“There’s a river of love that runs through all times,” the singer-producer T Bone Burnett sang in a signature song of his back in the 1980s. But that’s not a river he’s necessarily always been riding. A lot of music from his debut solo album, 1980’s “Truth Decay,” on forward (and even going back to his late 1970s albums with the Alpha Band) has been in the cautionary tale vein. And even when he stepped away from releasing solo albums for decades — focusing on production work, winning Grammys for “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” and the first Robert Plant/Alison Krauss collaboration — his writing or public speeches were
→ Continue reading at Variety
