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after you grab resonance, once I started understanding reflection and resonance, then that was it. My real pursuit, I think, has been sound at the end of the day… the thing that’s led me the whole way. We recorded that Truth Decay record in a room in a garage no bigger than this hotel room, with one mic out in the hallway that was the reverb for the whole record. That one mic became the room sound. Where we recorded we were all close together but you put on the record and it sounded big. Co-producer Reggie Fisher wasn’t an experienced producer at all, but he had some real sense of space and knew something about psycho-acoustics. I learned a lot from him in that regard. He was very careful.”
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“The other thing, I’d say, was a place in Fort Worth called the Skyliner Ballroom. There was music and strippers. My first gig was at the Skyliner Ballroom but I started going there when I was about fourteen, sort of sneaking in to hear music. I heard Ike and Tina Turner play there. It was never very full so had this big cav- ernous sound and it was the most exciting sound I’d ever heard. Hearing Ike and Tina Turner in there just rip it up, with all that excitement going on in the room. They recorded a live album there and now that everything’s on line I looked it up, bought it, put it on and sure enough, there was the sound of that room that I remembered and I realised that’s what my records sound like. I’m still trying to make it sound like the Skyliner Ballroom.”
-Bone’s film soundtrack work (including four Coen films, the Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line, Anthony Minghella’s Civil War film Cold Mountain, and Crazy Heart which earned him an Oscar for the song The Weary Kind) runs parallel to his career as a music pro- ducer for a staggering range of musicians that includes Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, Los Lobos, Greg Allman, BB King, KD Lang, Elton John, Leon Russell, Elvis Costello and Roy Orbison. Along the way T-Bone has gathered a staggering collection of thirteen Grammy Awards to sit alongside his Oscar.
As a parting shot I pitch to T-Bone as to when he first felt he’d acquired his Midas touch? With a wry smile he answers “I’ve always felt that. I will say, I’ve always felt incredibly blessed in my life. I’ve had a long life of making music. That, for me, was enough right there.”
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