Old Enough to Forget

I bought this on CD when this came out. Back in '86 this was a really strange album and for me, it was almost a country album (I didn't know what Americana was), and it fitted in right alongside all of the rock that was filling up my shelves. T Bone Burnett for whatever reason had a special place for me, he was his own genre. Going back to Trap Door and Truth Decay , I was expecting quirky, roots oriented music, but with this self titled effort Mr. Burnett took it up another level, stripping things down to the bare essentials. The album was recorded live to two track analog and two track digital June 24, 25, 26 and July 15, 1986. It is an amazing album, and when I found it on vinyl I figured, "Oh why not?" This was the first time I'd really been exposed to the stellar dobro and lap steel work of Jerry Douglas. It's really a shame that the instrumental version of "I Remember" isn't on the record, as to me it was the centrepiece of the album, and ...