Billy Butler
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.
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A To The K (Original Mix)
House - Erschienen bei Smashing Trax Records am 16.02.2019
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Enter At Your Own Risk
Dance - Erschienen bei Bunshin Records am 22.09.2022
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Hot Boy (Original Mix)
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei Mole Music am 16.04.2018
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Link Up (Original Mix)
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei Pure Beats Records am 26.10.2018
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Murder Track
House - Erschienen bei Bumpin Underground Records am 18.03.2022
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Game Changer
House - Erschienen bei Pure Beats Records am 30.03.2018
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Troubled Times
Dance - Erschienen bei Bunshin Records am 22.09.2022
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He's My Rock (feat. Leonard Green)
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei JettMusic LLC am 17.06.2022
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Do You Feel It (Original Mix)
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei Lisztomania Records am 25.01.2018
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Screwface (Original Mix)
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei Bob's Your Uncle Records am 05.02.2021
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Always Be (Original Mix)
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei Mas Profundo Muzica am 31.07.2015
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I Think You Like It
Dance - Erschienen bei Bunshin Records am 06.01.2024
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Love
Derrick da House, Billy Butler
House - Erschienen bei Floppy Disks am 02.04.2023
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