T Bone Burnett - The True False Identity [DualDisc]

As a musician and songwriter, T-bone Burnett often manages the canny feat of seeming direct and elusive at the same time; there's an emotional power and clarity in his best music that's bracing, passionate, and scrupulously honest, but he's also capable of using his artifice to throw his messages into several directions at once, and it's sometimes difficult to tell just what his intended target was supposed to be (which is part of what makes his work fascinating in the first place). Usually, this gift works in Burnett's favor, but his aim seems less precise on The True False Identity than it has in the past; this is his first album since The Criminal Under My Own Hat in 1992. Read More