June 20, 2008
He's a legendary music producer who's crafted records by with KD Lang, Counting Crows, and Emmylou Harris; his first gig was playing guitar for Bob Dylan. But Burnett's latest record, Tooth of Crime, is one of his own. He tells Kurt what went into making the album, based on a Sam Shepard play about a post-apocalyptic battle of the bands.
I am an artist at heart and soul. As a child I spent hours in my bedroom drawing young women in fashions I created. i wanted to be a fashion designer but, my mom had no money to send me to school. I work as a medical records coder. It pays the bills but it nithing at all from me as far as using my artisitic imagination.
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