"You know, Ronnie Hawkins once said, 'If the show's business doesn't work out, when I'm 80, I'm going to look for another job'," said T Bone Burnett. Burnett seemed happy to have a legendary rock character to quote a sarcastic sense of humor.

He continued: "I was thinking about this because it probably didn't work for me. I'm close to 80 (he's actually 78), and I thought, 'You know I'm going to be very good at influencers.' Don't you think? damn it You're out tonight," he agreed.

McCabe's crowd can think they are affected appropriately. Not that they have the ability to spread what Burnett said or sings, each of his six shows, three consecutive nights in six private 150 chair rooms, disappeared from his cell phone. On his first tour in 19 years, Burnett listen Rooms, even if the size of the venue is not provided to meet the needs established to see singers/songwriters/producers after avoiding the headline spotlight for nearly two decades.

Beyond the scale, he has other reasons—or lack of huge reasons—chooses the noble McCabe as the place where Los Angeles returns. It was an old week for Burnett and some of us who used to play there in the early and mid-80s, and then he almost gave up on his album or indulged in his concert dates to become a model for the leading modern record producers. "I love this old stimulating tonnage," Burnett said at a party Thursday night, which may be the first ever performer to slap this particular appeal in this alcohol-free room. “We used to have a lot of fun here in the past.”

It is true, but from there, many people who took away those who were pioneering performances of the past: the exercise he brought to McCabe to you, Gilman-Gilman-Gilman-Gilman-Holmy (your) is More It's fun because he brings a band and a string of blood will fall behind them. “I have to tell you that this is one of the great string bands you’ve ever heard,” he declared, before pulling players out one by one. As the children said, no lies were found. If like Burnett inevitably call his accompaniment, which could require a criminal investigation, would they completely improve the choice of older songs they play, and the performance of the latest "Other aspects" albums they do.

The first to join him was “I think there is no exaggeration in the world today’s best country blues guitarist, or he’s at least the best, at least the best,” Burnett noted, who played with Howlin’Wolf at the age of 12. David Mansfield. Dylan's rolling thunder sound happened to be 17 years ago. Dennis Crouch is “the best rock-bass player I know and a great jazz player,” Burnett has been playing in Nashville for many years. "Whenever I bring him into a record project, Diana Krall takes him away for two years and I can't find him," Burnett said. "Alison and Robert (Plant, a two-piece duo produced by Burnett) took him out for four years or something. Burnett's connection to Crouch dates back 25 years, while the 33-year-old who played with Linden and Mansfield was 50 years old.

Together they helped bring the joy of live performance back to Burnett’s life, or for the first time, as he often claimed that he had never really loved the stage for most of his past life. “I don’t want to get attention…I got in the car and learned how to not follow,” he quipped to the crowd. and “When I was a kid, I always looked at the audience as mobs of private life. Then, somewhere recently, not long ago, I realized, oh, they could be my close friends.” In places as small as McCabe (even smaller than El Rey), even Burnett played officially last time in 2006 – such a statement would count as more than Maxim beyond. If it seems possible that some listeners can catch it by having casual chat with singers, it’s hard to blame them for falling into fantasy because of the fantasy, which is a living room show that happens to be some of the world’s greatest players.

The format was much the same as it has been in the other cities Burnett has been doing these performances on and off since he released “The Other Side” in April 2024. He and his backing trio would perform that album front to back in its entirety, followed by a set of older material after an intervention — or, in this case, the performance continuing without interruption as Burnett announcements, “So, we just took a 15-minute “There are no casualties of artists who performed twice in other cities, this is a Los Angeles show not a three-hour event, just like in other cities, it is necessary to cut a portion, mainly covering the entire third episode of the song. This could be a disappointment for Angelenos, who sneaked a peek at the list of eligibles at City Hall and elsewhere. But in these close-up situations, in its own words, two hours feels like the right amount of a full meal. Once you have obtained the "River of Love", the "Kill Switch", and especially the "Tight Close" (Burnett threatens to break from his coffin), you are getting closer and closer.

When the show's second act begins with "Human from Earth," the moment the live album feels the live album, a ridiculous dark anthem about imperialist instincts, which appears in Wim Winders' "Until the Apocalypse" and '91 Burnett Solo. This song always feels impossible to be clever and arched, but here, with these players swingyou won't have reproduced in the past thirty years you might hear it. Choices like Bobby Neuwirth's song "Annabelle Lee" are closer to Burnett's recorded version, because the string band format was recorded for his '86-year Dot album. But, even on what you can fairly say he's right for the first time, none of these songs sound better. Fortunately, he will further document what the team can do together, and he will send Dennis Crouch back with Diana or anyone else. Currently, there are no more shows on the books, but it is a brilliant alchemy that needs to be moved on.

When it comes to interstellar travel, special attention must be paid to the extraordinary sounds that humans can coax from traditional instruments from the colin linden on Earth. At the concert, like last year's album "(I'm Going Over This Day" is a gentle highlight) is a gentle highlight, perhaps one of the best soft rock songs ever since Johnny Cash's initial heyday. But studio instruments make you think: What the hell is that sound? Because it sounds like Linden is playing some kind of electric tinta dance, not the tremolo guitar you might expect on tracks like this. It turns out that this is a Dobro from the 1930s, and some weathering makes it sound like other strange instruments that don't exist. But he won't have a weird and pleasing sound like his ears - he can deliver when the song requires some Louisiana sliding guitar, even if Mansfield makes the band feel bigger than when switching between a violin and a mandolin. Of course, Burnett's rhythmic acoustics are mysterious, subtle powers that power dozens of records, not just his, without the slightest attention.

Burnett is on the “Other Side” material in a different voice than his past. This applies literally, but spiritually, as the artist talks a lot about how he wants this batch of current material to be different from the tenors of the last few decades, and is more hopeful and open to what he describes as a “dystopian” than the attention he has taken in the past few decades. But Burnett talked to the audience in a real Raucanteur way for 10 minutes, and his view on government, business and society as nightmare and authoritarians lasted for 10 minutes. If he really overcomes this, he will definitely choose a fun time to do it. But anyway, the singer spent a lot of time talking about how horrible the world is, like an introduction to announcing that it is not a preface to his desire to concentrate his musical energy.

There is still a lot of darkness on the material on “The Other Side”, but it also has a real sweetness and can get him to finish the album – and the first half of this tour – a song that is as clever and tender as “Little Darling.” In the acoustically sloping underworld, there was almost a lot of loss and search, and this number climaxed, like Orpheus and Eurydice walking happily after dawn. If Burnett is now feeling good about things in these dim times, can we? At least late at night, we felt Affected.

T Bone Burnett List, McCabe, Santa Monica, May 8, 2025:

He's coming down
Come back (when leaving)
(I want to overcome this one day)
Wait for you
The pain of love
Win the game
Sometimes I want to know
Hawaiian Blue Songs
The first light of the day
Nothing is available
Forgot at that time
Little baby
Humans come from the earth
It's not too late
Annabelle Lee
Scarlet tide
Close it tightly
River of Love