Artist's albums
Night Life
2001 · album
Legends Of Acid Jazz
1998 · album
Sugar Candy Lady
1977 · album
Rewind Selecta
2023 · single
If You Don'tLike It
2023 · single
Mystery
2022 · single
Murder Track
2022 · single
Ease Your Mind
2022 · single
Brunswick Essentials
2021 · album
Gay Bride of Frankenstein (Workshop Soundtrack)
2021 · album
Screwface
2021 · EP
Run for Cover
2019 · single
Sucker
2019 · single
The Easy Way Out
2017 · single
The Rhyme
2013 · single
Right Track
1966 · album
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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 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