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When did T Bone Burnett start making music?
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T Bone Burnett's first song “Pretty Girls” released in 1980.
Joseph Henry “T-Bone” Burnett was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1948. T-Bone has been performing since the 60s, when he played rhythm guitar for The Shadows. In 1975, he toured with Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue for a year – after the Revue ended, he and two other members formed The Alpha Band. When they broke up in 1979, each member went... Read More
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