April 19, 2024 in Newsfeed

The Other Side Is Out Now!

T Bone's first album in 20 years, The Other Side is out today. Burnett delves deeply into the myriad genres of American Music, returning to his roots as a singer…
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February 28, 2024 in Newsfeed

“Waiting For You” Out Now!

T Bone's first single from his upcoming album 'The Other Side' is out now! Click here to listen!
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June 11, 2020 in music, Videos

Being There

I hold the epic photograffeur, French artist JR, in the highest regard.
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June 9, 2020 in music

I Wish I Was a Jaybird in the Air

I will let Scott Dunbar speak for himself. Recorded by the great William Ferris. Check out Bill Ferris’ book from Dust to Digital, Voices of Mississippi. And while you’re at…
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June 8, 2020 in music

Dreaming My Dreams With You

This, I think, is the most beautiful country song ever written and the most beautiful country record ever made. Written by Allen Reynolds, Sung by Waylon Jennings, and Produced by…
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June 7, 2020 in Uncategorized

Minister Audrey Tang

Minister Audrey Tang, the Digital Minister of Taiwan, a minister for the 21st Century:   When we see “internet of things,” let’s make it an internet of beings. When we see “virtual…
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July 18, 2019 in Quotes, Real News

Theres more to life than being happy

"It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness."   In September 1942, Viktor Frankl, a prominent Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist in Vienna, was arrested and transported to a…
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July 11, 2019 in Quotes

Staring at a Global Rectangle is no way to live

How the Internet’s most earnest evangelist became its fiercest critic... Read more here
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July 10, 2019 in Books

A New Book Details the Damage Done by the Right-Wing Media in 2016

"The Washington conventional wisdom presupposes a kind of symmetry between our polarized political parties. Liberals and conservatives, it is said, live in separate bubbles, where they watch different television networks,…
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July 4, 2019 in Quotes

STOP CALLING IT THE “SHARING ECONOMY.” THAT ISN’T WHAT IT IS.

“Disruption” isn’t always what you think it is.
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July 3, 2019 in Books

The Originality of The Species

"A frenzied desire to be first inspired Darwin and Einstein to bursts of creativity. Like writers and artists, scientists strive to have their names attached to a work of brilliance,…
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May 29, 2019 in Books

Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs

Did Jane Jacobs Predict the Rise of Trump? Read more here
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May 2, 2019 in Quotes

Quote: George Henry Thomas, 1868

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April 24, 2019 in Quotes

Quantum Reality, Beyond the New Physics

"A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'Universe'; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from…
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April 24, 2019 in Media, Videos

Being There – T Bone Burnett and Artist JR (Video)

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April 24, 2019 in Media, Videos

T Bone Burnett, Jay Bellerose, Keefus Ciancia – Being There (Audio)

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April 22, 2019 in Press

T Bone Burnett’s swan song as a recording artist, ‘The Invisible Light: Acoustic Space’ sounds a big note

A couple of possible interpretations arise out of the sonic effects superstar producer T Bone Burnett uses to tweak his vocals on his first new studio album in a dozen years, “The Invisible…
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April 22, 2019 in Press

T Bone Burnett Wants to Make Music to Heal Shrinking Attention Spans

Joseph Henry Burnett, known as T Bone, has spent most of his long career in music behind the scenes. He has won 13 Grammy Awards as a producer, music supervisor…
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April 22, 2019 in Press

‘Perfection is a second-rate idea’: T Bone Burnett on releasing his first album in 11 years

If you take a look at some of the most acclaimed, bestselling records of the past 30 years, there's a good chance you'll find the name T Bone Burnett in the producer credits.…
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March 27, 2019 in Books

The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder

“A brilliant and disturbing analysis, which should be read by anyone wishing to understand the political crisis currently engulfing the world.” —Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens “Combining topical reporting…
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March 13, 2019 in Real News, speeches, SXSW

T Bone’s SXSW KEYNOTE ADDRESS

I am going to begin today with a quote from Marshall McLuhan from his 1962 book,  The Gutenberg Galaxy: “Instead of tending toward a vast Alexandrian library the world has…
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