T-Bone Burnett has also written and performed on Costello's albums.

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Producer T-Bone Burnett kept the album's focus squarely on Welch and her musical partner, David Rawlings.

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There's another connection here, too: It's been widely reported that T-Bone Burnett was one of the people who escorted Dylan into evangelical Christianity in the late 1970s.

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Producer T-Bone Burnett who has helmed records for Counting Crows and Sam Phillips as well as the Grammy Award-winning O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack told Carlile to concentrate on her singing and her lyrics.

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