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“Troubled Land” Now Available On The T Bone Presents The Speaking Clock Revue Album
10.18.2011 - Exclusive performance of “Troubled Land” now available on the T Bone Presents The Speaking Clock Revue album, at
Amazon.com
In October 2010, T Bone Burnett organized
an impressive group of musicians, dubbed The Speaking Clock Revue, and joined
with Participant Media for concerts benefiting arts education. The Speaking
Clock Revue was recorded at the Beacon Theater in New York, and featured a house band made up
of musicians from many T Bone-produced recordings and led by music director and
guitarist Marc Ribot. The resulting album contains 11 previously unreleased
performances by Elton John and Leon Russell, Elvis Costello, John Mellencamp,
Gregg Allman, Ralph Stanley, Jeff Bridges, Neko Case, Yim Yames, Punch
Brothers, Karen Elson, and The Secret Sisters.
T Bone was inspired to do the fundraising concerts after attending an early
screening of Participant's documentary Waiting
for Superman, from Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim
(An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud), which focused on the
troubled state of public education in the U.S., following a handful of
promising students through a U.S. public school system and offering creative
new approaches to education reform. Proceeds from the sale of the album benefit
arts and music education in public schools.
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