T-Bone Burnett Net Worth

T-Bone Burnett Net Worth: T-Bone Burnett is an American musician, songwriter, soundtrack and record producer who has a net worth of $16 million. T-Bone Burnett has earned his net worth producing records for many artists, as well as composing sound tracks for movies. He is also the founder the record company called DMZ. Born Joseph Henry Burnett on January 14, 1948, in St. Louis Missouri, he earned his first credits in the world of music through record production and sound composition for movies. A high-schooler playing in a band called The Shadows, T-Bone made his first major contribution to music as a drummer for the Legendary Stardust Cowboy’s novelty hit, “Paralyzed.” Since, he has continued to work actively with fellow musicians or solo, producing various songs. In 1975 and 1976, he joined Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue on tour as a guitarist. Afterwards, Burnett and two other members of Dylan’s band, David Mansfield and Steven Soles, formed a band of their own called The Alpha Band. They saw the release of three albums, The Alpha Band (1976), Spark in the Dark (1977), and The Statue Makers of Hollywood (1978). As a producer, he has helped many artists like Roy Orbison, Lisa Marie Presley, Los Lobos, Elton John & Leon Russell, Elvis Costello and his wife Diana Krall, get into the limelight. What’s more, he gets credits for his work with Natalie Merchant and The Wallflowers, as well as Tony Bennett and k.d. lang on the A Wonderful World album. Burnett’s opus fetched him several nominations, along with a Grammy and a Academy award for his soundtrack (Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou?) and the single (The Weary Kid) respectively. He is also credited for his musical roles in movies like The Big Lebowski (1998) and Walk the Line (2005).