SATURDAY, APRIL 5 2025 • 8PM
SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 2025 • 8PM
THE TOWN HALL PRESENTS
AN EVENING WITH T BONE BURNETT
WITH Dennis Crouch BASS
Colin Linden GUITARS
David Mansfield
VIOLIN AND MANDOLIN
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There is no place like The Town Hall. Founded “to promote good citizenship, social justice and general enlightenment through the education and expression of public opinion,” our hall’s world-class acoustics quickly became a calling card, and for over a century, playing The Town Hall stage continues to be a ‘must’ for musicians and singers from all genres and backgrounds.
Whether visiting our storied auditorium for the first time, or returning to experience yet another great night live on our stage, you can feel the vitality in the room. The Town Hall is truly contemporary; purpose-built to open its doors to art, ideas and especially to you.
Whether visiting our storied auditorium for the first time, or returning to experience yet another great night live on our stage, you can feel the vitality in the room. The Town Hall is truly contemporary; purpose-built to open its doors to art, ideas and especially to you.
Upon its dedication in 1921, The League for Political Education opened the building you are now sitting in with the watchwords:
Upon its dedication in 1921, The League for Political Education opened the building you are now sitting in with the watchwords:
“It does not matter who you are, what you are, or from where you come, you are welcome.”
“It does not matter who you are, what you are, or from where you come, you are welcome.”
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As president of the non-profit organization that preserves our landmarked auditorium and produces the Town Hall Presents events like the one you are attending tonight, I thank you for coming to The Town Hall. On behalf of the Board of Trustees, and our incredible staff of professionals, I echo the sentiment of our founders and assure you that you are always welcome here.
Nevin Steinberg
Nevin Steinberg , President
T Bone Burnett
Oscar and GRAMMYWinning Songwriter and Producer Presents his New CD, The Other Side, and Looks Back on a Career Spanning More Than 50 Years
Co-produced by Colin Linden and Mike Piersante, The Other Side is his first solo recording of all-new material in 18 years. As some critics have noted, in it Burnett exchanged his trademark cautionary tales and warnings for a warmer, more generous perspective.
“I think I replaced all that cynicism with love,” he told Variety Burnett pointed at “Come Back” (When You Go Away), “the first song I wrote after starting to write again,” and how it ends with the line “Come back to the world my love.” “I think that’s something of a mission statement for the whole album.”
The Other Side was “the most pure experience of making music I’ve ever had,” he said — quite a statement for such a productive and much-decorated artist.
Born Joseph Henry Burnett in St Louis, Missouri, and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, he was fascinated by a wide range of styles and artists from Duke Ellington and Buddy Holly, to Jimmy Reed, The Beatles,
Photo: Jason Myers, Painting: Larry Poons
and Johnny Cash. He became a musician, songwriter, and producer and toured as a guitarist with Bob Dylan’s “Rolling Thunder Revue” during the 1970s. (He credits Dylan with pushing him “out of his comfort zone.”)
While he had a busy career as a singersongwriter, Burnett found even greater success as a producer, collaborating with artists such as Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, Elvis Costello, and Elton John, and writing soundtracks including O Brother Where Art Thou?, The Big Lebowski, Crazy Heart, and Walk the Line. He has won 13 Grammy Awards, an Oscar, a Golden Globe, and a long list of honors in music and film, including two from the Academy of Country Music and two from the Country Music Association.
For his performance at The Town Hall, Burnett will be accompanied by Dennis Crouch on bass, Colin Linden on guitars, and David Mansfield on violin and mandolin. This special New York City show follows a sold-out fall leg of the tour, his first in 20 years.
“In a lot of ways, it feels like my first solo record,” he said. “Everything I’ve written up until now was written from within, and most often about, this dystopia we now find ourselves in. And this is the first record I’ve written since I escaped [it].”
He has openly discussed a recurring nightmare that he began to have when he was “about 11 or 12” and continued through his teenage years. “We were lined up in the parish hall of my Episcopal church in Fort Worth, Texas,” he told Variety. “And there were these shadow men at the far corner that you couldn’t make out.” In his dream, people’s right hands were being replaced with electronic tracking devices that could be controlled by those dark figures lording
over a terrifying landscape. “And I would wake up from that dream in a cold sweat, because I was already playing guitar at the time, and I would be almost screaming in the dream, ‘I gotta get outta here! They can’t take my hand.’ I would wake up in a panic.”
The nightmare came true for Burnett in the early 2000s, he said, when he walked into a coffee shop one day and saw everyone in it looking at their phones in silence. “I realized they hadn’t had to cut our hands off; they just put [this controller] in our hands. And I decided, OK, we’re here now in this dystopia I’ve been trying to warn about for more than 40 years, and so I want to wrap this up.”
In part as a response, he recorded two trio albums, The Invisible Light: Acoustic Space and The Invisible Light: Spells with Jay Bellerose and Keefus Ciancia, and while working on a third installment, “all these other songs started coming, I just realized I didn’t need T Bone Burnett anymore, whoever or whatever I thought I was. And so, I just let go of it all. I’m going to finish that resolution [to “Invisible Light ”] because it’s pretty interesting. But I really do consider this the first record of whoever I am now — that person.”
In it, he adds, “I tried to treat myself as kindly as I would try to treat other people.” As a producer, “I try to find the person’s best angle and light them so they look the most like themselves or the best version of themselves,” said Burnett. “And this time, rather than staying in the romantic notion I previously had of myself—of a rebellious artist, a firebrand, or whatever I thought I was trying to be—I just tried to be kind to myself. I have to say, without meaning to sound trite or any other negative quality, I think I replaced it with love.”
THE OTHER SIDE: TRACK BY TRACK
By Sarah Rodman
When T Bone Burnett began writing from a new perspective, he did so on some new guitars he had finally allowed himself to buy. The songs came fast. “Every time I picked one up, a song would pour out of it,” he recalls of this near-magical burst of creativity. “There were all these songs in these guitars. And they just came out over a three-week period.”
While Burnett had tinkered with a few of the tunes before this fruitful time span, the bulk of The Other Side simply materialized. Here, he talks about how they came to be.
“HE CAME DOWN”
This pastoral opener began life at Burnett’s kitchen table:
My wife Callie and I were sitting down one early morning, and she asked me something about a specific kind of music. And I said, “Well, it’s just like this.” And I sang the first couple of lines of “He Came Down,” and she said, “Record that right now.” And I said, “Record what?” Because it just came out, “After he climbed the mountain high, he came down. After he walked into the sky.” That was just an ad lib trying to explain something to her about folk music. But she heard it and knew that it was good.
The thing I love about starting with this song is the last chorus of it is, “Out on the highway traveling south/ Leaving a life he could live without/Nothing was bitter in his mouth/He came down/He came down.” The rest of the album, I feel, stays true to that and I realized, in retrospect, that there was a lot of bitterness in my mouth before that.
“ COME BACK (WHEN YOU GO AWAY)”
An ambling acoustic number, gently beseeching a spirit to return:
The first song I wrote after starting to write again was the song “Come Back.” It’s interesting because come back means a lot of different things but how it ends, “Come back to the world my love” —I think that’s something of a mission statement for the whole album.
“(I’M
GONNA
GET OVER THIS) SOME DAY ” with Rosanne Cash Burnett and Cash warm each other up in this spirited, at times comic jaunt about making peace, noting “I’m gonna get over this someday/I might as well get over it now”
Rosanne and I have loved each other for a long time, and we’ve done oneoff things together, but we’ve never recorded together. I decided to ask her because I could just hear her voice on it. It had to be whatever the Everly Brothers were, that interesting blend of country and blues. I think of the record as a country blues record, basically. Everything was recorded very quickly; nothing was labored over. So, when this was done, I sent it to Rosanne —and it came back just like that, as you hear it on the record.
“WAITING FOR YOU” with Lucius
The first of the album’s appearances by the gifted vocal duo, adding a spectral flourish:
They’re brilliant orchestrators and they’re brilliant conjurers. And I didn’t tell them a thing to do, just as with Rosanne and Steven Soles, they devised those parts.
“THE PAIN OF LOVE” with Lucius
A gem of wordplay featuring a litany of clever couplets, this is one of a few that Burnett wrote before his new spirit arrived, also featuring the vocals of Lucius:
That’s a piece I was writing as part of the last Invisible Light record. It had about 30 more couplets like that. But I narrowed it down to these particular ones to turn it into more of a pop- type song. I use a lot of titles all the way through this record, of other songs, of books, of movies. Each section, there’s a line and then there’s a title, for instance, “We can break rank, we can walk the line,” a nod to Johnny Cash. Or “We can give thanks/We can I, Me, Mine” which references George Harrison, who was also a major influence on me, going back to when I was 16.
“THE RACE IS WON” with Lucius
Another appearance by both the mysterious couple central to the album’s loose tale —on which plane they exist is unknown—and the ladies of Lucius
That one was also from Invisible Light. The race is won, W-O-N, but also the race is one, O-N-E. And that’s what that song is really about: Even though we’re in this painful place, the race is already won, meaning this is the way through, by recognition of the fact that we are one race.
“SOMETIMES I WONDER” with Weyes Blood
A gentle, bluesy musing about life’s big questions featuring unique harmonies courtesy of Weyes Blood:
I love this song. It’s going back to the very first music I loved and learned to play. When I started this record, I was calling it Fort Worth because I just wanted to go back to my first love of music, when I was innocent, before I had become so cynical. When I had less optimism than I have now, but I had more optimism than I had my whole working life.
Weyes Blood has got that beautiful tone that, once again, I could just hear her on top of that melody. She did a beautiful counter melody.
THE OTHER SIDE: CREDITS
HE CAME DOWN
Written by Henry Burnett
Published by Henry Burnett Music (BMI)
T Bone Burnett - Vocal
Colin Linden - Dobro
COME BACK (WHEN YOU GO AWAY)
Written by Henry Burnett
Published by Henry Burnett Music (BMI)
T Bone Burnett - Vocal, Acoustic Guitar
Colin Linden - Dobro, Acoustic Guitar
(I’M GONNA GET OVER THIS) SOME DAY with Rosanne Cash
Written by Henry Burnett
Published by Henry Burnett Music (BMI)
T Bone Burnett - Vocal, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar
Rosanne Cash - Harmony Vocal
Colin Linden - Dobro, Electric Guitar
Dennis Crouch - String Bass
WAITING FOR YOU with Lucius
Written by Henry Burnett and Colin Linden
Published by Henry Burnett Music (BMI)
T Bone Burnett - Vocal, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar
Lucius - Harmony Vocals
Colin Linden - Dobro, Kalamazoo Guitar, Electric Guitar
Dennis Crouch - String Bass
THE PAIN OF LOVE with Lucius
Written by Henry Burnett
Published by Henry Burnett Music (BMI)
T Bone Burnett - Vocal, Acoustic Guitar
Lucius - Harmony Vocals
Colin Linden - Electric Guitar
Dennis Crouch - String Bass
THE RACE IS WON with Lucius
Written by Henry Burnett
Published by Henry Burnett Music (BMI)
T Bone Burnett - Vocal, Acoustic Guitar
Lucius - Harmony Vocals
Peter More - Harmony Vocal
Colin Linden - Acoustic Guitar, National Guitar, 12-String Guitar
Rory Hoffman - Dobro, Claviola
Dennis Crouch - String Bass
Stuart Duncan - Mandolin
SOMETIMES I WONDER with Weyes Blood
Written by Henry Burnett and Colin Linden
Published by Henry Burnett Music (BMI)
T Bone Burnett - Vocal, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar
Weyes Blood - Harmony Vocal
Colin Linden - Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar
Jay Bellerose - Hand Claps and Tambourine
Michael Piersante - Hand Claps and Tambourine
HAWAIIAN BLUE SONG with Steven Soles
Written by Henry Burnett , Bob Neuwirth and Steven Soles
Published by Henry Burnett Music (BMI), Wixen Music Publishing (BMI), Specific Gravity Music (BMI)
T Bone Burnett - Vocal, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar
Steven Soles - Harmony Vocal, Hi Strung Acoustic Guitar
Colin Linden - Acoustic Guitar, Dobro
Dennis Crouch - String Bass
Stuart Duncan – Violin
THE FIRST LIGHT OF DAY
Written by Henry Burnett and Steven Soles
Published by Henry Burnett Music (BMI), Specific Gravity Music (BMI)
T Bone Burnett - Vocal, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar
Colin Linden - 12-String Guitar, Electric Guitar
Dennis Crouch - String Bass
Michael Piersante - Tambourine
EVERYTHING AND NOTHING
Written by Henry Burnett and Gary Nicholson
Published by Henry Burnett Music (BMI), Sony ATV/Crosskeys
Publishing (ASCAP), Gary Nicholson Music (ASCAP)
T Bone Burnett - Vocal, Electric Guitar
Colin Linden - Acoustic Guitar, 12-String Guitar
Dennis Crouch - String Bass
Rory Hoffman - Clarinet, Cuatro, Acoustic Guitar
Stuart Duncan - Mandolin, Violin
THE TOWN THAT TIME FORGOT with Lucius
Written by Henry Burnett and Peter More
Published by Henry Burnett Music (BMI)
T Bone Burnett - Vocal, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar
Lucius - Harmony Vocals
Peter More - Harmony Vocal
Colin Linden - Dobro, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar
Dennis Crouch - String Bass
LITTLE DARLING with Lucius
Written by Henry Burnett
Published by Henry Burnett Music (BMI)
T Bone Burnett - Vocal, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar
Lucius - Harmony Vocals
Colin Linden - Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar
Dennis Crouch - String Bass
Produced by Colin Linden, Michael Piersante and T Bone Burnett
ALL SONGS
Mixed by Michael Piersante at The Village Studio Z , Los Angeles, CA.
Mastered by Gavin Lurssen and Reuben Cohen at Lurssen Mastering , Burbank, CA
Tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 12 recorded by Mike Stankiewicz at Pinhead Recorders, Nashville, TN and ElectroMagnetic East , Nashville, TN
Tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11 recorded by Michael Piersante at The Village Studio Z , Los Angeles, CA and East Iris Studios, Nashville, TN
Tracks 6, 8, 11 recorded by Colin Linden at Pinhead Studios, Nashville, TN
Lucius (Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig) appear courtesy of Fantasy Records
Weyes Blood appears courtesy of Sub Pop Records
Rosanne Cash appears courtesy of Blue Note Records
Production Coordinator: Ivy Skoff
Production Assistance: Janice Powers
Artist Management: Larry Jenkins, LJ Entertainment, Los Angeles, CA
A&R Management: Emerson Sudbury
A&R Administration: Karen Console
Marketing: Jess Lechtenberg
Production/Release Coordination: Tom Arndt
Art Coordination: Tai Linzie
Art Direction & Design: Kyledidthis
Photography: Dan Winters
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