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A treasured acting professional and blues musician, Jim Byrnes began his like with performing and music when he was still a little child. In university he found performing jobs easily before draft sent him to battle rather than to Hollywood. Byrnes held his dreams, and himself, alive, and came back …

Despite vital acclaim being a performer, the rootsy singer/songwriter T-Bone Burnett received his most significant renown being a manufacturer, helming recording periods for acts which range from Roy Orbison and Elvis Costello to Keeping track of Crows and Sam Phillips. Blessed Joseph Henry Burnett on January 14, 1948, in St. …