The True False Identity [DUAL DISC] [ENHANCED]

T Bone Burnett

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 16, 2006)
• Original Release Date: May 16, 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Dual Disc, Enhanced
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000F8DBDA
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #14,991 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
T Bone Burnett likes to keep his listeners off balance, as his first album of new material in 14 years attests. As a producer, Burnett has been responsible for the commercial breakthrough of emerging bands (Counting Crows, the Wallflowers) and the renewal of venerable artists (Ralph Stanley, Tony Bennett), but mainly he's been renowned for the rootsy Americana he brought to the soundtracks for O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Walk the Line. Here, Burnett extends his musical range across a wide expanse--from tracks that mix the percussive throb of reggae dub with the angular clang of a Tom Waits album ("Zombieland") and spiritual rants on the nature of sin over a heavy metal-blues guitar ("Blinded by the Darkness") to the comparative lilt of a Caribbean rhythm ("Hollywood Mecca of the Movies") and a couple of numbers that suggest the mysterious atmospherics of film noir ("There Would Be Hell to Pay," the politically conscious "Fear Country"). Even when a country tune, "I'm Going on a Long Journey Never to Return," finds him in more comfortable musical territory, the fatal dread of the lyrics belies the warmth of the music. The band--featuring guitarist Marc Ribot and drummer Jim Keltner, long Burnett's instrumental accomplices--sounds capable of taking this music wherever he envisions. It's as if Burnett wields music as a weapon against complacency: his own, the listeners', the culture's. Though this is rarely easy-listening music, the results are never less than challenging. --Don McLeese

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Product Description
CD AUDIO SIDE: * Entire album

DVD SIDE: * Featuring intimate live music and spoken word performances by T Bone, marking the first time T Bone has performed his own material on camera in more than 15 years.

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars T Bone gives steak again, August 29, 2006

By	David B. Hughes (Lincoln, Nebraska) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

T Bone Burnett finally has returned from his producing role to his role as the great roots musician/composer/singer that he is with his new studio CD "The True False Identity." While we were teased a few years back with the smell of a proposed CD of music from a Sam Shepherd play that T Bone wrote and performed some songs for (this project was inexplicibly shelved!), this time we actually get to chew and swallow. The DVD side is a great side dish as well. Finally, some steak after years of listening to other artist's hamburger!