T Bone Burnett
Wins
10
Nominations
23
Category
Biography
"Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan."
- Born Joseph Henry Burnett III Jan. 14, 1948, in St. Louis, Missouri.
- T Bone Burnett released his first solo album, Truth Decay, in 1980. Throughout his extensive career, he has produced albums for artists such as the Counting Crows, Elvis Costello, John Mellencamp, the Wallflowers, Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, and Elton John and Leon Russell. He has also contributed music to films such as The Thing Called Love, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Crazy Heart, Walk The Line, and The Hunger Games.
- He won four GRAMMYs for his contribution to the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, including Album Of The Year and Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical. At the 55th GRAMMY Awards, Burnett made his GRAMMY stage debut as part of a tribute to Levon Helm alongside Mavis Staples, Elton John and Alabama Shakes' Brittany Howard, among others.
- Burnett was a touring musician on Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour in 1975–1976.
- The GRAMMY winner was honored with the President's Merit Award at the 2011 Producers & Engineers Wing GRAMMY Week celebration in recognition of his commitment to excellence and ongoing support for the art and craft of recorded music.
- Burnett served as the musical director for the 2017 MusiCares Person of the Year tribute concert honoring Tom Petty. The annual gala raises funds for MusiCares, which provides services and resources that cover a wide range of financial, medical and personal emergencies for music people.
All Grammy Awards and Nominations for T Bone Burnett
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Best Americana Album
The Other Side
T Bone Burnett
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Best American Roots Song
High And Lonesome
T Bone Burnett, Robert Plant
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Best Song Written For Visual Media
Abraham's Daughter (From The Hunger Games)
T Bone Burnett, Win Butler, Régine Chassagne
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Best Song Written For Visual Media Winner
Safe & Sound (From The Hunger Games)
T Bone Burnett, John Paul White, Joy Williams, Taylor Swift
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Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media Winner
Crazy Heart
T Bone Burnett, Stephen Bruton
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Best Song Written For Visual Media Winner
The Weary Kind (From Crazy Heart)
T Bone Burnett, Ryan Bingham
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Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical
T Bone Burnett
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Album Of The Year Winner
Raising Sand
T Bone Burnett, Robert Plant, Gavin Lurssen, Mike Piersante, Alison Krauss
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Best Traditional Blues Album Winner
One Kind Favor
T Bone Burnett, Mike Piersante, B.B. King
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Record Of The Year Winner
Please Read The Letter
T Bone Burnett, Robert Plant, Mike Piersante, Alison Krauss
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Contemporary Folk Album Winner
Raising Sand
T Bone Burnett, Robert Plant, Mike Piersante, Alison Krauss
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Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media
Across The Universe
T Bone Burnett, Teese Gohl, Elliot Goldenthal
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Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical
Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical
T Bone Burnett
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Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media Winner
Walk The Line
T Bone Burnett, Joaquin Phoenix, Mike Piersante
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Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media
Cold Mountain
T Bone Burnett
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Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical
Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical
T Bone Burnett
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Best Song Written For Visual Media
The Scarlet Tide (From Cold Mountain)
T Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello
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Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album Winner
A Wonderful World
Dae Bennett, Tony Bennett, T Bone Burnett, k.d. lang
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Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical Winner
T Bone Burnett
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Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media Winner
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
T Bone Burnett, Peter Kurland, Mike Piersante
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Album Of The Year Winner
O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Soundtrack
Harley Allen, Nathan Best, Ron Block, Norman Blake, T Bone Burnett, Pat Enright, Sidney Cox, Willard Cox, Robert Hamlett, Chris Thomas King, Peter Kurland, Sarah Peasall, Hannah Peasall, Leah Peasall, Joseph Rice, Chris Sharp, Dan Tyminski, Buck White, Sharon White-Skaggs, Sam Bush, Cox Family, Alison Krauss & Union Station, The Whites, Mike Compton, James Hill, Gavin Lurssen, Tim Blake Nelson, Barry Bales, John Hartford, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Isaac Freeman, Evelyn Cox, Suzanne Cox, Emmylou Harris, Mike Piersante, Wilson Waters, Jr., Ralph Stanley, Peasall Sisters, Cheryl White, Gillian Welch, Fairfield Four, Alison Krauss
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Traditional Folk Album Winner
Down From The Mountain
T Bone Burnett, Mike Piersante
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Contemporary Folk Album
The Criminal Under My Own Hat (Album)
T Bone Burnett
