Solo Career
In 1980, Burnett released his first post-Alpha Band solo album, Truth Decay, produced by Reggie Fisher, on the Takoma Records label. Truth Decay was a roots rock album described by the Rolling Stone Record Guide as "mystic Christian blues".
In 1982, his Trap Door EP, (also produced by Reggie Fisher) and released on the Warner Brothers label, yielded the FM radio hit "I Wish You Could Have Seen Her Dance". Burnett toured after the release of Trap Door, opening several dates for The Who, leading a band that featured Mick Ronson on guitar.
His 1983 album Proof Through the Night, whose song "When the Night Falls" got some FM airplay, and his 1987 album The Talking Animals were more in the vein of 1980s new wave music, while his self-titled 1986 album was an album of acoustic country music. His 1992 album The Criminal Under My Own Hat, tended toward adult album alternative music. All were critically acclaimed but not big sellers commercially.
Proof Through the Night was reissued by Rhino Records' Handmade Music in a limited-edition of 5,000 on May 29, 2007, in an expanded version. The double CD also included the EPs Trap Door and Behind the Trap Door.
In 2006, Burnett released two albums. The True False Identity was his first album of new songs since 1992, and Twenty Twenty – The Essential T-Bone Burnett was a 40-song career retrospective.
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