Billy Butler
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Billy Butler
Legends Of Acid Jazz
CD $18.98 $13.98
RELEASE DATE: 27 Mar 1998
PRCD-24197-2
GENRE: JAZZ
Billy Butler (1924-91) was one of the most influential guitar players in the history of African-American music. What R&B picker worth his salt hasn’t committed to memory Butler’s brilliantly sculpted solo from the 1956 Bill Doggett smash “Honky Tonk”? The Philadelphia-born guitarist spent most of his career as a studio musician, contributing to countless R&B, blues, and soul-jazz sessions, seldom stepping out on his own. He did, however, cut four marvelous albu… MORE
