The 1980 Listening Post - T-Bone Burnett - Truth Decay

T-Bone Burnett - Truth Decay

#226

T-Bone Burnett

Truth Decay

Genre: Elegantly competent Rock and Roll

2.75 out of 5

Highlights:

Boomerang

I wanted to add Quicksand to the highlights but…man does it go on and on and on….and that’s what I find about a lot of Burnett’s stuff. It’s all really competent and well performed and yet…there’s little to hang on to. He isn’t trying to be a voice for anyone ala John Mellencamp. He isn’t tryna seduce his audience like Bryan Adams. He’s more like in the Roy Orbison mold. There’s nothing sexy about Roy. But he’s great at what he did. So is T-Bone. But he’s better at frothier people. The intangibles that make a rock star aren’t there. And well played, finely crafted, rock songs aren’t gonna do it. 

The album seems interminable. It borders on Country and, had Burnett not been such a big influence of music going forward, I think a case could be made for exclusion. 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUpA98v1fo8&list=PLlvn8uktX5LusgzqrqUgFbR5MnF1qrnWl

The 1986 Listening Post - T-Bone Burnett - T-Bone Burnett

T-Bone Burnett - T-Bone Burnett

#479/2129

1986 Housekeeping

T-Bone Burnett

T-Bone Burnett

Genre: Rock

3.25 out of 5

Highlights

Requisite 80s Cover: “Time” by Tom Waits. T-Bone’s version is vastly inferior. 

With his Orbison warble but without the warm tone Burnett comes up with a very pleasant set of songs that are very helpful when you are doing the laundry and really don’t want to be too overwhelmed by all the sadness in the world but you still want to feel that sadness, at least at an arm’s length. 

https://music.apple.com/us/album/t-bone-burnett/1443623275