This two-time Grammy nominee’s career has taken Cidny from singing back-up on tour with Elton John, working with Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart, and singing three lead vocals on the “Grease” movie soundtrack to having nine critically acclaimed solo albums, including the award winning Somewhere Between Heaven and Earth. Cid’s friends on the albums include friends Bonnie Raitt, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Bryan Adams, Emmylou Harris, Delbert McClinton, and Sir Elton John himself. Cidny has also co-written many Country songs in Nashville, including Radney Foster’s hit “Hammer and Nails”. Since 2007, Cidny has been one-third of “super-group”, The Refugees with Wendy Waldman and Deborah Holland. In 2011, Cidny made the difficult and daunting decision to start transitioning from female to male, from Cindy to Cidny. He has written and has been performing his one-person theatrical show Somewhere Between: Not An Ordinary Life all over the U.S. An award-winning documentary short about his life called The Gender Line screened at major film festivals around the world from 2019-2022. Cid will be releasing his first album as “Cidny Bullens” Little Pieces in the fall of 2023. Cid’s memoir, TransElectric: My Life as a Cosmic Rock Star, with foreword by Sir Elton John was released on June 6, 2023, and is now available for purchase at all major bookstore sites.
T-Bone Burnett is a musical genius and everything he does is worth exploring. The sharply moralistic social and spiritual observations of his earlier work return in songs like “The Wild Truth” and “Euromad”. Songs ranging from the rockabilly bop of “Dance Dance Dance” to the grandly orchestrated tango of “The Image” (complete with verses sung in French by ex-Pogue bass player Cait O’Riordan, in Spanish by Ruben Blades and in Russian by someone named Ludmilla). “Purple Heart” (features the unmistakable background wails from U2’s Bono Hewson). The ‘Talking Animals’ is a strong, inspired record. Bono, Peter Case, and Tonio K. each co-write with Burnett, as well as lending support on vocals.
Grammy-and Oscar-winner T Bone Burnett, Jay Bellerose (percussionist) and Keefus Ciancia (artist, composer, producer and musician) present their second installment of The Invisible Light trilogy The Invisible Light is a fusion of trance, electronic, folk, tribal and global music.