1916 Maxwell Davis*
1938 Allen Toussaint*
1948 T-Bone Burnett*
1963 Matthias Baumgardt*
1982 Marc Broussard*
1992 Left Hand Frank Craig+
2003 Little Hatch+
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Allen Toussaint *14.01.1938
Allen Toussaint (* 14. Januar 1938 in New Orleans, Louisiana; † 9. November 2015 in Madrid) war ein amerikanischer Musiker und einer der einflussreichsten Plattenproduzenten der 1960er Jahre in New Orleans. Als Pianospieler mit eigenem Stil arrangierte, produzierte und komponierte er große Hits für US-amerikanische Interpreten.
Werdegang
Mit sieben Jahren spielte er, beeinflusst durch Professor Longhair, Klavier und gründete 1952 die Band Flamingos,[1] zu der später Snooks Eaglin stieß. Dave Bartholomew holte ihn als Pianobegleitung insbesondere für die Fats-Domino-Aufnahmen von I Want You to Know (B-Seite von The Big Beat, Dezember 1957) und Young School Girl (August 1958). In dieser Zeit arrangierte er im Januar 1958 auch Lee Allens größten Hit Walkin’ With Mr. Lee.
Seine erste eigene Single entstand im Rahmen eines Talentwettbewerbs am 29. Januar 1958 als Al Tousan unter dem Titel Whirlaway / Happy Times (RCA #47-7192), aufgenommen in Cosimo Matassas berühmten Tonstudios in New Orleans. Beeindruckt durch seine Pianoarbeit ermunterte ihn Matassa zur Aufnahme weiterer Instrumentaltitel, die dann im Februar 1958 als Instrumentalalbum The Wild Sounds of New Orleans zusammengefasst wurden. Hierauf befand sich auch seine Komposition Java, später ein großer Instrumentalhit für Al Hirt (#4 Pop-Charts im Januar 1963).[2] Das gesamte Album mit Unterstützung der Hausband Matassas (Alvin „Red“ Tyler – Baritonsaxophon, Frank Fields – Bass, Justin Adams und Roy Mantrell – Gitarre, Charles „Hungry“ Williams – Schlagzeug) reflektiert den fesselnden, authentischen damaligen Sound aus New Orleans. Trotz mäßiger Umsätze erlangte Toussaint durch das Album nationale Bekanntheit.
Künstlerischer Direktor eines Plattenlabels
Ab 1960 ging er zu dem gerade gegründeten Plattenlabel Minit Records, für das er produzierte, arrangierte, komponierte und auf dessen Plattenaufnahmen er oft auch als Begleitpianist zu hören ist. Zusammen mit Allen Orange brachte er unter dem Label Allen & Allen einige Platten selbst heraus. Bei Minit Records begann sein eigentlicher kreativer Durchbruch, als er an der Weiterentwicklung des „New Orleans-Sound“ zu einem leichteren, melodiöseren, manchmal etwas wehmütigen Stil, arbeitete. Er produzierte insbesondere im Mai 1960 Ooh Poo Pah Doo für Jessie Hill, schrieb den Millionenseller Mother-In-Law für Ernie K-Doe (April 1961) oder Benny Spellmans Fortune Teller / Lipstick Traces (On A Cigarette) (Juni 1962) unter seinem zweiten Pseudonym Naomi Neville.[3] Für das Schwesterlabel Instant Records produzierte er Lee Dorseys Ya Ya (August 1961) oder Chris Kenners oft gecoverten Tanzsong Land of 1000 Dances (Juli 1963). Toussaints Einberufung zur Armee hinterließ bei Minit Records eine kreative Lücke, die durch seinen Ersatz Eddie Bo nicht geschlossen werden konnte. Das Plattenlabel verlor seine Marktstellung fast völlig und wurde an Imperial Records verkauft.
Neubeginn
Als er im Januar 1963 zur Armee eingezogen wurde, litt hierunter seine Kreativität enorm. Während einiger Zusammentreffen mit seiner Hintergrundband Stokes, zu der auch der Schlagzeuger Billy Fayard gehörte, entstand in dienstfreier Zeit unter dem Pseudonym Naomi Neville Whipped Cream, von Herb Alpert im Februar 1965 gecovert und zu einem mittleren Hit gebracht. Nach seiner Entlassung aus der Armee im Jahre 1965 arbeitete er mit Marshall Sehorn zusammen, mit dem er eine Produktionsgesellschaft und das Plattenlabel Sansu Enterprises gründete. Hier wurde – neben Betty Harris, Earl King, Chris Kenner und Lou Johnson – auch Lee Dorsey unter Vertrag genommen. Kompositionen für Dorsey wie Ride Your Pony, das oft gecoverte Get Out of My Life Woman oder das unsterbliche Working in the Coal Mine stammten alle aus der Feder Toussaints. Ab 1966 engagierte Sansu als Hausband die Meters, die ab 1969 selbst den Status als Interpreten erhielten und von Toussaint produziert wurden. 1971 nahm Toussaint nach langer Zeit sein erstes Soloalbum auf, das schlicht mit Toussaint betitelt wurde. Mit Sehorn entstand dann in New Orleans 1972 das später berühmte Sea-Saint-Tonstudio in New Orleans.
Allen Toussaint – Whirlaway
Allen & Allen – Heavenly Baby
Lee Dorsey – Yes We Can
LaBelle – Lady Marmalade
Dr. John – Right Place Wrong Time
Toussaint produzierte die Titel Right Place Wrong Time für Dr. John (Album In The Right Place, März 1973) und den Nr. Eins-Funk-Hit Lady Marmalade für LaBelle (Dezember 1974). Die Pointer Sisters übernahmen im August 1973 Yes We Can Can als ihre erste Single (Original von Lee Dorsey vom August 1970), aus Toussaints Soloalbum Southern Nights (Mai 1975) koppelte Glen Campbell den Titelsong aus und machte daraus im Februar 1977 einen millionenfach umgesetzten Country-Hit, Robert Palmer betitelte sein von den Meters begleitetes Album Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley im Juni 1975 nach dem 1970 von Toussaint komponierten Song (Original wiederum von Lee Dorseys Album Yes We Can, 1970).
Der Diskograf Tom Lord listet Toussaint im Bereich des Jazz und Rhythm and Blues von 1957 bis 2012 mit insgesamt 50 Aufnahmesessions, u. a. mit Alvin Tyler, Ramsey Lewis, Kip Hanrahan (Conjure: Music for the Texts Of Ishmael Reed), Madeleine Peyroux und der Preservation Hall Jazz Band .[4] 2009 erschien bei Nonesuch das Jazzalbum The Bright Mississippi, u. a. mit Nicholas Payton, Don Byron, Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau und Marc Ribot.
Allen Toussaint starb am 9. November 2015 im Alter von 77 Jahren auf einer Tournee in Europa.
Allen Toussaint (/ˈtuːsɑːnt/; January 14, 1938 – November 10, 2015) was an American musician, songwriter, arranger and record producer, who was an influential figure in New Orleans R&B from the 1950s to the end of the century, described as "one of popular music’s great backroom figures."[1] Many other musicians recorded Toussaint's compositions, including "Java", "Mother-in-Law", "I Like It Like That", "Fortune Teller", "Ride Your Pony", "Get Out of My Life, Woman", "Working in the Coal Mine", "Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky", "Here Come the Girls", "Yes We Can Can", "Play Something Sweet", and "Southern Nights". As a producer, his credits included Dr John’s hit "Right Place, Wrong Time" and Labelle's "Lady Marmalade".
Biography
Early life and career
One of three children, Toussaint was born in 1938 in New Orleans and grew up in a shotgun house in the Gert Town neighborhood, where his mother, Naomi Neville (whose name he later adopted pseudonymously for some of his works), welcomed and fed all manner of musicians as they practiced and recorded with her son. His father, Clarence, worked on the railway and played trumpet.[1] Allen Toussaint learned piano as a child, and took informal music lessons from an elderly neighbor, Ernest Pinn.[2] In his teens he played in a band, the Flamingos, with guitarist Snooks Eaglin,[3] before dropping out of school. A significant early influence on Toussaint was the syncopated "second-line" piano style of Professor Longhair.[4]
After a lucky break at age 17, in which he stood in for Huey "Piano" Smith at a performance with Earl King's band in Prichard, Alabama,[5] Toussaint was introduced to a group of local musicians led by Dave Bartholomew who performed regularly at a night club, the Dew Drop Inn, on Lasalle Street in Uptown.[6] His first recording was in 1957 as a stand-in for Fats Domino on Domino's record, "I Want You to Know", on which Toussaint played piano and Domino overdubbed his vocals.[2] His first success as a producer also came in 1957 with Lee Allen's "Walking With Mr. Lee."[1] He began performing regularly in Bartholomew's band, and recorded with Fats Domino, Smiley Lewis, Lee Allen and other leading New Orleans performers.[3]
After being spotted as a sideman by A&R man Danny Kessler, he initially recorded for RCA Records as Al Tousan. In early 1958 he recorded an album of instrumentals, The Wild Sound of New Orleans, with a band including Alvin "Red" Tyler (baritone sax), either Nat Perrilliat or Lee Allen (tenor sax), either Justin Adams or Roy Montrell (guitar), Frank Fields (bass), and Charles "Hungry" Williams (drums).[7] The recordings included Toussaint and Tyler's composition "Java", which first charted for Floyd Cramer in 1962 and became a #4 pop hit for Al Hirt (also on RCA) in 1964.[8]
Success in the 1960s
In 1960, Joe Banashak of Minit Records, and later Instant Records, hired Toussaint as A&R man and record producer.[2][9] He also did freelance work for other labels, such as Fury. Toussaint played piano, wrote, arranged and produced a string of hits in the early and mid 1960s for New Orleans R&B artists such as Ernie K-Doe, Chris Kenner, Irma Thomas, Art and Aaron Neville, The Showmen, and Lee Dorsey, whose first hit "Ya Ya" he produced in 1961.[1][3]
The early to mid-1960s are regarded as Toussaint's most creatively successful period.[2] Notable examples of his work are Jessie Hill's "Ooh Poo Pah Doo" – written by Hill and arranged and produced by Toussaint – Ernie K-Doe's "Mother-in-Law"; and Chris Kenner's "I Like It Like That".[9][10][11] A two-sided 1962 hit by Benny Spellman comprised "Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette)", later covered by The O'Jays, Ringo Starr, and Alex Chilton; and the simple but effective "Fortune Teller", which was covered by many 1960s rock groups including The Rolling Stones, The Nashville Teens, The Who, The Hollies, The Throb, and ex-Searchers founder member Tony Jackson.[9][12][13] "Ruler of My Heart", first recorded by Irma Thomas, was subsequently recorded by Otis Redding under the title "Pain in My Heart", and by The Rolling Stones on their second album.[14] In 1964, "A Certain Girl" (originally by Ernie K-Doe) was the B-side of the first single release by The Yardbirds; the song was released again in 1980 by Warren Zevon, then in 2007 by Mary Weiss, former lead singer of the Shangri-Las, as "A Certain Guy".[15]
Toussaint credited about twenty songs to his parents, Clarence and Naomi, sometimes using the pseudonym, "Naomi Neville".[16][17] These include Benny Spellman's 1961 original version of "Fortune Teller" and The Artwoods' 1966 version of "Work, Work, Work". In 2007, Alison Krauss and Robert Plant covered "Fortune Teller" on their album Raising Sand. Toussaint also wrote songs credited as Allen Orange.[18]
Sansu: soul and early New Orleans funk
Toussaint was drafted into the US Army in 1963, but continued to record when on leave.[1] After his discharge in 1965, he joined forces with Marshall Sehorn.[19] They started Sansu Enterprises which hosted their own record label, Sansu, variously known as Tou-Sea, Deesu, or Kansu, and recorded with Lee Dorsey, Chris Kenner, Betty Harris, and others. Dorsey had hits with several of Toussaint's songs, including "Ride Your Pony" (1965), "Working in the Coal Mine" (1966), and "Holy Cow" (1966).[3][19] The core players who essentially functioned as the rhythm section used on so many of the Sansu era recordings from the mid to late 1960s, Art Neville & The Sounds, consisted of Art Neville on keyboards, Leo Nocentelli on guitar, George Porter on bass, and Zigaboo Modeliste on drums, and would later become known as the Meters.[20] Their backing can be heard in songs such as in Dorsey's "Ride Your Pony" and "Working on a Coal Mine," sometimes augmented by horns usually arranged by Toussaint.[21] The Toussaint-produced records of these years backed by the members of the Meters, with their increasing use of syncopation and electric instrumentation, built on the influences of Professor Longhair and others before them, yet updated these strands, effectively paving the way for the development of a modern New Orleans funk sound. [20][22]
Late 1970s to 1990s
Toussaint continued to produce the Meters when they began releasing records under their own name starting in 1969 and as part of a process which had begun at Sansu and would reach fruition in the 1970s, as he evolved to a funkier sound, writing and producing for a host of acts, such as Dr. John, backed by the Meters, on the 1973 album In the Right Place, which spawned a hit with "Right Place, Wrong Time," as well as an album by The Wild Tchoupitoulas, a New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians tribe led by "Big Chief Jolly" (George Landry) backed by the Meters and several of his nephews, including Art and Cyril Neville of the Meters, as well as their two brothers Charles and Aaron, who would become known as the Neville Brothers.[23][24][25] One of his compositions, "Here Come the Girls," recorded by Ernie K-Doe in 1970, formed the basis of the Sugababes' 2008 hit "Girls".[26]
He also began to work with non-New Orleans artists such as B. J. Thomas, Robert Palmer, Willy DeVille, Sandy Denny, Elkie Brooks, Solomon Burke, Scottish soul singer Frankie Miller (High Life), and southern rocker Mylon LeFevre.[27][28] He arranged horn music for The Band's albums Cahoots (1971) and Rock of Ages (1972) and for The Last Waltz film (1978), in conjunction with arranging horn parts for their concert repertoire.[29][30][31] Boz Scaggs recorded Toussaint's "What Do You Want the Girl to Do?" on his 1976 album Silk Degrees, which reached #2 on the U.S. pop albums chart. The song was also recorded by Bonnie Raitt for her 1975 album Home Plate, and later by Geoff Muldaur (1976), Lowell George (1979), Vince Gill (1993), and Elvis Costello (2005).[32] In 1976 he also collaborated with John Mayall on the album Notice to Appear.[33]
In 1973 Toussaint and Sehorn created the Sea-Saint recording studio in the Gentilly section of eastern New Orleans.[34][35] Toussaint also began recording under his own name, contributing vocals as well as piano. His solo career peaked in the mid-1970s with the albums From a Whisper to a Scream and Southern Nights.[36][37] It was during this time that he teamed with Labelle, and produced their highly acclaimed 1975 album Nightbirds, which spawned the number one hit, "Lady Marmalade". The same year, Toussaint collaborated with Paul McCartney and Wings for their hit album Venus and Mars and played on the song "Rock Show". Two years later, Glen Campbell covered Toussaint's "Southern Nights" and carried the song to number one on the Pop, Country and Adult-Contemporary charts.[38]
In 1987, he was the musical director for an off Broadway show, Staggerlee, which ran for 150 performances.[2][39] Along with many of his contemporaries, Toussaint found that interest in his compositions was rekindled when his work began to be sampled by hip hop artists in the 1980s and 1990s.[40][41]
2000s
Most of Toussaint's possessions including his home and recording studio, Sea Saint, were lost during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.[42][43] He initially sought shelter at the Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel on Canal Street.[42] Following the hurricane, whose aftermath left most of the city flooded, he left New Orleans for Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and for several years settled in New York City.[42][43] His first television appearance after the hurricane was on the September 7, 2005, episode of the Late Show with David Letterman, sitting in with Paul Shaffer and his CBS Orchestra. Toussaint performed regularly at Joe's Pub in New York City through 2009.[44] He eventually returned to New Orleans and lived there for the remainder of his life.[45]
The River in Reverse, Toussaint's collaborative album with Elvis Costello, was released on May 29, 2006, in the UK on the Verve label by Universal Classics and Jazz UCJ.[46] It was recorded in Hollywood and, more notably, at the Piety Street Studio in the Bywater section Toussaint's native New Orleans as the first major studio session to take place after Hurricane Katrina.[47] In 2007, Toussaint performed a duet with Paul McCartney of a song by fellow New Orleans musician and resident Fats Domino, "I Want to Walk You Home", as their contribution to Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino (Vanguard).[48]
In 2008, Toussaint's song "Sweet Touch of Love" was used in a deodorant commercial for the Axe (Lynx) brand. The commercial won a Gold Lion at the 2008 Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. In February 2008, Toussaint appeared on Le Show, the Harry Shearer show broadcast on KCRW. He appeared in London in August 2008, where he performed a gig at the Roundhouse.[49] In October 2008 he performed at Festival New Orleans at The O2 alongside acts such as Dr. John and Buckwheat Zydeco.[50] Sponsored by Quint Davis of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Philip Anschutz, the event was intended to promote New Orleans music and culture and to revive the once-lucrative tourist trade that had been almost completely lost following the flooding that came with Hurricane Katrina.[50] After his second performance at the festival, Toussaint appeared alongside then-Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, Mitch Landrieu.[51]
Toussaint performed instrumentals from his then-recent album, The Bright Mississippi, as well as many songs from his back catalog for a taping of the PBS series Austin City Limits, which aired on January 9, 2015, during the show's 35th anniversary season.[52][53] In December 2009, he was featured on Elvis Costello's Spectacle program on the Sundance Channel,[54] singing "A Certain Girl".[55] Toussaint appeared on Eric Clapton's 2010 album, Clapton, in two Fats Waller covers, "My Very Good Friend the Milkman" and "When Somebody Thinks You're Wonderful".[56]
His late-blooming career as a performer began when he accepted an offer to play a regular Sunday brunch session at an East Village pub. Interviewed in 2014 by The Guardian′s Richard Williams, Toussaint said: "I never thought of myself as a performer.... My comfort zone is behind the scenes." In 2013 he collaborated on a ballet with the choreographer Twyla Tharp.[1] Toussaint was a musical mentor to Swedish-born New Orleans songwriter and performer Theresa Andersson.[57]
Honors
In 1998 Toussaint was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 2009 into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. On May 9, 2011, he was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. In 2013 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama.[58]
Death
Toussaint died in the early hours of November 10, 2015, while in Madrid, Spain, on tour. Following a concert at the Teatro Lara on Calle Corredera Baja de San Pablo, he suffered a heart attack at his hotel and was pronounced dead on his arrival at hospital.[59] He was 77. He had been due to perform in a sell-out concert at the EFG London Jazz Festival at The Barbican on November 15 with his band and Theo Croker. He was also to play with Paul Simon at a benefit concert in New Orleans on 8 December.[4]
Toussaint’s two marriages ended in divorce.[4] He is survived by his two children, son Clarence (better known as Reginald) and daughter Alison, and by several grandchildren. His children had managed his career in recent years.[60][61]
Writing in The New York Times, Ben Sisario quoted Quint Davis, producer of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival: "In the pantheon of New Orleans music people, from Jelly Roll Morton to Mahalia Jackson to Fats—that’s the place where Allen Toussaint is in". Paul Simon said: "We were friends and colleagues for almost 40 years.... We played together at the New Orleans jazz festival. We played the benefits for Katrina relief. We were about to perform together on December 8. I was just beginning to think about it; now I’ll have to think about his memorial. I am so sad."[61]
The Daily Telegraph described Toussaint as "a master of New Orleans soul and R&B, and one of America’s most successful songwriters and producers", adding that "self-effacing Toussaint played a crucial role in countless classic songs popularised by other artists". He had written so many songs, over more than five decades, that he admitted to forgetting quite a few.
Biography
Early life and career
One of three children, Toussaint was born in 1938 in New Orleans and grew up in a shotgun house in the Gert Town neighborhood, where his mother, Naomi Neville (whose name he later adopted pseudonymously for some of his works), welcomed and fed all manner of musicians as they practiced and recorded with her son. His father, Clarence, worked on the railway and played trumpet.[1] Allen Toussaint learned piano as a child, and took informal music lessons from an elderly neighbor, Ernest Pinn.[2] In his teens he played in a band, the Flamingos, with guitarist Snooks Eaglin,[3] before dropping out of school. A significant early influence on Toussaint was the syncopated "second-line" piano style of Professor Longhair.[4]
After a lucky break at age 17, in which he stood in for Huey "Piano" Smith at a performance with Earl King's band in Prichard, Alabama,[5] Toussaint was introduced to a group of local musicians led by Dave Bartholomew who performed regularly at a night club, the Dew Drop Inn, on Lasalle Street in Uptown.[6] His first recording was in 1957 as a stand-in for Fats Domino on Domino's record, "I Want You to Know", on which Toussaint played piano and Domino overdubbed his vocals.[2] His first success as a producer also came in 1957 with Lee Allen's "Walking With Mr. Lee."[1] He began performing regularly in Bartholomew's band, and recorded with Fats Domino, Smiley Lewis, Lee Allen and other leading New Orleans performers.[3]
After being spotted as a sideman by A&R man Danny Kessler, he initially recorded for RCA Records as Al Tousan. In early 1958 he recorded an album of instrumentals, The Wild Sound of New Orleans, with a band including Alvin "Red" Tyler (baritone sax), either Nat Perrilliat or Lee Allen (tenor sax), either Justin Adams or Roy Montrell (guitar), Frank Fields (bass), and Charles "Hungry" Williams (drums).[7] The recordings included Toussaint and Tyler's composition "Java", which first charted for Floyd Cramer in 1962 and became a #4 pop hit for Al Hirt (also on RCA) in 1964.[8]
Success in the 1960s
In 1960, Joe Banashak of Minit Records, and later Instant Records, hired Toussaint as A&R man and record producer.[2][9] He also did freelance work for other labels, such as Fury. Toussaint played piano, wrote, arranged and produced a string of hits in the early and mid 1960s for New Orleans R&B artists such as Ernie K-Doe, Chris Kenner, Irma Thomas, Art and Aaron Neville, The Showmen, and Lee Dorsey, whose first hit "Ya Ya" he produced in 1961.[1][3]
The early to mid-1960s are regarded as Toussaint's most creatively successful period.[2] Notable examples of his work are Jessie Hill's "Ooh Poo Pah Doo" – written by Hill and arranged and produced by Toussaint – Ernie K-Doe's "Mother-in-Law"; and Chris Kenner's "I Like It Like That".[9][10][11] A two-sided 1962 hit by Benny Spellman comprised "Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette)", later covered by The O'Jays, Ringo Starr, and Alex Chilton; and the simple but effective "Fortune Teller", which was covered by many 1960s rock groups including The Rolling Stones, The Nashville Teens, The Who, The Hollies, The Throb, and ex-Searchers founder member Tony Jackson.[9][12][13] "Ruler of My Heart", first recorded by Irma Thomas, was subsequently recorded by Otis Redding under the title "Pain in My Heart", and by The Rolling Stones on their second album.[14] In 1964, "A Certain Girl" (originally by Ernie K-Doe) was the B-side of the first single release by The Yardbirds; the song was released again in 1980 by Warren Zevon, then in 2007 by Mary Weiss, former lead singer of the Shangri-Las, as "A Certain Guy".[15]
Toussaint credited about twenty songs to his parents, Clarence and Naomi, sometimes using the pseudonym, "Naomi Neville".[16][17] These include Benny Spellman's 1961 original version of "Fortune Teller" and The Artwoods' 1966 version of "Work, Work, Work". In 2007, Alison Krauss and Robert Plant covered "Fortune Teller" on their album Raising Sand. Toussaint also wrote songs credited as Allen Orange.[18]
Sansu: soul and early New Orleans funk
Toussaint was drafted into the US Army in 1963, but continued to record when on leave.[1] After his discharge in 1965, he joined forces with Marshall Sehorn.[19] They started Sansu Enterprises which hosted their own record label, Sansu, variously known as Tou-Sea, Deesu, or Kansu, and recorded with Lee Dorsey, Chris Kenner, Betty Harris, and others. Dorsey had hits with several of Toussaint's songs, including "Ride Your Pony" (1965), "Working in the Coal Mine" (1966), and "Holy Cow" (1966).[3][19] The core players who essentially functioned as the rhythm section used on so many of the Sansu era recordings from the mid to late 1960s, Art Neville & The Sounds, consisted of Art Neville on keyboards, Leo Nocentelli on guitar, George Porter on bass, and Zigaboo Modeliste on drums, and would later become known as the Meters.[20] Their backing can be heard in songs such as in Dorsey's "Ride Your Pony" and "Working on a Coal Mine," sometimes augmented by horns usually arranged by Toussaint.[21] The Toussaint-produced records of these years backed by the members of the Meters, with their increasing use of syncopation and electric instrumentation, built on the influences of Professor Longhair and others before them, yet updated these strands, effectively paving the way for the development of a modern New Orleans funk sound. [20][22]
Late 1970s to 1990s
Toussaint continued to produce the Meters when they began releasing records under their own name starting in 1969 and as part of a process which had begun at Sansu and would reach fruition in the 1970s, as he evolved to a funkier sound, writing and producing for a host of acts, such as Dr. John, backed by the Meters, on the 1973 album In the Right Place, which spawned a hit with "Right Place, Wrong Time," as well as an album by The Wild Tchoupitoulas, a New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians tribe led by "Big Chief Jolly" (George Landry) backed by the Meters and several of his nephews, including Art and Cyril Neville of the Meters, as well as their two brothers Charles and Aaron, who would become known as the Neville Brothers.[23][24][25] One of his compositions, "Here Come the Girls," recorded by Ernie K-Doe in 1970, formed the basis of the Sugababes' 2008 hit "Girls".[26]
He also began to work with non-New Orleans artists such as B. J. Thomas, Robert Palmer, Willy DeVille, Sandy Denny, Elkie Brooks, Solomon Burke, Scottish soul singer Frankie Miller (High Life), and southern rocker Mylon LeFevre.[27][28] He arranged horn music for The Band's albums Cahoots (1971) and Rock of Ages (1972) and for The Last Waltz film (1978), in conjunction with arranging horn parts for their concert repertoire.[29][30][31] Boz Scaggs recorded Toussaint's "What Do You Want the Girl to Do?" on his 1976 album Silk Degrees, which reached #2 on the U.S. pop albums chart. The song was also recorded by Bonnie Raitt for her 1975 album Home Plate, and later by Geoff Muldaur (1976), Lowell George (1979), Vince Gill (1993), and Elvis Costello (2005).[32] In 1976 he also collaborated with John Mayall on the album Notice to Appear.[33]
In 1973 Toussaint and Sehorn created the Sea-Saint recording studio in the Gentilly section of eastern New Orleans.[34][35] Toussaint also began recording under his own name, contributing vocals as well as piano. His solo career peaked in the mid-1970s with the albums From a Whisper to a Scream and Southern Nights.[36][37] It was during this time that he teamed with Labelle, and produced their highly acclaimed 1975 album Nightbirds, which spawned the number one hit, "Lady Marmalade". The same year, Toussaint collaborated with Paul McCartney and Wings for their hit album Venus and Mars and played on the song "Rock Show". Two years later, Glen Campbell covered Toussaint's "Southern Nights" and carried the song to number one on the Pop, Country and Adult-Contemporary charts.[38]
In 1987, he was the musical director for an off Broadway show, Staggerlee, which ran for 150 performances.[2][39] Along with many of his contemporaries, Toussaint found that interest in his compositions was rekindled when his work began to be sampled by hip hop artists in the 1980s and 1990s.[40][41]
2000s
Most of Toussaint's possessions including his home and recording studio, Sea Saint, were lost during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.[42][43] He initially sought shelter at the Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel on Canal Street.[42] Following the hurricane, whose aftermath left most of the city flooded, he left New Orleans for Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and for several years settled in New York City.[42][43] His first television appearance after the hurricane was on the September 7, 2005, episode of the Late Show with David Letterman, sitting in with Paul Shaffer and his CBS Orchestra. Toussaint performed regularly at Joe's Pub in New York City through 2009.[44] He eventually returned to New Orleans and lived there for the remainder of his life.[45]
The River in Reverse, Toussaint's collaborative album with Elvis Costello, was released on May 29, 2006, in the UK on the Verve label by Universal Classics and Jazz UCJ.[46] It was recorded in Hollywood and, more notably, at the Piety Street Studio in the Bywater section Toussaint's native New Orleans as the first major studio session to take place after Hurricane Katrina.[47] In 2007, Toussaint performed a duet with Paul McCartney of a song by fellow New Orleans musician and resident Fats Domino, "I Want to Walk You Home", as their contribution to Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino (Vanguard).[48]
In 2008, Toussaint's song "Sweet Touch of Love" was used in a deodorant commercial for the Axe (Lynx) brand. The commercial won a Gold Lion at the 2008 Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. In February 2008, Toussaint appeared on Le Show, the Harry Shearer show broadcast on KCRW. He appeared in London in August 2008, where he performed a gig at the Roundhouse.[49] In October 2008 he performed at Festival New Orleans at The O2 alongside acts such as Dr. John and Buckwheat Zydeco.[50] Sponsored by Quint Davis of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Philip Anschutz, the event was intended to promote New Orleans music and culture and to revive the once-lucrative tourist trade that had been almost completely lost following the flooding that came with Hurricane Katrina.[50] After his second performance at the festival, Toussaint appeared alongside then-Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, Mitch Landrieu.[51]
Toussaint performed instrumentals from his then-recent album, The Bright Mississippi, as well as many songs from his back catalog for a taping of the PBS series Austin City Limits, which aired on January 9, 2015, during the show's 35th anniversary season.[52][53] In December 2009, he was featured on Elvis Costello's Spectacle program on the Sundance Channel,[54] singing "A Certain Girl".[55] Toussaint appeared on Eric Clapton's 2010 album, Clapton, in two Fats Waller covers, "My Very Good Friend the Milkman" and "When Somebody Thinks You're Wonderful".[56]
His late-blooming career as a performer began when he accepted an offer to play a regular Sunday brunch session at an East Village pub. Interviewed in 2014 by The Guardian′s Richard Williams, Toussaint said: "I never thought of myself as a performer.... My comfort zone is behind the scenes." In 2013 he collaborated on a ballet with the choreographer Twyla Tharp.[1] Toussaint was a musical mentor to Swedish-born New Orleans songwriter and performer Theresa Andersson.[57]
Honors
In 1998 Toussaint was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 2009 into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. On May 9, 2011, he was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. In 2013 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama.[58]
Death
Toussaint died in the early hours of November 10, 2015, while in Madrid, Spain, on tour. Following a concert at the Teatro Lara on Calle Corredera Baja de San Pablo, he suffered a heart attack at his hotel and was pronounced dead on his arrival at hospital.[59] He was 77. He had been due to perform in a sell-out concert at the EFG London Jazz Festival at The Barbican on November 15 with his band and Theo Croker. He was also to play with Paul Simon at a benefit concert in New Orleans on 8 December.[4]
Toussaint’s two marriages ended in divorce.[4] He is survived by his two children, son Clarence (better known as Reginald) and daughter Alison, and by several grandchildren. His children had managed his career in recent years.[60][61]
Writing in The New York Times, Ben Sisario quoted Quint Davis, producer of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival: "In the pantheon of New Orleans music people, from Jelly Roll Morton to Mahalia Jackson to Fats—that’s the place where Allen Toussaint is in". Paul Simon said: "We were friends and colleagues for almost 40 years.... We played together at the New Orleans jazz festival. We played the benefits for Katrina relief. We were about to perform together on December 8. I was just beginning to think about it; now I’ll have to think about his memorial. I am so sad."[61]
The Daily Telegraph described Toussaint as "a master of New Orleans soul and R&B, and one of America’s most successful songwriters and producers", adding that "self-effacing Toussaint played a crucial role in countless classic songs popularised by other artists". He had written so many songs, over more than five decades, that he admitted to forgetting quite a few.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Toussaint
Maxwell Davis *14.01.1916
Maxwell Davis (* 14. Januar 1916 in Independence, Kansas; † 18. September 1970 in Los Angeles, Kalifornien) war ein amerikanischer Rhythm-and-Blues- und Jazz-Saxophonist, Arrangeur und Produzent.
1937 zog Maxwell Davis nach Los Angeles und spielte Saxophon im Fletcher Henderson Orchestra. Nachdem er einige Jahre im Swingumfeld arbeitete, spielte er in den 1940er Jahren mehr in der West-Coast-Rhythm-and-Blues-Szene. Davis war regelmäßiger Sessionmusiker und Arrangeur für unabhängige Plattenlabel wie Aladdin Records, wo er u.a an der Session mit Helen Humes und Lester Young mitwirkte und mit Little Miss Cornshucks arbeitete. Er nahm auch mit Louis Jordan, Lester Young und der Jay McShann Band auf, in der der Bluessänger Jimmy Witherspoon mitwirkte. Nach 1952 spielte er außerdem mit Percy Mayfield, Peppermint Harris, „Gatemouth“ Brown, Betty Hall Jones, T-Bone Walker, Jesse Price, Amos Milburn und anderen.
„Maxwell Davis gilt als der unsung hero der frühen Rhythm and Blues“, bemerkte der Songwriter und Produzent Mike Stoller. Er produzierte die meisten Plattensessions von Aladdin Records, Modern Records, und von vielen unabhängigen Rhythm-and-Blues-Labels der späten 1940er und der frühen 1950er Jahre. Seine letzte Aktivität als Produzent waren 1969 Aufnahmen mit dem Soulsänger Z. Z. Hill.
1937 zog Maxwell Davis nach Los Angeles und spielte Saxophon im Fletcher Henderson Orchestra. Nachdem er einige Jahre im Swingumfeld arbeitete, spielte er in den 1940er Jahren mehr in der West-Coast-Rhythm-and-Blues-Szene. Davis war regelmäßiger Sessionmusiker und Arrangeur für unabhängige Plattenlabel wie Aladdin Records, wo er u.a an der Session mit Helen Humes und Lester Young mitwirkte und mit Little Miss Cornshucks arbeitete. Er nahm auch mit Louis Jordan, Lester Young und der Jay McShann Band auf, in der der Bluessänger Jimmy Witherspoon mitwirkte. Nach 1952 spielte er außerdem mit Percy Mayfield, Peppermint Harris, „Gatemouth“ Brown, Betty Hall Jones, T-Bone Walker, Jesse Price, Amos Milburn und anderen.
„Maxwell Davis gilt als der unsung hero der frühen Rhythm and Blues“, bemerkte der Songwriter und Produzent Mike Stoller. Er produzierte die meisten Plattensessions von Aladdin Records, Modern Records, und von vielen unabhängigen Rhythm-and-Blues-Labels der späten 1940er und der frühen 1950er Jahre. Seine letzte Aktivität als Produzent waren 1969 Aufnahmen mit dem Soulsänger Z. Z. Hill.
Maxwell Davis (January 14, 1916 – September 18, 1970[1]) was an American R&B saxophonist, arranger and record producer.
Biography
Davis was born in Independence, Kansas. In 1937 he moved to Los Angeles, California, playing saxophone in the Fletcher Henderson orchestra. After some years playing swing and jazz, he became more involved in the West Coast R&B scene in the mid-1940s, becoming a regular session player and arranger for the fast-growing independent record labels such as Aladdin. He also recorded with the Jay McShann band, featuring blues shouter Jimmy Witherspoon. By 1952, he had played on numerous R&B hits by Percy Mayfield, Peppermint Harris, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, T-Bone Walker, Amos Milburn, and others.[1]
In 1955 he joined Modern Records as musical director, bringing in most of the artists on Modern and Aladdin, and producing most of their records. Although his success rate started to diminish thereafter, he became regarded as an elder statesman, and "the father of West Coast R&B".
"Maxwell Davis is an unsung hero of early rhythm and blues," noted songwriter/producer Mike Stoller. "He produced, in effect, all of the record sessions for Aladdin records, Modern records, all the local independent rhythm and blues companies in the early 1950s, late 1940s in Los Angeles."[2]
His final recording activity was in 1969, as the producer of the soul singer, Z. Z. Hill. Davis died in Los Angeles, at the age of 54, in September 1970.
Biography
Davis was born in Independence, Kansas. In 1937 he moved to Los Angeles, California, playing saxophone in the Fletcher Henderson orchestra. After some years playing swing and jazz, he became more involved in the West Coast R&B scene in the mid-1940s, becoming a regular session player and arranger for the fast-growing independent record labels such as Aladdin. He also recorded with the Jay McShann band, featuring blues shouter Jimmy Witherspoon. By 1952, he had played on numerous R&B hits by Percy Mayfield, Peppermint Harris, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, T-Bone Walker, Amos Milburn, and others.[1]
In 1955 he joined Modern Records as musical director, bringing in most of the artists on Modern and Aladdin, and producing most of their records. Although his success rate started to diminish thereafter, he became regarded as an elder statesman, and "the father of West Coast R&B".
"Maxwell Davis is an unsung hero of early rhythm and blues," noted songwriter/producer Mike Stoller. "He produced, in effect, all of the record sessions for Aladdin records, Modern records, all the local independent rhythm and blues companies in the early 1950s, late 1940s in Los Angeles."[2]
His final recording activity was in 1969, as the producer of the soul singer, Z. Z. Hill. Davis died in Los Angeles, at the age of 54, in September 1970.
Blue Shuffle [10 inch] - Maxwell Davis with Rhythm Accompaniment
Matthias Baumgardt *14.01.1963
Der Gitarrenvirtuose Matthias Baumgardt versteht es zusammen mit seiner
Band All Colours Heroes wie Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton und weitere
berühmte Größen der 70iger Jahre musikalisch adäquat ins Jahr 2001 zu
interpretieren, womit er zur Gruppe der Frankfurter Formel I Blues- und
Rockmusiker zählt. Mit über 20-jähriger Berufserfahrung und weit mehr
als 1000 Auftritten schreibt die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 1982
über den damals neunzehnjährigen: Matthias Baumgardt dessen
temperamentvolles Spiel nicht nur billiante melodische Einfälle birgt,
sondern zugleich rhythmisch die Spannung zusammenhält. (Konzertkritik
FAZ 1.9.82).Im Februar 1994 schreibt die Frankfurter AZ über die Band All Colours: Beste Coverband Ffm´s mit den abgefahrensten Oldies, den coolsten Ohrwürmern und vor allem, dem bluesigsten Gitarristen der Szene Matthias Baumgardt. Zusammenarbeit mit Musikern wie: z.B. Jürgenrgen Zöller (BAP), Ken Taylor (Peter Maffay), Commander Maze (Xavier Naidoo), Edo Zanki, Badesalz, Strassenjungs und vielen anderen...
The King Baumgardt Blues Band
April King und Matthias Baumgardt sind gemeinsam mit ihrer Band ein Erlebnis, packend,
mitreißend und gut. Die amerikanische Sängerin aus Kentucky gehört zu den besten des
Rhein-Main Gebiets. Matthias Baumgardt kann mit seiner Energie, Leidenschaft und seinen Fertigkeiten jedem sogenannten Gitarrengott das Wasser reichen.
Laut der Frankfurter Rundschau: "Blues wie Sternenstaub"
April King: Vocals
Matthias Baumgardt: Gitarre
Barry McCourt: Bass
Wolf Dobberthin: Keyboard
Mingo Siewert: Drums
Der Gitarrenvirtuose Matthias Baumgardt versteht es zusammen mit seiner Band All Colours Heroes wie Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton und weitere berühmte Größen der 70iger Jahre musikalisch adäquat ins Jahr 2001 zu interpretieren, womit er zur Gruppe der Frankfurter Formel I Blues- und Rockmusiker zählt. Mit über 20-jähriger Berufserfahrung und weit mehr als 1000 Auftritten schreibt die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 1982 über den damals neunzehnjährigen: Matthias Baumgardt dessen temperamentvolles Spiel nicht nur billiante melodische Einfälle birgt, sondern zugleich rhythmisch die Spannung zusammenhält. (Konzertkritik FAZ 1.9.82).
Im Februar 1994 schreibt die Frankfurter AZ über die Band All Colours: Beste Coverband Ffm´s mit den abgefahrensten Oldies, den coolsten Ohrwürmern und vor allem, dem bluesigsten Gitarristen der Szene Matthias Baumgardt. Zusammenarbeit mit Musikern wie: z.B. Jürgenrgen Zöller (BAP), Ken Taylor (Peter Maffay), Commander Maze (Xavier Naidoo), Edo Zanki, Badesalz, Strassenjungs und vielen anderen...
Gimme Shelter Matthias Baumgardt & Juergen Zoeller 8 Fev 2011
Marc Broussard *14.01.1982
Marc Broussard (born January 14, 1982) is an American singer-songwriter. His style is best described as "Bayou Soul," a mix of funk, blues, R&B, rock, and pop, matched with distinct Southern roots. In his career, he has released five studio albums, one live album, three EPs, and has charted twice on Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks.
Early life
Marc Broussard is the son of acclaimed Louisiana Hall of Fame guitarist and former member of The Boogie Kings, Ted Broussard.[1] Marc was raised in Carencro, Louisiana and Lafayette, Louisiana.[2]
Musical career
In 2001 Broussard was part of Y, a Christian band. The short-lived band was based out of New Iberia, Louisiana. Broussard's solo career started with the release of several independent efforts, including 2002's Momentary Setback[2] which spawned the hit "The Wanderer", a song about self-discovery. A re-worked version of the song appears on his first major album Carencro (Island Records). It was released on August 3, 2004. The album's title pays tribute to the musician's hometown of Carencro, Louisiana, where he still resides.[1]
In 2007, he released S.O.S.: Save Our Soul, an album consisting almost entirely of cover songs. The album was his first to reach the top 100 of the Billboard 200 in the U.S., debuting and peaking at #96: this had the effect of "graduating" him from the Top Heatseekers chart, which consists of albums by artists who have never reached the top 100.
Broussard finished recording the Must Be The Water EP on the Rock Boat VII in January 2008. He was no stranger to The Rock Boat, which is an annual cruise and music festival. This was Broussard’s first release with his new label, Atlantic Records, with which he signed a multi-album contract in 2007.
Broussard's music has been featured on shows such as Clash of the Choirs in which "Home" was performed by a Blake Shelton led choir. Singer Kelly Clarkson performed "Home" as part of her live setlist in 2006-07.[3] Most recently, "Must Be the Water" was the theme song for the 2008 NBA All-Star Game. Broussard has been a featured performer on many TV programs including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, A&E Breakfast with the Arts, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, CBS Saturday Early Show, Larry King Live "Lopez Tonight", and CBS’s Saturday Morning’s Second Cup Cafe.
In 2008, he released his third full-length studio album, Keep Coming Back. The song "Hard Knocks" from this album was featured in the last episode of the 2009 season of Hard Knocks on HBO featuring the Cincinnati Bengals.
Broussard's fourth full-length album, Marc Broussard was released on June 14, 2011. An early release called Marc Broussard EP was released on March 22, 2011 and features the new singles "Lucky" and "Only Everything."
In late 2012 he signed a new deal with Vanguard Records,[4] and released a live album Live from Full Sail University on April 9, 2013.[5]
He is set to release his fifth full-length album A Life Worth Living on July 29, 2014. The album cover was unveiled on May 13, 2014,[6] and the set's first single "Hurricane Heart" premiered on May 19, 2014.[7]
Personal life
Broussard married his wife, Sonya, on The Rock Boat VII in January 2008. They have four children. Their oldest son, Gavin, was the inspiration for Marc's song “Gavin’s Song”[8] which was co-written by Dave Barnes. Another son, Gibb,[8] was named after musician Gibb Droll who often toured with Broussard. A daughter, Evangeline Rose, followed,[1] and their youngest is a daughter, Ella Grace.[8]
Philanthropy and public service
Broussard is involved in philanthropic work. He founded the Momentary Setback Fund to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita.[1] He released an album Bootleg to Benefit the Victims of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, with all proceeds going to help rebuild Broussard’s home state, Louisiana. He is also involved in the United Way and Habitat for Humanity.[1] In 2007 Broussard was involved in an Entertain the Troops tour in the Middle East.
Marc Broussard - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2014
T-Bone Burnett *14.01.1948
Joseph Henry „T-Bone“ Burnett (* 14. Januar 1948 in St. Louis) ist ein US-amerikanischer Rock-Sänger, -Gitarrist und -Produzent.
Karriere
Burnett wuchs in Fort Worth (Texas) auf, wo er schon bald mit Blues- und R&B-Musik in Berührung kam. Wenig später eröffnete er sein eigenes Tonstudio und begann, in verschiedenen Blues-Bands der Umgebung aufzutreten. Anfang der 70er Jahre zog er nach Los Angeles, wo er Sessions von Glen Clark und Delbert McClinton produzierte. 1972 veröffentlichte er sein Solo-Debüt The B-52 Band & the Fabulous Skylarks.
Danach tourte Burnett eine Zeit lang mit Delaney & Bonnie, später mit Bob Dylan unter anderem in dessen Rolling Thunder Revue. 1976 gründete er zusammen mit David Mansfield und Steve Soles, Kollegen aus Dylans Begleitgruppe, The Alpha Band, die 1977 und 1978 drei Alben veröffentlichte und sich dann wieder auflöste.
Burnett begann sich nun auf seine Solo-Karriere zu konzentrieren, und 1980 kam sein zweites Solo-Werk Truth Decay auf den Markt. Er wechselte zu Warner Brothers Records, wo er 1982 die EP Trap Door aufnahm. 1983 folgte das Album Proof through the Night, auf dem Pete Townshend, Ry Cooder und Richard Thompson als Gaststars zu hören waren. 1984 kam Behind the Trap Door mit Thompson, Bono und Bob Neuwirth als Gastmusiker auf den Markt.
Danach war Burnett einige Zeit lang nur als Produzent tätig. 1984 arbeitete er mit Los Lobos auf How Will the Wolf Survive? zusammen, 1985 folgte Marshall Crenshaws Downtown. Im gleichen Jahr schloss er sich mit Elvis Costello zum Duo „The Coward Brothers“ zusammen, das die Single The People's Limousine aufnahm. 1986 folgten die Produktionen von Costellos Blood & Chocolate und King of America, Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams von den BoDeans und dem selbstbenannten Album von Peter Case, sowie einige Auftritte als Gastmusiker, darunter auf Bob Dylans Knocked Out Loaded. Außerdem veröffentlichte er eine weitere Solo-LP, die schlicht T-Bone Burnett hieß.
1987 begann eine lange andauernde Zusammenarbeit mit der Sängerin Sam Phillips, aus der zunächst die von Burnett produzierte LP The Turning hervorging. 1987 folgte The Indescribable Wow und 1991 Cruel Inventions. Noch vor Veröffentlichung des Albums heirateten Phillips und Burnett. Burnett produzierte auch alle ihrer späteren Werke. 1988 hatte er zusätzlich zu den Produktionen ein weiteres Solo-Album in Form von The Talking Animals auf dem Markt gebracht, 1992 folgte Criminal under My Own Hat.
Die Coen-Brüder engagierten ihn als Produzenten des Soundtracks zum Film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, der im Jahr 2000 in die Kinos kam. Der Soundtrack, eine Hommage an die musikalischen Traditionen des ländlichen Amerika, wurde mit drei Grammys ausgezeichnet. Für Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) engagierten die Brüder Burnett erneut.
2005 war er für die Filmmusik zur Johnny-Cash-Biographie Walk the Line von Regisseur James Mangold verantwortlich. Nach langer Pause als Solokünstler meldete sich T-Bone Burnett 2006 mit einem neuen Album zurück. Er veröffentlichte sein erstes Solo-Werk seit 14 Jahren mit The True False Identity. Zeitgleich erschien mit der Doppel-CD Twenty-Twenty auch ein Best-of-Album. 2007 produzierte Burnett das Album Raising Sand von Robert Plant und Alison Krauss.
Im Mai 2008 erschien mit Tooth of Crime erneut ein Solo-Album Burnetts. Hierbei handelt es sich um eine Zusammenarbeit zwischen dem Theaterautor Sam Shepard und Burnett, die 1996 mit der Arbeit an dem gleichnamigen Theaterstück in New York begann.
Weitere Kollaborationen
Weitere Interpreten, mit denen Burnett zusammenarbeitete, sind unter anderem Tony Bennett, Bruce Cockburn, Counting Crows, Jakob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Leo Kottke, Kris Kristofferson, k.d. lang, Diana Krall, John Mellencamp, Natalie Merchant, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Roy Orbison, Punch Brothers, Spinal Tap, The Wallflowers, The Who, Gillian Welch, Victoria Williams, Warren Zevon und Elton John.
Auszeichnungen
Burnett wurde bisher zweimal für den Oscar nominiert – 2004 gemeinsam mit Elvis Costello für den Song Scarlet Tide aus Unterwegs nach Cold Mountain und 2010 gemeinsam mit Ryan Bingham für The Weary Kind aus Crazy Heart, das ihm einen Golden Globe Award und dann den Oscar einbrachte. Außerdem ist er als Produzent mehrfach mit dem Grammy ausgezeichnet worden.
Joseph Henry "T Bone" Burnett (born January 14, 1948) is an American musician, songwriter, and soundtrack and record producer. He was a touring guitarist in Bob Dylan's band on the Rolling Thunder Revue. After the tour ended, Burnett and two other members of the backing band formed The Alpha Band, followed by his first solo album in 1980.
Burnett has produced artists such as Autolux, Roy Orbison, Lisa Marie Presley, John Mellencamp, Los Lobos, Counting Crows, Elton John and Leon Russell, BoDeans, Elvis Costello, Diana Krall, Natalie Merchant and The Wallflowers as well as Tony Bennett and k.d. lang on the A Wonderful World album. Burnett won Grammy Awards for the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack and for his work with Alison Krauss and Robert Plant. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his songwriting contribution to the film Cold Mountain, and won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart. He founded the record label DMZ, an imprint of Columbia, and was involved with Mark Heard and Tonio K in the short-lived What? Records. He oversaw the music for the films Walk the Line, The Big Lebowski, and Inside Llewyn Davis.
Early life and musical career
Burnett was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1948, and raised in Fort Worth, Texas.[1] He attended R. L. Paschal High School, and is featured in the school's Hall of Honor.[2] He played rhythm guitar in a band called The Shadows. His first significant contribution to the music field was as the manic drummer for the Legendary Stardust Cowboy's novelty hit, "Paralyzed."[3]
T Bone first appeared on The Unwritten Works of Geoffrey, Etc. as part of the pseudonymous Whistler, Chaucer, Detroit and Greenhill, released in 1968 on Uni Records and on which he also produced and wrote 4 of the 11 tracks.[4] Also, in 1968, he produced 6 songs for a group of friends, called at the time, "The Case Hardy Boys". Later this band would move to Los Angeles and become known first as "The Fare", and later as "El Roacho", and would have songs produced by T Bone Burnett and Daniel Moore (who sang on T Bone's most recent album), as well as Steve Katz. In 1972, he moved to Los Angeles and recorded his second album, The B-52 Band and the Fabulous Skylarks.[1] In 1975 and 1976, he toured with Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue.[1]
When the Revue ended, Burnett and two other members of Dylan's band, David Mansfield and Steven Soles, formed The Alpha Band,[1] which released three albums. The Alpha Band and Spark in the Dark were both released in 1977, while The Statue Makers of Hollywood was released in 1978.
T Bone and singer-songwriter Sam Phillips were married in 1989 and divorced in 2004. He produced many of her albums, including Martinis and Bikinis and Cruel Inventions. He is currently married to writer-producer Callie Khouri.[5]
Solo career
In 1980, Burnett released his first post-Alpha Band solo album, Truth Decay, produced by Reggie Fisher, on the Takoma Records label. Truth Decay was a roots rock album described by the Rolling Stone Record Guide as "mystic Christian blues". In 1982, his Trap Door EP, (also produced by Reggie Fisher) and released on the Warner Brothers label, yielded the FM radio hit "I Wish You Could Have Seen Her Dance". Burnett toured after the release of Trap Door, opening several dates for The Who, leading a band that featured Mick Ronson on guitar. His 1983 album Proof Through the Night, whose song "When the Night Falls" got some FM airplay, and his 1987 album The Talking Animals were more in the vein of 1980s new wave music, while his self-titled 1986 album was an album of acoustic country music. His 1992 album The Criminal Under My Own Hat, tended toward adult album alternative music. All were critically acclaimed but not big sellers commercially.[citation needed]
Proof Through the Night was reissued by Rhino Records' Handmade Music in a limited-edition of 5,000 on May 29, 2007, in an expanded version. The double CD also included the EPs Trap Door and Behind the Trap Door.[6] In 2006, he released two albums. The True False Identity was his first album of new songs since 1992, and Twenty Twenty – The Essential T Bone Burnett was a 40-song career retrospective.
Production and other professional activities
See also: List of albums produced by T-Bone Burnett
Burnett began producing albums for artists such as Counting Crows' August and Everything After; Los Lobos' How Will the Wolf Survive?; Elvis Costello's King of America and Spike; the Wallflowers' Bringing Down the Horse; Marshall Crenshaw's Downtown; Spinal Tap's Break Like The Wind; Gillian Welch's Revival and Hell Among the Yearlings; David Poe's self-titled debut; the Roy Orbison tribute A Black & White Night Live; two albums for Bruce Cockburn; and nearly everything released by his former wife, Sam Phillips, who has also performed under the name Leslie Phillips.
In 1985, Burnett collaborated with Elvis Costello on a single titled "The People's Limousine," using the moniker "The Coward Brothers." In 1987, he produced Roy Orbison's two-record album, In Dreams: The Greatest Hits and two songs of Mystery Girl. In 1997, he created new songs for the Sam Shepard play, The Tooth of Crime: Second Dance, which premiered in New York City, during the same year in an off-Broadway production that featured Vincent D'Onofrio and Kirk Acevedo. A CD of these songs, Tooth of Crime, was released in May 2008, featuring guitarist Marc Ribot and backing vocals by Sam Phillips and singer/songwriter David Poe, whose self-titled debut Burnett also produced that year. According to Burnett, he was inspired by the music of Skip James, while composing the songs for the updated version of Shepard's play.[7]
In April 2006, he announced that his first concert tour in nearly two decades would begin on May 16 in Chicago at The Vic Theater. Around the same time, jazz singer Cassandra Wilson released an album of blues songs, Thunderbird (2006), which was produced by Burnett. He also wrote one of the album's songs and co-wrote another with Ethan Coen. He produced music for the remake of the film All the King's Men. In 2006, Burnett produced Brandi Carlile's The Story album, the title song of which became a minor hit and was featured on a special broadcast of ABC-TV's Grey's Anatomy. Carlile's guitarist and bassist, twins Tim and Phil Hanseroth, respectively, used instruments from Burnett's private collection during the unique "live" recordings in Vancouver, British Columbia. In early 2007, Burnett earned nominations for two 2006 Grammy Awards, one as Producer of the Year for his work on Cassandra Wilson's Thunderbird album, the soundtrack to Walk the Line and his own The True False Identity. Walk the Line was nominated for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. Burnett earned another nomination for his efforts as Executive Music Producer and Album Producer on that soundtrack.
In October 2007, the Grammy-winning, Burnett-produced Raising Sand, a collaborative album featuring Alison Krauss and Robert Plant was released. Burnett plays guitar on ten of the 13 tracks.
In early 2008, Pete Townshend announced that Burnett was to go into the studio that fall to help produce an all covers album for The Who.[8] However, on a May 15, 2008, episode of the NPR radio show, All Songs Considered, Burnett threw that project into question. He stated that in a blog, Townshend had indicated that he was putting all his projects on hold.[9]
In 2008, it was reported that Burnett "started a new venture called Code, which aims to do for music what THX did for movie-theater sound: set standards that ensure the best possible quality."[10] He is opposed to the trend of brighter and more compressed processing, sufficiently so, that he essentially retired from the music business around 1995–1996 and pursued an opportunity to work in theater with Sam Shepard, leading to his work on several films.[11]
The audio format known as Code, involves the simultaneous release of multiple sound formats, thus avoiding much of the processing which happens when sound is converted from one format to another. Burnett produced John Mellencamp's album Life, Death, Love and Freedom, which was the first Code album when it was released on July 15, 2008.[10] Burnett also produced Mellencamp's follow-up to Life, Death, Love and Freedom, titled No Better Than This.
In 2009, Burnett produced albums for Moonalice and Grace Potter and the Nocturnals.[12] In that same year, he also produced Elvis Costello's album, Secret, Profane & Sugarcane as well as co-writing the song "Sulfur to Sugarcane" with Costello.[13]
Burnett produced a collaboration album by Elton John and Leon Russell. John, Russell, and Bernie Taupin (John's lyricist) wrote songs together in late 2009. The album, which is titled The Union, was recorded in January 2010 and released in October 2010.
In 2010, Burnett produced Gregg Allman's Low Country Blues album (released in January 2011).[14]
Burnett has started production, as of January 2011, on Lisa Marie Presley's third album Storm And Grace in Los Angeles. The album was released on May 15, 2012.
In 2014, Burnett worked on the production of the forthcoming album by the Punch Brothers.
Work in films
In 1992, Burnett worked on some songs with his friend River Phoenix, for the movie The Thing Called Love. He was the coach of Samantha Mathis.
In 2000, Burnett produced the soundtrack and wrote the score for the Coen Brothers film, O Brother, Where Art Thou?. The award-winning soundtrack featured music from Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Ralph Stanley, Gillian Welch, and others performing traditional American folk music, blues and bluegrass – reminiscent of Burnett's 1986 self-titled release. The album was a hit, garnering numerous industry awards from the Grammys, Academy of Country Music,[further explanation needed] and the Country Music Association.[further explanation needed] The album was as much a commercial success as a critical one and has sold over seven million copies according to the Recording Industry Association of America.
A documentary film, Down from the Mountain, was made of a benefit concert of the soundtrack performed by the artists on the album; Burnett figures prominently in the film. For producing the soundtrack albums for these two films, and for his wife Sam Phillips' Fan Dance album, Burnett won the 2002 Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical. Burnett went on to produce the less popular gospel soundtrack to the Coen's The Ladykillers.
In 2004, under his name "Henry Burnett", he arranged "I Wish My Baby Was Born" and wrote "Like a Songbird That Has Fallen", and "Scarlet Tide" for the movie Cold Mountain. "Scarlet Tide", co-written with Elvis Costello and performed by Alison Krauss, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song and won BAFTA's Anthony Asquith Award for Achievement in Film Music.
In 2005, he composed the score for Wim Wenders' film Don't Come Knocking.
In 2005, he worked with actors Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon for their singing roles as Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash in the film Walk the Line. Witherspoon won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film, giving special thanks to Burnett in her speech for "helping her realize her lifelong dream of being a country music singer". He also produced that film's soundtrack album and wrote its score.
In 2009, Burnett collaborated on music for the movie Crazy Heart, winning a Golden Globe, an Academy Award, and a Grammy Award for the song "The Weary Kind" that he composed with Ryan Bingham. T Bone was also a producer of the film, along with Jeff Bridges and Robert Duvall.[15]
In 2013, he took the role of Executive Music Producer for the Coen brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis.
Awards and accolades
Academy Awards
On January 27, 2004, Burnett was nominated for an Academy Award, along with Elvis Costello in the category of Best Original Song for "Scarlet Tide" from the film, Cold Mountain. On March 7, 2010, Burnett and Ryan Bingham won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart.[citation needed]
BAFTA Anthony Asquith Award
On January 26, 2010, Burnett and Crazy Heart collaborator Stephen Bruton received BAFTA's Anthony Asquith Award for Achievement in Film Music for their work on Cold Mountain.[citation needed]
Critics Choice Awards
On January 15, 2010, Burnett and Ryan Bingham were awarded the prize for Best Song at the 15th annual Critics Choice Awards on Friday night. The awards are bestowed annually by the Broadcast Film Critics Association to honor the finest in cinematic achievement. Burnett and Bingham won the award for writing "The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart.[citation needed]
Frederick Loewe Award
On December 10, 2009, Burnett was presented with the Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing, for his work on Crazy Heart, at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
Golden Globe Awards
On January 17, 2010, Burnett and Ryan Bingham were awarded a Golden Globe in the category of Best Original Song for "The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart. On December 13, 2012, Burnett, Taylor Swift and John-Paul White and Joy Williams of The Civil Wars were nominated in the category of Best Original Song for "Safe And Sound" from The Hunger Games.[citation needed]
Grammy Awards
On January 7, 1993, Burnett was nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Contemporary Folk Album for The Criminal Under My Own Hat. On February 27, 2002, Burnett won four Grammys for his work on the soundtrack to O Brother, Where Art Thou?, in the categories of Album of the Year, Best Traditional Folk Album and Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. He was also awarded the Grammy as Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, for his work on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, the Down from the Mountain soundtrack, and the album Fan Dance by his wife, Sam Phillips.
On February 23, 2003, Burnett won a Grammy in the category of Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for his work on A Wonderful World. On February 8, 2006, Burnett won a Grammy in the category of Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media, for his work on Walk the Line. On February 8, 2009, Burnett was awarded Grammys for Album of the Year and Best Contemporary Folk Album for his work on the Robert Plant and Alison Krauss album, Raising Sand; Record of the Year for his work on "Please Read the Letter", also from Raising Sand; and Best Traditional Blues Album for his work on B.B. King's One Kind Favor.
On December 2, 2009, Burnett was nominated for a Grammy in the categories of Best Contemporary Folk Album and Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, for his work on Elvis Costello's Secret, Profane & Sugarcane.
On January 13, 2011, Burnett was awarded Grammys in the categories of Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media, for his work on Crazy Heart, and Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media, along with Stephen Bruton, for "The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart)".
On December 5, 2012, Burnett was nominated twice in the Grammy category of Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media; with Win Butler & Régine Chassagne of Arcade Fire for the song "Abraham's Daughter", and with Taylor Swift, John-Paul White and Joy Williams (The Civil Wars) for "Safe and Sound", both from The Hunger Games.
Independent Spirit Awards
On March 5, 2010, Burnett and fellow Crazy Heart producers Robert Duvall, Rob Carliner and Judy Cairo, along with director Scott Cooper, received Best First Feature honors at the 25th Annual Independent Spirit Awards.
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award
On January 16, 2010, Burnett and his longtime friend and collaborator on Crazy Heart, Stephen Bruton, were awarded Best Music Score honors for their work on that film by The Los Angeles Film Critics Association at their 35th Annual Awards Ceremony. Bruton died on May 9, 2009, shortly after completing work on the film.[citation needed]
Satellite Award
On December 20, 2009, Burnett won a Satellite Award from the International Press Academy in the category of Original Song for writing "The Weary Kind", from Crazy Heart, with Ryan Bingham.
Burnett has produced artists such as Autolux, Roy Orbison, Lisa Marie Presley, John Mellencamp, Los Lobos, Counting Crows, Elton John and Leon Russell, BoDeans, Elvis Costello, Diana Krall, Natalie Merchant and The Wallflowers as well as Tony Bennett and k.d. lang on the A Wonderful World album. Burnett won Grammy Awards for the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack and for his work with Alison Krauss and Robert Plant. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his songwriting contribution to the film Cold Mountain, and won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart. He founded the record label DMZ, an imprint of Columbia, and was involved with Mark Heard and Tonio K in the short-lived What? Records. He oversaw the music for the films Walk the Line, The Big Lebowski, and Inside Llewyn Davis.
Early life and musical career
Burnett was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1948, and raised in Fort Worth, Texas.[1] He attended R. L. Paschal High School, and is featured in the school's Hall of Honor.[2] He played rhythm guitar in a band called The Shadows. His first significant contribution to the music field was as the manic drummer for the Legendary Stardust Cowboy's novelty hit, "Paralyzed."[3]
T Bone first appeared on The Unwritten Works of Geoffrey, Etc. as part of the pseudonymous Whistler, Chaucer, Detroit and Greenhill, released in 1968 on Uni Records and on which he also produced and wrote 4 of the 11 tracks.[4] Also, in 1968, he produced 6 songs for a group of friends, called at the time, "The Case Hardy Boys". Later this band would move to Los Angeles and become known first as "The Fare", and later as "El Roacho", and would have songs produced by T Bone Burnett and Daniel Moore (who sang on T Bone's most recent album), as well as Steve Katz. In 1972, he moved to Los Angeles and recorded his second album, The B-52 Band and the Fabulous Skylarks.[1] In 1975 and 1976, he toured with Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue.[1]
When the Revue ended, Burnett and two other members of Dylan's band, David Mansfield and Steven Soles, formed The Alpha Band,[1] which released three albums. The Alpha Band and Spark in the Dark were both released in 1977, while The Statue Makers of Hollywood was released in 1978.
T Bone and singer-songwriter Sam Phillips were married in 1989 and divorced in 2004. He produced many of her albums, including Martinis and Bikinis and Cruel Inventions. He is currently married to writer-producer Callie Khouri.[5]
Solo career
In 1980, Burnett released his first post-Alpha Band solo album, Truth Decay, produced by Reggie Fisher, on the Takoma Records label. Truth Decay was a roots rock album described by the Rolling Stone Record Guide as "mystic Christian blues". In 1982, his Trap Door EP, (also produced by Reggie Fisher) and released on the Warner Brothers label, yielded the FM radio hit "I Wish You Could Have Seen Her Dance". Burnett toured after the release of Trap Door, opening several dates for The Who, leading a band that featured Mick Ronson on guitar. His 1983 album Proof Through the Night, whose song "When the Night Falls" got some FM airplay, and his 1987 album The Talking Animals were more in the vein of 1980s new wave music, while his self-titled 1986 album was an album of acoustic country music. His 1992 album The Criminal Under My Own Hat, tended toward adult album alternative music. All were critically acclaimed but not big sellers commercially.[citation needed]
Proof Through the Night was reissued by Rhino Records' Handmade Music in a limited-edition of 5,000 on May 29, 2007, in an expanded version. The double CD also included the EPs Trap Door and Behind the Trap Door.[6] In 2006, he released two albums. The True False Identity was his first album of new songs since 1992, and Twenty Twenty – The Essential T Bone Burnett was a 40-song career retrospective.
Production and other professional activities
See also: List of albums produced by T-Bone Burnett
Burnett began producing albums for artists such as Counting Crows' August and Everything After; Los Lobos' How Will the Wolf Survive?; Elvis Costello's King of America and Spike; the Wallflowers' Bringing Down the Horse; Marshall Crenshaw's Downtown; Spinal Tap's Break Like The Wind; Gillian Welch's Revival and Hell Among the Yearlings; David Poe's self-titled debut; the Roy Orbison tribute A Black & White Night Live; two albums for Bruce Cockburn; and nearly everything released by his former wife, Sam Phillips, who has also performed under the name Leslie Phillips.
In 1985, Burnett collaborated with Elvis Costello on a single titled "The People's Limousine," using the moniker "The Coward Brothers." In 1987, he produced Roy Orbison's two-record album, In Dreams: The Greatest Hits and two songs of Mystery Girl. In 1997, he created new songs for the Sam Shepard play, The Tooth of Crime: Second Dance, which premiered in New York City, during the same year in an off-Broadway production that featured Vincent D'Onofrio and Kirk Acevedo. A CD of these songs, Tooth of Crime, was released in May 2008, featuring guitarist Marc Ribot and backing vocals by Sam Phillips and singer/songwriter David Poe, whose self-titled debut Burnett also produced that year. According to Burnett, he was inspired by the music of Skip James, while composing the songs for the updated version of Shepard's play.[7]
In April 2006, he announced that his first concert tour in nearly two decades would begin on May 16 in Chicago at The Vic Theater. Around the same time, jazz singer Cassandra Wilson released an album of blues songs, Thunderbird (2006), which was produced by Burnett. He also wrote one of the album's songs and co-wrote another with Ethan Coen. He produced music for the remake of the film All the King's Men. In 2006, Burnett produced Brandi Carlile's The Story album, the title song of which became a minor hit and was featured on a special broadcast of ABC-TV's Grey's Anatomy. Carlile's guitarist and bassist, twins Tim and Phil Hanseroth, respectively, used instruments from Burnett's private collection during the unique "live" recordings in Vancouver, British Columbia. In early 2007, Burnett earned nominations for two 2006 Grammy Awards, one as Producer of the Year for his work on Cassandra Wilson's Thunderbird album, the soundtrack to Walk the Line and his own The True False Identity. Walk the Line was nominated for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. Burnett earned another nomination for his efforts as Executive Music Producer and Album Producer on that soundtrack.
In October 2007, the Grammy-winning, Burnett-produced Raising Sand, a collaborative album featuring Alison Krauss and Robert Plant was released. Burnett plays guitar on ten of the 13 tracks.
In early 2008, Pete Townshend announced that Burnett was to go into the studio that fall to help produce an all covers album for The Who.[8] However, on a May 15, 2008, episode of the NPR radio show, All Songs Considered, Burnett threw that project into question. He stated that in a blog, Townshend had indicated that he was putting all his projects on hold.[9]
In 2008, it was reported that Burnett "started a new venture called Code, which aims to do for music what THX did for movie-theater sound: set standards that ensure the best possible quality."[10] He is opposed to the trend of brighter and more compressed processing, sufficiently so, that he essentially retired from the music business around 1995–1996 and pursued an opportunity to work in theater with Sam Shepard, leading to his work on several films.[11]
The audio format known as Code, involves the simultaneous release of multiple sound formats, thus avoiding much of the processing which happens when sound is converted from one format to another. Burnett produced John Mellencamp's album Life, Death, Love and Freedom, which was the first Code album when it was released on July 15, 2008.[10] Burnett also produced Mellencamp's follow-up to Life, Death, Love and Freedom, titled No Better Than This.
In 2009, Burnett produced albums for Moonalice and Grace Potter and the Nocturnals.[12] In that same year, he also produced Elvis Costello's album, Secret, Profane & Sugarcane as well as co-writing the song "Sulfur to Sugarcane" with Costello.[13]
Burnett produced a collaboration album by Elton John and Leon Russell. John, Russell, and Bernie Taupin (John's lyricist) wrote songs together in late 2009. The album, which is titled The Union, was recorded in January 2010 and released in October 2010.
In 2010, Burnett produced Gregg Allman's Low Country Blues album (released in January 2011).[14]
Burnett has started production, as of January 2011, on Lisa Marie Presley's third album Storm And Grace in Los Angeles. The album was released on May 15, 2012.
In 2014, Burnett worked on the production of the forthcoming album by the Punch Brothers.
Work in films
In 1992, Burnett worked on some songs with his friend River Phoenix, for the movie The Thing Called Love. He was the coach of Samantha Mathis.
In 2000, Burnett produced the soundtrack and wrote the score for the Coen Brothers film, O Brother, Where Art Thou?. The award-winning soundtrack featured music from Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Ralph Stanley, Gillian Welch, and others performing traditional American folk music, blues and bluegrass – reminiscent of Burnett's 1986 self-titled release. The album was a hit, garnering numerous industry awards from the Grammys, Academy of Country Music,[further explanation needed] and the Country Music Association.[further explanation needed] The album was as much a commercial success as a critical one and has sold over seven million copies according to the Recording Industry Association of America.
A documentary film, Down from the Mountain, was made of a benefit concert of the soundtrack performed by the artists on the album; Burnett figures prominently in the film. For producing the soundtrack albums for these two films, and for his wife Sam Phillips' Fan Dance album, Burnett won the 2002 Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical. Burnett went on to produce the less popular gospel soundtrack to the Coen's The Ladykillers.
In 2004, under his name "Henry Burnett", he arranged "I Wish My Baby Was Born" and wrote "Like a Songbird That Has Fallen", and "Scarlet Tide" for the movie Cold Mountain. "Scarlet Tide", co-written with Elvis Costello and performed by Alison Krauss, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song and won BAFTA's Anthony Asquith Award for Achievement in Film Music.
In 2005, he composed the score for Wim Wenders' film Don't Come Knocking.
In 2005, he worked with actors Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon for their singing roles as Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash in the film Walk the Line. Witherspoon won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film, giving special thanks to Burnett in her speech for "helping her realize her lifelong dream of being a country music singer". He also produced that film's soundtrack album and wrote its score.
In 2009, Burnett collaborated on music for the movie Crazy Heart, winning a Golden Globe, an Academy Award, and a Grammy Award for the song "The Weary Kind" that he composed with Ryan Bingham. T Bone was also a producer of the film, along with Jeff Bridges and Robert Duvall.[15]
In 2013, he took the role of Executive Music Producer for the Coen brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis.
Awards and accolades
Academy Awards
On January 27, 2004, Burnett was nominated for an Academy Award, along with Elvis Costello in the category of Best Original Song for "Scarlet Tide" from the film, Cold Mountain. On March 7, 2010, Burnett and Ryan Bingham won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart.[citation needed]
BAFTA Anthony Asquith Award
On January 26, 2010, Burnett and Crazy Heart collaborator Stephen Bruton received BAFTA's Anthony Asquith Award for Achievement in Film Music for their work on Cold Mountain.[citation needed]
Critics Choice Awards
On January 15, 2010, Burnett and Ryan Bingham were awarded the prize for Best Song at the 15th annual Critics Choice Awards on Friday night. The awards are bestowed annually by the Broadcast Film Critics Association to honor the finest in cinematic achievement. Burnett and Bingham won the award for writing "The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart.[citation needed]
Frederick Loewe Award
On December 10, 2009, Burnett was presented with the Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing, for his work on Crazy Heart, at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
Golden Globe Awards
On January 17, 2010, Burnett and Ryan Bingham were awarded a Golden Globe in the category of Best Original Song for "The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart. On December 13, 2012, Burnett, Taylor Swift and John-Paul White and Joy Williams of The Civil Wars were nominated in the category of Best Original Song for "Safe And Sound" from The Hunger Games.[citation needed]
Grammy Awards
On January 7, 1993, Burnett was nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Contemporary Folk Album for The Criminal Under My Own Hat. On February 27, 2002, Burnett won four Grammys for his work on the soundtrack to O Brother, Where Art Thou?, in the categories of Album of the Year, Best Traditional Folk Album and Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. He was also awarded the Grammy as Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, for his work on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, the Down from the Mountain soundtrack, and the album Fan Dance by his wife, Sam Phillips.
On February 23, 2003, Burnett won a Grammy in the category of Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for his work on A Wonderful World. On February 8, 2006, Burnett won a Grammy in the category of Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media, for his work on Walk the Line. On February 8, 2009, Burnett was awarded Grammys for Album of the Year and Best Contemporary Folk Album for his work on the Robert Plant and Alison Krauss album, Raising Sand; Record of the Year for his work on "Please Read the Letter", also from Raising Sand; and Best Traditional Blues Album for his work on B.B. King's One Kind Favor.
On December 2, 2009, Burnett was nominated for a Grammy in the categories of Best Contemporary Folk Album and Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, for his work on Elvis Costello's Secret, Profane & Sugarcane.
On January 13, 2011, Burnett was awarded Grammys in the categories of Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media, for his work on Crazy Heart, and Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media, along with Stephen Bruton, for "The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart)".
On December 5, 2012, Burnett was nominated twice in the Grammy category of Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media; with Win Butler & Régine Chassagne of Arcade Fire for the song "Abraham's Daughter", and with Taylor Swift, John-Paul White and Joy Williams (The Civil Wars) for "Safe and Sound", both from The Hunger Games.
Independent Spirit Awards
On March 5, 2010, Burnett and fellow Crazy Heart producers Robert Duvall, Rob Carliner and Judy Cairo, along with director Scott Cooper, received Best First Feature honors at the 25th Annual Independent Spirit Awards.
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award
On January 16, 2010, Burnett and his longtime friend and collaborator on Crazy Heart, Stephen Bruton, were awarded Best Music Score honors for their work on that film by The Los Angeles Film Critics Association at their 35th Annual Awards Ceremony. Bruton died on May 9, 2009, shortly after completing work on the film.[citation needed]
Satellite Award
On December 20, 2009, Burnett won a Satellite Award from the International Press Academy in the category of Original Song for writing "The Weary Kind", from Crazy Heart, with Ryan Bingham.
T-Bone Burnett - Man, don't dog your woman
This song was composed by JB Lenoir. You can find this version on Disc 2 of the Martin Scorcese Blues compilation "The Soul of a Man". http://www.amazon.com/Martin-Scorsese...
R.I.P.
Left Hand Frank Craig +11.1.1992
Southpaw guitarist Frank Craig (like many of his peers, he played an axe strung for a right-hander, strapping it on upside down) never really transcended his reputation as a trusty sideman instead of a leader -- and that was just fine with him. But he stepped into the spotlight long enough to sing four fine tunes for Alligator's Living Chicago Blues anthologies in 1978.
Craig was already conversant with the guitar when he moved to Chicago at age 14. Too young to play inside the Club Zanzibar (where Muddy Waters, Little Walter, and Wolf held forth), Frank and his teenaged pals, guitarist Eddie King and bassist Willie Black, played outside the joint for tips instead. Legit gigs with harpist Willie Cobbs, guitarist James Scott, Jr., Jimmy Dawkins, Junior Wells, Good Rockin' Charles, Jimmy Rogers, and Hound Dog Taylor kept Frank increasingly active on the Chicago circuit from the mid-'50s to the late '70s. He moved to Los Angeles not too long after the Alligator session, eventually hanging up his guitar altogether due to health problems.
Craig was already conversant with the guitar when he moved to Chicago at age 14. Too young to play inside the Club Zanzibar (where Muddy Waters, Little Walter, and Wolf held forth), Frank and his teenaged pals, guitarist Eddie King and bassist Willie Black, played outside the joint for tips instead. Legit gigs with harpist Willie Cobbs, guitarist James Scott, Jr., Jimmy Dawkins, Junior Wells, Good Rockin' Charles, Jimmy Rogers, and Hound Dog Taylor kept Frank increasingly active on the Chicago circuit from the mid-'50s to the late '70s. He moved to Los Angeles not too long after the Alligator session, eventually hanging up his guitar altogether due to health problems.
Left Hand Frank - Last Night Vocal Version
Little Hatch (October 25, 1921 – January 14, 2003)[1] was an American electric blues singer, musician, and harmonica player. He variously worked with George Jackson and John Paul Drum.[1]
Biography
Born Provine Hatch, Jr. in Sledge, Mississippi,[1] he learned to play harmonica from his father. Hearing blues and gospel music, Hatch knew he wanted to make music for a living. At age 14, his family moved to Helena, Arkansas and the blues scene caught his attention.
Hatch joined the Navy in 1943; after his tour of duty, he relocated to Kansas City, Missouri in 1946. After working for a cartage company for two years, he founded his own cartage business and married.
In the early 1950s, Hatch began jamming in blues clubs of Kansas City. He closed his business in 1954 and took a job with Hallmark Cards. In 1955, he formed and fronted his own band, playing on the weekends and a few nights a week. This act would continue for more than 20 years. By the late 1950s, Hatch's harmonica style became influenced by Chicago blues players such as Little Walter, Snooky Pryor and Junior Wells.
In 1971 German exchange university students recorded a Little Hatch performance. This became an album, entitled The Little Hatchet Band, but distribution was limited to Germany and Belgium. He retired from Hallmark in 1986 and his band, 'Little Hatch and the House Rockers', were hired as the house band of the Grand Emporium Saloon in Kansas City.[1] A cassette of his blues performances at the Grand Emporium was released in 1988.
In 1993, the Modern Blues label released Well, All Right! and became his first nationally-distributed album. In 1997, Chad Kassem opened Blue Heaven Studios and founded the APO label. Kassem had befriended Little Hatch in the mid 1980s and asked him to be his first signed recording artist. In 2000, the album Goin' Back was released and was followed by Rock with Me Baby in 2003.
From 1999 to 2001, Hatch occasionally toured other parts of the United States, and twice toured Europe. He settled back down as a Kansas City performer, frequently playing at BB's Lawnside Bar-B-Q and other venues. In 2002, Hatch was diagnosed with cancer.
Hatch died in El Dorado Springs, Missouri, in January 2003.
Little Hatch Rehearsal
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