T Bone Burnett

T-Bone Burnett is an American songwriter, musician and producer. He was born Joseph Henry Burnett in St. Louis, Missouri, and raised in Fort Worth, Texas. He released two albums in 2006 after a 14 year break from solo recordings: The True False Identity, his first album of new songs since 1992, and Twenty Twenty - The Essential T-Bone Burnett, a 40 song retrospective spanning his career. Burnett’s time away from recording and performing led him to other undertakings. He produced various artists such as Tony Bennett and k.d. lang on the A Wonderful World album and The Wallflowers on Bringing Down the Horse. Burnett won a Grammy award for the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack. He worked as a songwriter, and was nominated for an Oscar for his contribution to the film Cold Mountain. He founded the record label DMZ, an imprint of Columbia, and was involved with Mark Heard and Tonio K in the short-lived What? Records. He also oversaw the music for the films Walk the Line and The Big Lebowski.