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T-Bone: Ignore The Internet
Oct, 15 2010
T-Bone Burnett, respected songwriter/musician and ten-time Grammy™-winning producer thinks the internet does musicians a disservice and suspects digital technologies are merely a “detour.”
Addressing the 10th Future of Music Coalition summit in Washington, D.C., Burnett stated “If I were just starting out today… I would have nothing to do with the internet... I would not advertise myself... I would not market myself. I would spend every minute of the day I could playing and listening to music.”
Perhaps best known for his production work on Robert Plant and Alison Krauss's Raising Sand, as well as a multitude of albums celebrating the music of Americana, Burnett sees his role as one of aural archivist. “The quality of the sound of recorded music has fallen off close to a hundred percent in the last twenty years,” he protests.
“The internet is… an amateur medium… At any rate, by any standards, [the internet] is a medium of extremely low quality, as exemplified by the unlistenable mp3 format. I would say that the internet has failed to deliver on its promise.”
But there’s hope: “The future of music is analog. Guitars are analog. Pianos are analog. Drums are analog. Music is analog. We are analog… I am fighting to make the world sound better.” Supporting Burnett’s assertions are proposed tiered pricing schemes for varied quality of MP3s, and a small resurgence in sales for vinyl records.
