T Bone Burnett - The True False Identity
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Artist: T Bone BurnettEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-05-16
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Zombieland
- Palestine Texas
- Seven Times Hotter Than Fire
- There Would Be Hell To Pay
- Every Time I Feel the Shift
- I'm Going On A Long Journey Never To Return
- Hollywood Mecca Of The Movies
- Fear Country
- Baby Don't You Say You Love Me
- Earlier Baghdad (The Bounce)
- Blinded By The Darkness
- Shaken Rattled And Rolled
Free Music Notes for The True False Identity
Free Music Review: T Bone is one angry dude
Hit: 5 Stars
T Bone Burnett returns! 14 years after his masterpiece THE CRIMINAL UNDER MY OWN HAT (see my review), T Bone is not so introspective. He is righteously angry at Bush and the Cheney/Bush Faction, and he has crafted a brilliant, innovative sound to convey his thoughts and feelings.
Notice his Civil War uniform on the cover. Notice how he holds his guitar like a rifle. This is a war, a fight for souls. T Bone says he tried to forget everything he knew about making music for this album. Actually, he says he didn't have to try, he really forgot sometime back in the '90s, and had to start over. With the help of long-time collaborators Marc Ribot (guitar), Jim Keltner (drums) and others, including 3 drummers on most tracks and loping bass lines, he has created a powerful sound that is rooted in African-American music (blues, New Orleans, and Haiti) rather than the white/country influences he has immersed himself in since the 1970s. This is one of those old-fashioned ALBUMS which works as a whole, not just a ramshackle collection of songs.
From the opening track, "Zombieland," we are immersed in evil, and it takes little imagination to realize its source. In "Palestine, Texas," he comes right out and blasts Bush, saying he will need a "soul transfusion" when he comes out of his "self-delusion." (This seems kind and generous to me, but then T Bone doesn't rule out a prison cell either.) Ribot's guitar snarls with maximum effectiveness. "Seven Times Hotter Than Fire" is one of the best songs on the album, with an infectious rhythm, perfectly suited to radio airplay. The other three songs with great melodies that work the best as stand-alone radio-worthy songs are "I'm Going On a Long Journey Never to Return," "Baby Don't Say You Love Me," and "Shaken Rattled and Rolled." There's only one "song" that I don't much care for, and that's "Blinded By the Darkness," a rant against the "Christian" right with some great lyrics, but not much music. T Bone points out that if sin was legislated, we would all be in prison, and then "there would be no one to get the food, or run the machines -- mercy on us, dude!"
One of my favorite moments on the album is the coda to "Every Time I Feel the Shift," with the repeated lyric to a marching beat "We're marching up to Zion, the beautiful city of God." It is amazing that the album was recorded prior to Katrina, because it has a strong New Orleans feel, and it is strongly in tune with the Gospel morality of the Black community. African-Americans oppose Bush and the Republicans at a consistent level of about 90%. T Bone stakes a claim here to HIS Christianity! Interestingly, the chorus of "Long Journey" -- "Oh this death, moment by moment, darker and darker, down and down, I feel your cold breath -- I feel your cold breath" -- can be taken as an application of the Buddhist injunction to face death and suffering at all times as it reminds us of the impermanence of the world, and points us toward liberation.
The lyric to "Earlier Baghdad (the bounce)" is open, I'm sure, to multiple interpretations, but I took the title as a hint -- try listening to it as an alternative speech Saddam might have given when he was apprehended. With that in mind, try listening to "Baby Don't Say You Love Me" with Iraq's Shiites singing it to America (or any number of other casualties of realpolitik in foreign policy). Honestly, this song should be a #1 radio hit!
T Bone closes with the stunning "Shaken Rattled and Rolled," a statement of his faith. Faith is something we need to get through these times. Though THE TRUE FALSE IDENTITY is dark, I find it inspiring. It is clearly one of the best records of the year and of the decade, and I wholeheartedly recommend it to all progressive people as we try to follow the Light through the darkness.
Thank you, T Bone! Let's put our shoulders to the Wheel, and keep it turning...
The True False Identity Poster
CD AUDIO SIDE: * Entire albumDVD 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.
T-Bone Burnett has been hard at it since his last record of original songs in 1992: nominated for a songwriting Oscar, winning a production Grammy, composing movie soundtracks, and serving as one of his trade's most valuable studio musicians. But with those most fascinated by his remarkable resume, it's all about the songwriting, and on The True False Identity, Burnett substantiates his role as a composer and performer steeped in traditional American music. Backed by a scrupulous cast of players and drawing on his candidly innovative wordplay, Burnett not only has put the world on notice, he appears far from content with the outlook. "The cat's out of the bag/And it ain't going back," he pleads wearily over a machine-gun drum in "Fear Country," one of several tunes where Burnett enunciates more as dustbowl rapper than west coast songster. His relevant narrations include an undercurrent of religion in law ("Blinded by the Darkness"), the modification of history ("Every Time I Feel the Shift") and a cadenced appraisal of Frank Sinatra and his running buddies ("Palestine, Texas"). Teaming a Dylan-like poetry scheme with a searing guitar lead, "Palestine" begins as a mis chievous nursery rhyme, until Burnett aims his invective at the nation's leaders: "When you come out of this self-delusion/You're gonna need a soul transfusion." Listening to The True False Identity, we've already got ours. --Scott Holter
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