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Paul Butler
12+ albums
bluesblues rock
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There is more than one artist with this name, including: 1) Paul Butler is a British blues guitarist and singer (and former member of Jellybread). 2) Paul Butler is an American musician from New Jersey. 3) Paul Butler (Paul J. Butler) is a multi-instrumentalist. 1) Paul Butler is a British blues guitarist and singer (and former member of Jellybread). He usually plays solo folk/acoustic stuff with a bluesy tinge. He has played and recorded with B.B.King, Lightnin’ Slim, Eddie Guitar Burns and Taj Mahal. However, as an electric blues guitarist, his earlier musical life represents an odyssey though the British Blues Boom years, and he was fortunate to play and record with several of its principal characters. He has shared stages/studios with Keef Hartley and Stan Webb, Ric Lee and Leo Lyons, Rick Hayward, Steve York, Miller Anderson, Andy Pyle, John Altman, Tony Ashton, Pete Gage, Laurence Garman and Duster Bennet, Bernie Marsden, Bob Daisley – and Elkie Brooks on one occasion, with a Keef Hartley Band line-up! He parked his guitar in 1982 after one album with Chicken Shack, “Roadies Concerto” (1981). Butler’s recording career began in 1964, when together with his first band, The Turnkeys, he provided the “beat group music” for a Jim O’Connolly film, ”The little ones” (released in 1965). Interestingly, the group’s founder member was London harmonica man, Tim Hill, who would later front a band involving Bill Smith, one of the drummers used on this album. It was after mee
