Twenty Twenty - The Essential T Bone Burnett

T Bone Burnett - Twenty Twenty - The Essential T Bone Burnett

Twenty Twenty - The Essential T Bone Burnett
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Artist: T Bone Burnett
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-05-16
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Humans From Earth
  2. Born In Captivity - Alpha Band
  3. Primitives
  4. Power Of Love
  5. Fatally Beautiful
  6. Monkey Dance
  7. The Long Time Now
  8. River Of Love
  9. Shut It Tight
  10. Tear This Building Down
  11. The Murder Weapon
  12. Image
  13. Kill Zone
  14. Hula Hoop
  15. Criminals
  16. Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend
  17. No Love At All
  18. When The Night Falls
  19. Over You
  20. The Bird That I Held In My Hand
Music CD 2
  1. Every Little Thing
  2. House Of Mirrors
  3. The Dogs - Alpha Band
  4. Shake Yourself Loose
  5. Kill Switch
  6. I Wish You Could Have Seen Her Dance
  7. Hefner And Disney
  8. Drivin Wheel
  9. Boomerang
  10. Euromad
  11. Strange Combination
  12. East Of East - Alpha Band
  13. The People's Limousine
  14. Trap Door
  15. I'm Coming Home
  16. It's Not Too Late
  17. Song To A Dead Man
  18. After All These Years
  19. Man, Don't Dog Your Woman
  20. Bon Temps Rouler

Free Music Notes for Twenty Twenty - The Essential T Bone Burnett

Free Music Review: a great collection, but any fan will quibble
Hit: 5 Stars

After 14 years of retreat from making his own music, carving out a phenomenal career as a producer, T Bone Burnett returns in 2006 in a big way, with a new album and this 2-disc retrospective. It is generously packed with, of course, 20 tracks on each disc, a look back with 20/20 hindsight (typical clever T Bone wordplay), and a great 52-page booklet with all the lyrics and sometimes fascinating and revealing notes from T Bone about the songs. I can't give it less than 5 stars -- in its own right it's fantastic.

I agree with those who wish T Bone would allow the CD reissue of PROOF THROUGH THE NIGHT (1983) and TRAP DOOR (1982), both Columbia/Sony releases, the label which put out TWENTY TWENTY. (Seven cuts from PROOF are included here, and of those all but two have been "newly produced" by T Bone, the exceptions being "Shut It Tight" and "After All These Years.") But I take issue with those who think PROOF was his best album -- for me, THE CRIMINAL UNDER MY OWN HAT (1992) is clearly his masterpiece (see my review). So one of my minor complaints about this compilation is that it includes nearly all of that album, not surprising, since every song is pure genius (interesting that the cover, a general in handcuffs, is taken from one of the two songs *not* included from CRIMINALS -- "I Can Explain Everything"). But I don't see TWENTY TWENTY replacing CRIMINAL by any means, which is brilliant all the way through, without a weak track, and works together as an album, greater than the sum of the songs. So for me, it would have been better to include more non-CRIMINAL tracks, because I'm going to keep listening to CRIMINAL separately anyway.

I heard all the pre-CRIMINAL T Bone originally on WXRT, the Chicago radio station. It's great to hear "Boomerang" from TRUTH DECAY (1980) and "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" from TRAP DOOR, which were XRT favorites and which I haven't heard in years. "The Peoples' Limousine," from 1986, was one of the best songs of 1986 with a killer ringing guitar riff, by the Coward Brothers (T Bone and Elvis Costello), and was in heavy rotation at XRT. Frustratingly unavailable for years, it finally appeared on the expanded edition of Elvis's great KING OF AMERICA (produced by T Bone) in 1995 or so, and here it is again. T Bone relates in the notes the actual observations from touring in Italy that led to the song. Two of the songs from PROOF ("Shut It Tight" and "When the Night Falls") are great, the others not so much. THE TALKING ANIMALS (1988) was T Bone's weakest album (too much concept, not enough song), and the only track from it here that's not too bad is "Monkey Dance." But the album's best track by far is missing -- "The Strange Case of Frank Cash and the Morning Paper," another XRT favorite. We finally get to hear an excellent song ("Kill Zone") from the TOOTH OF CRIME soundtrack for Sam Shepard's play, which tantalized us back in 2000 and was never finally released by Nonesuch. "The Dogs" sounds vaguely familiar, and it's because it's from the first, self-titled album from THE ALPHA BAND from 1976, which I had at the time. The closing number is a new one, 2006 vintage, that sounds more like the new THE TRUE FALSE IDENTITY (see my review), a slow New Orleans gumbo sizzler called "Bon Temps Rouler'."

TWENTY TWENTY reveals T Bone's weakness for concepts and lyrics not translated into good or even actual songs (ie, Born in Captivity, East of East, The Murder Weapon, Hula Hoop, Hefner and Disney, Image, Euromad), and also includes some simple heartfelt classics that have been lost in time (ie, Power of Love, Driving Wheel, River of Love, The Bird That I Held in My Hand, I'm Coming Home). In my view, T Bone managed to perfectly combine high concept with tuneful songwriting, great musicianship, and brilliant lyrics in THE CRIMINAL UNDER MY OWN HAT.

Quibbling aside, it's great to have more of T Bone's music to listen to on CD!
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Twenty Twenty - The Essential T Bone Burnett Poster

40-song retrospective spanning Burnett?s entire career of music-making. This 2-CD set is released simultaneously with The True False Identity, T Bone?s first album of new original songs since 1992. It is no coincidence that T Bone is releasing both a retrospective and a new album on the same day. In his liner notes for Twenty Twenty, he writes "This is they way I wanted to close the book on these songs from a dead man, and open the book on the new life I am beginning after forty years of wandering in the desert."
Nobody writes better about surface and depth, illusion and essence, through parable and paradox, than T Bone Burnett. Though he's had more influence as a producer and catalyst (from his days with Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Review to his visionary masterminding of the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack), this two-disc, 40-song retrospective dating back to 1977 celebrates his accomplishment as a unique recording artist. Burnett's range extends from the purest of plain-spoken country songs ("No Love at All," "River of Love," "The Bird That I Held in My Hand," "I'm Coming Home") to spoken-word enigmas such as "House of Mirrors" and "Hefner and Disney" (with the two switching identities as soulmates in Never Wonder Land) that challenge the listener to resolve the complexities. Among the other standouts are the surging rock of "I Wish You Could Have Seen Her Dance" and "Boomerang," the roadhouse rockabilly of "Driving Wheel," the teaming with Elvis Costello (as the Coward Brothers) on "The People's Limousine," and the deadpan reading of "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend." Rather than following a chronological or musical progression, the anthology dares fans to connect the dots and risk stylistic whiplash in the process. With the simultaneous release of The True False Identity, Burnett's first album of new material since 1992, listeners can discover where he's been as well as where he's going. --Don McLeese

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