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Newsweek, April, 2006

T Bone's Time

"I figured out early on what I wanted to do," says T Bone Burnett. "I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer. I wanted to be Burt Bacharach. Write tunes. Produce music. Be married to Angie Dickinson." At least he's two for four. During his 40 years in music, Burnett has worked with such artists as Roy Orbison and Counting Crows, toured with Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, wrote music for plays by Sam Shepard and formed a band of his own. He's worked on film soundtracks, most recently "Walk the Line." Now, on May 16, Burnett will release a new album of his own--the first in 14 years--along with a generous anthology of his earlier work as a singer and songwriter. For Jac Chebatoris's full...

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