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| Born: Dec 15, 1925 in Philadelphia, PA | Avg.User Rating: 3 Ratings |
| Died: Mar 20, 1991 in Teaneck, NJ |
| Styles: Soul-Jazz |
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| Biography: 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 vocabularly. Bill ...Read full biography |
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Released: 1970 Label: Fantasy Inc. Critics' Rating:  Billy Butler is well known to guitarists only, as the co-author of the early R&B funked-up standard "Honky Tonk," with organist Bill Doggett. The two albums featured in this single disc two-fer reissue ...Read full review Released: 1969 Label: Prestige Critics' Rating:  In the 1960s, Billy Butler was not only one of the top guitarists in the soul-jazz field -- he was also a busy, in-demand session player who backed his share of R&B heavyweights. Butler, one of the countless ...Read full review
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