T Bone Burnett shook up the Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit yesterday by boldly declaring at the beginning of his segment:  “The future of music is…” wait for it, here it comes…”analog”.

While much of the conference focused on digitization as slayer or savior, and the Internet as love child of the universe and musical cash register, T Bone turned the conversation towards the quality of recorded music.  Portions of the audience seemed stunned by some of T Bone’s thoughts, here are a few highlights: