With a client list that has included, over the last few years, the likes of Elvis Costello, Los Lobos, Marshall Crenshaw, the BoDeans and Peter Case, TBone Burnett has rather emphatically established himself as one of the most important producers fighting the good fight for rock ’n’ roll in the 1980s. But if Burnett’s name is only familiar to you as a producer, then you’ve been missing half of a great story, because on those all too rare occasions when Mr. Burnett decides to make his own records, we get to hear one of the most important artists fighting the good fight as well. How good a fight does T-Bone Burnett wage? Well, his new album is one of the finest LPs I’ve heard all year. And how interesting a fight does T-Bone Burnett wage? Well, how does an all acoustic LP grab you?