{"id":39759,"date":"2006-05-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/the-true-false-identity\/"},"modified":"2006-05-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-16T00:00:00","slug":"the-true-false-identity","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/the-true-false-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"The True False Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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T-Bone Burnett is one of those names you know you
\nshould know from somewhere on some album in some time. In the case
\nof The True False Identity<\/i>, you may have known and forgot;
\nit’s T-Bone’s first offering as a singer\/songwriter since 1992.<\/p>\n

Burnett has kept plenty busy during his hiatus,
\nsnagging four Grammies for his work composing and arranging the
\nmassively successful O Brother, Where Art Thou?<\/i> soundtrack
\nback in 2002. He produced exceptional LPs for the likes of Elvis
\nCostello, Counting Crows, The Wallflowers and young rootsy crooner
\nGillian Welch in the 90s.<\/p>\n

Yeah, now you know you knew him from somewhere.
\nT-Bone also played guitar on Bob Dylan’s legendary Rolling Thunder
\nRevue of the mid-1970s before founding the Alpha Band with some
\ntour mates. True False<\/i> actually strikes a similarity to
\nDylan’s late-career recorded-in-a-tin-can classic Time Out Of
\nMind<\/i>. It’s dripping with multi-layered, watery stomps and
\nstream-of-consciousness stanzas that evoke 1950s AM radio nostalgia
\ninspired by Highway 61<\/i>.<\/p>\n

The lyrics won’t change any lives, though: “If I
\ncould only see through glass \/ I would know what has come to pass \/
\nI wouldn’t hurry, but I’d get there fast \/ What’s last is first,
\nwhat’s first is last” Burnett recites on “Every Time I Feel The
\nShift.” There’s more fun with clich\u00c3\u00a9s on the opening verse
\nof “Fear Country:” “The cat’s out of the bag and it ain’t going
\nback \/ Your plan has hit a snag, it has fallen off the track.”<\/p>\n

But, the listener is rewarded with superior
\nmusicianship and carefully produced backing tracks throughout.<\/p>\n

True False<\/i> is a spiritual volume, with a soul
\nthat emerges in choral refrains and foot-stomping rhythms held in
\nplace by jug band aesthetics. There’s plenty of electricity too,
\nthough, best represented in the slow faux-reggae crawl of opener
\n“Zombieland,” the riffy sludge of “Blinded By The Darkness,” or the
\nfunky, Beck-like intro to “Palestine, Texas.”<\/p>\n

An acoustic-leaning intermission at the halfway point
\nblends the folky “I’m Going On A Long Journey Never To Return,”
\nwith the skilled picking behind “A Poem Of The Evening: Hollywood,
\nMecca Of The Movies” rather nicely. The rootsy stroll of “There
\nWould Be Hell To Pay” and Orbinson-esque pop of “Baby Don’t Say You
\nLove Me” round out the album’s better tunes.<\/p>\n

What’s truly remarkable about True False<\/i> is
\nthe large and varied influences behind the sound and Burnett’s
\nskillfully cohesive presentation. It ranks high in the “first album
\nin 10+ years” category and seems a good introduction to Burnett’s
\nwork on both sides of the studio glass.<\/p>\n

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