Альбомы исполнителя
Night Life
2001 · альбом
Legends Of Acid Jazz
1998 · альбом
Sugar Candy Lady
1977 · альбом
Rewind Selecta
2023 · сингл
If You Don'tLike It
2023 · сингл
Mystery
2022 · сингл
Murder Track
2022 · сингл
Ease Your Mind
2022 · сингл
Brunswick Essentials
2021 · альбом
Gay Bride of Frankenstein (Workshop Soundtrack)
2021 · альбом
Screwface
2021 · Мини-альбом
Run for Cover
2019 · сингл
Sucker
2019 · сингл
The Easy Way Out
2017 · сингл
The Rhyme
2013 · сингл
Right Track
1966 · альбом
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Биография
A tasty soul-jazz and blues guitarist, Billy Butler adroitly mixed a Charlie Christian approach with '50s R&B grooves and backbeats. He coaxed a warm, fat tone from his hollow-bodied electric guitar, and provided deceptively simple solos and fills that became staples of the R&B guitar vocabulary. Bill Doggett's "Honky Tonk," featuring Butler, is perhaps the prototype R&B guitar instrumental. "Ram-Bunk-Shush" and "Big Boy" are other highlights of his tenure with Doggett. He began playing with doo wop/R&B group the Harlemaires in the late '40s, then led combos until 1952, when he joined Doc Bagby's trio. Butler co-wrote "Honky Tonk" while playing with Doggett from 1954 to 1961. He also recorded with King Curtis, Dinah Washington, Panama Francis, Johnny Hodges, Jimmy Smith, and David "Fathead" Newman in the '60s. Butler worked in Broadway pit bands beginning in the late '60s, but found time for recording sessions with Houston Person and Norris Turney in the late '60s and '70s. He led his own band and recorded for Prestige in the late '60s and early '70s. Butler also recorded with Al Casey and Jackie Williams. He toured Europe frequently in the '70s and '80s, doing sessions there and in America. ~ Ron Wynn & Richard Lieberson, Rovi