Stephen Bruton News

Bone Burnett talks to The Daily Beast's Kim Masters about the late songwriter Stephen Bruton, whose wild life and soulful music influenced Crazy Heart .

It's an early sweep for the late Stephen Bruton and T-Bone Burnett, who have won awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the New York Online Critics and the Boston Society of Film Critics for best music/ score for "Crazy Heart." The film's lead Jeff Bridges, who plays alcoholic country singer Bad Blake, was named best actor by L.A.

Betty Soo kicks off an impressive lineup that includes Band of Heathens, Eliza Gilkyson, the Gourds and a Dec.

Artists playing this year's Austin Yam Jam fundraiser paid tribute to the late Stephen Bruton.

Fort Worth's Delbert McClinton - still claiming this burg as a primary influence though Lubbock-born and long since resettled into citizen-of-the-world status - cinches his mastery of music, Southern-fried and universally applied, on a generous new CD-album called Acquired Taste .

STEPHEN BRUTON: SPIRIT WORLD A little-known country outlaw, Bruton's guitar backed the likes of Kris Kristofferson, Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson.

There were only four people on stage at PNC Pavilion Saturday night for Three Girls and Their Buddy: Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin and Buddy Miller.

"We're creating an alternate world of country music," T Bone Burnett told the Chronicle last September in regard to his work with the late Stephen Bruton for the Robert Duvall-produced film Crazy Heart , which is slated for national release later this year.

"I've been crying all day and never thought I'd get through this show," Bonnie Raitt told an Austin audience Sunday night at the end of her Mother's Day performance there, according to a report about her show on Austin360.com. She was talking about the impact on her of the death on Saturday of Texas guitarist-songwriter-producer-actor Stephen ...

GG Allin & Tesco Vee "Throbblehead" dolls A belated shout for... Stephen Bruton , a real-life guitar hero who played with everyone from Kris Kristofferson to Elvis Costello , died Saturday [May 9th] in Los Angeles.

Rick Koster has covered music, books and dining for The Day , and is a regular columnist.

Famed superharpist James Cotton settles into Austin. Keywords for this story CALENDAR TODAY Javier Chaparro BLOGS FORUMS Sticks and Stones and Fair and Balanced? A Trip to Bountiful Bakery and Cafe J.J. Abrams, Notorious Rug-Puller-Outter ARCHIVES More from May 22, 2009 Browse the Archives by May 15, 2009 Mourning the loss of two Austin music ...

Never got to work as extensively as I'd have liked with Stephen Bruton, but a lengthy friendship with his family has yielded bountiful experience beyond the too-brief occasional get-togethers. Stephen's brother, T. Sumter Bruton III, and I have sustained a music-making partnership since the earlier 1990s - the 1980s, if one counts the informal ...