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Jeff Bridges Signs with Blue Note Records

Posted by Kersty Boll on 04/21/2011
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Musician and actor Jeff Bridges has signed a recording deal with EMI’s Blue Note Records and will release his first album in late summer. Bridges won an Academy Award in 2009 for “Best Actor” as a grizzled former country music legend in "Crazy Heart."
 
Bridges has chosen to collaborate on his new record with 30-year friend, T-Bone Burnett. A multiple Grammy Award winning songwriter, musician and producer, Burnett is known for his work with Allison Krauss and Robert Plant, Elton John and Leon Russell and the Grammy-winning soundtracks to "O Brother, Where Are Thou?" and "Walk the Line."
 
Bridges and Burnett met more than 30 years ago when Kris Kristofferson introduced them during the filming of the 1980 motion picture Heaven’s Gate. The friendship has been an easy one to maintain as Burnett chose songs that appeared on "The Big Lebowski" soundtrack in 1998, which starred Bridges. Burnett also co-wrote many of the songs on the "Crazy Heart" soundtrack, which earned him a "Best Original Song" Oscar nod for "The Weary Kind."
 
Bridge’ upcoming album under Blue Note Records is "an organic extension and culmination of his personal, professional, and now musical friendship with Burnett."
 
"It’s a relationship that’s really inflamed my music," Bridges told the Santa Barbara Independent.
 
Bridges will appear on the May cover of Esquire Magazine’s music issue, which hits newsstands on April 26th. For updates on Bridges, visit http://jeffbridges.com.