T Bone Burnett

•is white.
•grew up in Fort Worth and went to Paschal High School.
•is the childhood name of Joseph Henry Burnett.
•is 6-foot-6-inches tall and 60 years old.
•picked up an old Gibson guitar at age 9.
•along with three buddies put together $20000 at age 17 and bought a recording studio.
•is stage-shy and thus became a producer.
•produced Elvis Costello's King of America and How Will the Wolf Survive? for Los Lobos in the 1980s.
•was given total creative freedom in producing the music for the Coen Brothers' movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? for which he won a Grammy in 2002 for album of the year.
•went on to produce the music for Walk the Line, the movie about Johnny Cash.
•produced Raising Sand, the CD of the odd pairing of Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, who are currently on tour.
•is quoted as saying of his craft, "Making money isn't an appropriate goal for making music. If you want to print money, buy a printing press, not a guitar. The guitar is the wrong tool for that."