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March 14, 2002

Burnett, Coens to Start DMZ

New label will launch with "Ralph Stanley" this summer

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Tooth Of Crime

The best song on T Bone's relentlessly noir new album is "Kill Zone," a lyrical, Roy Orbison-style ballad — which Orbison himself co-wrote right before his death in 1988. That fact only hints at the oddity of this collection: Burnett, best known as producer to the stars (Robert Plant/Aliso...

2008 RS: 3of 5 Stars

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A terrific songwriter but a terrible sermonizer, T Bone Burnett -- back in the days before he devoted himself to producing such rootsy soundtrack albums as O Brother, Where Are Thou? and Cold Mountain -- made albums that offer an intriguing, sometimes maddening mixture of roots-oriented rock and high-minded rant. His first album, Truth Decay, is a solidly melodic, rockabilly-based outing that...

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