After winning an Academy Award for Best Actor, Jeff Bridges has moved on to sign a recording deal with Blue Note Records. His first record is in collaboration with long-time friend T-Bone Burnett and will be released in late summer.

As Bridges told the Santa Barbara Independent on his friendship with Burnett, “It’s a relationship that’s really inflamed my music.”After meeting over 30 years ago, the pair have finally come together to release a sure to be impression album.

Burnett has compiled many notable musicians, including Keefus Ciancia, Mark Ribot, Dennis Crouch, and Jay Bellerose, and guest vocalists Rosanne Cash, Sam Phillips, and Benji Hughes, to make appearances on the album.