... is that T-Bone's later album "Proof Through The Night" is not available on CD ... yet! So I have to restrict myself to four stars on this one, because for me "Proof Through The Night" has the edge. Great songs, and superb assistance from the likes of David Mansfield and Richard Thompson (don't get me started). Love that line from "The Sixties" about "sun-tanned girls in halter tops, with their cut-offs slit up to their belt-loops"! If you need any other proof of T-Bone's genius, check out the CD or video of Roy Orbison's "Black and White Night" where he was the musical director. Enjoy.

By the third song of my first listening of Truth Decay, I was a T-Bone Burnett fan for life. He seems to be using his musical genius (yes! genius is not an over statement) these days as a producer.

If you want to hear him in his full song-writing, playing and producing glory, this is the album. I must have listened to this album a hundred times! I'm not kidding when I say that it is so superbly crafted that not a single rim shot is out-of-place. It's truly a masterpiece, even if unknown to the general public.

T-Bone seems to remain a musician's musician. He probably made a good career move into producing, where he seems to be widely appreciated. Start studying the liner notes of your CDs and you'll discover what a contribution he has made to the music industry.

I love the guy!