T Bone Burnett

Ringo Starr on holidaying in Ireland: ‘We hopped over on a plane, rented a car and found a little guesthouse for two nights’

The Beatles drummer on his former band and his new country album, Look Up, which features a line-up of Nashville stars

Sun Jan 12 2025 - 05:15

Getting lost on Bob Dylan’s river: ‘We felt if we dug it then he would, too’

When T Bone Burnett was asked to set a stash of lost Dylan lyrics to music, he put Elvis Costello, Marcus Mumford and Rhiannon Giddens, among others, in a room together. They jammed ‘the heart and soul out of each other’ to come up with ‘Lost on the River’

Sat Nov 15 2014 - 01:00

Tweety Pie – how Birdy went from doing covers to finding the fire within

Teen prodigy Jasmine van den Boegaerde – that’s Birdy to you and I – made her name with a cover of Bon Iver’s Skinny Love, then sealed her reputation with a fine album of original material. We catch up with her before her gig at Vicar St in Dublin

Fri Feb 28 2014 - 00:00