Billy Butler

Billy Butler
Born: Dec 15, 1925 in Philadelphia, PA
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Died: Mar 20, 1991 in Teaneck, NJ
Styles: Soul-Jazz
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
Night Life
Released: 1970
Label: Fantasy Inc.
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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
This Is Billy Butler
Released: 1969
Label: Prestige
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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
More Billy Butler albums: Main Albums (7), Compilations (2)
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