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Infobox musical artist| name = John C Butler| image = John Butler Cambridge.jpg| alt = A thirty-one year-old man is shown in upper-body shot and slightly on his right profile. He is leaning forwards with his left hand grasping a microphone as he sings into it. His right arm is raised above his head and shows his long fingernails. Both fore-arms show a similar tattoo of three encircling lines. He wears an ear-ring in his right lobe, a necklace of red and blue-green beads and a green T-shirt. He is bearded and the start of his dreadlocks is visible.| caption = John Butler, Cambridge Folk Festival , July 2006| image_size =| landscape = yes| background = solo_singer| birth_name = John Charles Wiltshire-Butler| alias =| birth_date = birth date and age|df=yes|1975|4|1| birth_place = Torrance, California , United States| death_date =| death_place =| origin = Fremantle, Western Australia , Australia| instrument = Singing|Vocals , guitars ( electric guitar|electric , twelve-string guitar|twelve-string , lap steel guitar|lap steel ), harmonica , didgeridoo , banjo , stomp box , ukulele | genre = Bluegrass music|Bluegrass , alternative rock , jam band Celtic, roots, funk rock | occupation = Musician , songwriter, record label owner, record producer|producer | years_active = 1996–present| label = Waterfront Records|Waterfront , Jarrah Records|Jarrah | associated_acts = The John Butler Trio , The Waifs , Brave and the Bird| website =| notable_instruments = 1930s dobro , Maton twelve-string guitar John Charles Wiltshire-Butler (born 1 April 1975) or John Charles Butler is an Australian American musician, songwriter, record label owner and producer. He is the frontman|front man for the John Butler Trio , a Folk music|roots and jam band , which formed in Fremantle, Western Australia in 1998. He currently resides in Marradong, Western Australia .
The John Butler Trio has recorded five studio albums including three which have reached number-one on the Australian charts: Sunrise Over Sea , Grand National (album)|Grand National and April Uprising (album)|April Uprising . His recordings and live performances have met with critical praise and have garnered awards from the Australian Performing Right Association and Australian Recording Industry Association .
Butler was born in the United States and moved to Australia at an early age. He began playing the guitar at the age of sixteen. In 2002 Butler, along with several partners, formed their own record label. He is also the co-founder of a grant program that seeks to improve artistic diversity in his home country of Australia where he resides with his wife and children.
Early life and education
John Charles Wiltshire-Butler (or John Charles Butler) was born on 1 April 1975 in Torrance, California , United States. #noteFoot01a|A His Australian father, Darryl Wiltshire-Butler, and American mother, Barbara ( Married and maiden names| née Butler – unrelated), divorced and Butler migrated to Western Australia with his father, brother and sister in January 1986. He was named after his paternal grandfather, John Wiltshire-Butler, a forestry worker who died fighting a bushfire in Nannup, Western Australia|Nannup . He moved to the small town of Pinjarra, Western Australia|Pinjarra when he was eleven, and he attended the local primary and secondary schools.
Butler's genealogy was investigated on an episode of SBS Television's series, Who Do You Think You Are? (Australian TV series)|Who Do You Think You Are? , which aired on 1 November 2009. The show traced his family history from his deceased grandfather – reading war diaries – through to ancestors in Bulgaria and the events of the 1876 April Uprising .
Butler began playing guitar at the age of sixteen after his grandmother gave him a 1930s dobro belonging to his deceased grandfather. In 1996, Butler attended Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia|Perth and enrolled in an art teaching course but abandoned his studies to pursue a career in music.
Career
John Butler was a busking|busker on the streets of Fremantle playing his own compositions. In mid-1996, he released a self-recorded cassette of his instrumentals, Searching for Heritage , which sold 3,000 copies. He played different styles of music including "Indian, Celtic, bluegrass and folk". Butler had his first paid performance in 1997 at the Seaview Hotel in Fremantle. In 1998, North Fremantle, Mojos club owner, Phil Stevens, hired Butler as a regular performer. Stevens became his manager and later his business partner.
John Butler Trio
main|John Butler TrioButler was joined by drummer, Jason McCann (Mojos sound engineer) and bass player Gavin Shoesmith to form the John Butler Trio and recorded the John Butler (album)|John Butler album which was released on Waterfront Records in December 1998. At various times the members of the John Butler Trio included drummers Michael Barker (drummer)|Michael Barker (2003–2009) and Nicky Bomba , bass players Rory Quirk (2001–2002), Andrew Fry (April 2002-November 2002), Shannon Birchall (2002–2009) and Byron Luiters. The band's musical style was influenced by Black Sabbath , Fleetwood Mac and Jeff Lang . The band toured throughout Western Australia in 1999. Citation needed|date=March 2011 The band's second album, Three (The John Butler Trio album)|Three , was produced by Butler and Shaun O'Callaghan. It was released and distributed on Waterfront Records in April 2001. It featured the tracks "Take" and "Betterman", which both received radio airplay on the Australian alternative youth radio station Triple J and rated in its annual Top& nbsp;100. The band appeared at the Big Day Out concert series and the Woodford Folk Festival.
In July 2002, Jarrah Records was created by Butler, members of fellow Western Australian act The Waifs and their common manager, Stevens. Being a partner in a record label allowed Butler to maximise artistic control of his recordings.
The song " Zebra (song)|Zebra " was released as a single in December 2003 and received mainstream radio airplay and reached the top& nbsp;30 on the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) ARIA Charts|Singles Chart . It was selected as 'Song of the Year' at the 2004 APRA Awards. The album, Sunrise Over Sea , was released in March 2004 and peaked at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart. It was the first independently released and distributed album to debut at No. 1 and Butler received the ARIA 'Best Male Artist' award that same year.
In September 2006, John Butler Trio released a promotional studio diary of the recording progress of their next album, Grand National (album)|Grand National , which was released in March 2007 and peaked at No.& nbsp;1. In December 2006, Funky Tonight (EP) was released and included tracks from their live shows, such as "Daniella", "Fire in the Sky", and " Funky Tonight ". The band performed at the Melbourne entertainment hub, Federation Square at Easter 2007. The one& nbsp;off performance featured musicians who had collaborated on Grand National , including Vika and Linda|Vika and Linda Bull , Jex Saarhelart and Nicky Bomba. The performance was telecast on Triple j tv|JTV and was released on DVD in November.
On 29 June, Butler gave a live solo performance at Twist and Shout Records in Denver, Colorado , which was released in January 2008 as an eight track EP, One Small Step (album)|One Small Step , with Australian dollar|AUD $1 from each record sold being donated to Oxfam 's "Close the Gap" campaign. One Small Step was Butler's first official solo release. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2007 , Butler performed "Funky Tonight" in a collaboration with fellow Australian musician Keith Urban . Radio station, Triple J 's listeners voted Grand National their favourite album for 2007.
In July 2009, Butler undertook a solo overseas tour commencing in North America, where he played at the Montreal Jazz Festival , the Rothbury Music Festival in Michigan and The Mile High Music Festival in Denver . In North America he sold out headline shows in Toronto and Los Angeles. In Europe, Butler played at the Folies Bergère in Paris and London's Union Chapel, Islington|Union Chapel . He also performed at Cannes , Amsterdam and Antwerp .
Upon his return in August, he took part in the Cannot Buy My Soul concert at the Queensland Music Festival . Butler performed alongside other local musicians (including Paul Kelly (musician)|Paul Kelly , Missy Higgins , Troy Cassar-Daley , Clare Bowditch , Tex Perkins and Bernard Fanning ) reinterpreting the catalogue of indigenous Australian musician Kev Carmody . His track, "Thou Shalt Not Steal", was released on the Cannot Buy My Soul|compilation album , and later was featured on the iTunes Deluxe album of Grand National (album)|Grand National . Butler participated at the Garma Festival of Traditional Cultures located in Northeast Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory .
On 21 October, Butler featured on SBS One|SBS Television's documentary called Destination Australia – Bridge Between Two Worlds performing to refugee children in a class at Perth's Highgate Primary School. Butler discovery of his Bulgarian ancestors involvement in the April Uprising provided the title for the trio's next No.& nbsp;1 album, April Uprising (album)|April Uprising , issued in March 2010. Butler performed " How to Make Gravy " and the Kev Carmody / Paul Kelly (musician)|Paul Kelly song " From Little Things Big Things Grow " (with Carmody, Kelly, Missy Higgins and Dan Sultan ) at the Kelly tribute concerts staged by Triple J in mid-November 2009, which was released as the 2010 live album Before Too Long .
On 19 February 2011, Butler performed for the first time with his wife Danielle, also known as Mama Kin, under the moniker Brave and the Bird, at the Gimme Shelter event (an annual fundraiser for the homeless) held at the Fremantle Arts Centre .
Equipment and technique
Butler plays harmonica, didgeridoo , drums, lap-steel, banjo and amplified acoustic guitars and removes the higher octave G string on his 12-string guitar. Butler prefers the Maton 12-string guitar and often uses a Seymour Duncan SA-6 Mag Mic pickup with a Marshall Amplification JMP Super Lead Head and a Marshall 4×12 cabinet. He uses a variety of electronic effects including distortion, reverb / delay and wah-wah pedal to achieve his unique sound. Butler uses long, pointed acrylic fingernails for finger picking .
Personal life
John Butler is married to Danielle Caruana, an Australian musician and vocalist who performs under the name of Mama Kin. They have two children, a daughter named Banja, and a son named Jahli.
After wearing dreadlocks for 13 years, Butler cut them off in early 2008. In an interview with Herald Sun in 2008 Butler acknowledged that he had been referred to as the "million dollar hippie" in various articles and around his hometown in Australia. The nickname refers to his inclusion on the Business Review Weekly ' (BRW's) list of 50 richest entertainers in 2004 with reported earnings of $2.4 million.
Charities and causes
John Butler is an advocate of peace, environmental protection, and global harmony. He has supported The Wilderness Society (Australia)|The Wilderness Society and the Save Ningaloo Reef campaign.
In 2005, Butler and Caruana co-founded the JB Seed grant program – renamed as The Seed in 2010 – to support artistic expression and encourage the "social, cultural and artistic diversity in Australian society". The couple contributed $80,000 to establish the project. Other supporters include Paul Kelly, Correne Wilkie (Manager, The Cat Empire ), Paul and Michelle Gilding (Ecoscorp), Maureen Ritchie, Missy Higgins , John Watson (Eleven Music), John Woodruff (JWM Productions), Sebastian Chase ( MGM Distribution ), Philip Stevens (Jarrah Records), The Waifs and Blue King Brown .
John Butler is one of the largest supporters in the "Save The Kimberley" campaign in Australia.
Awards and nominations
APRA Awards
The APRA Awards are presented annually from 1982 by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA).
awards table|- | APRA Awards of 2004|2004 || " Zebra (song)|Zebra " (John Butler) – The John Butler Trio || Song of the Year || won|- |rowspan="2"| APRA Awards of 2006|2006 || " Something's Gotta Give (The John Butler Trio song)|Something's Gotta Give " (John Butler) – The John Butler Trio || Most Performed Blues & Roots Work || won|- | " What You Want " (John Butler) – The John Butler Trio || Most Performed Blues & Roots Work || nom|- |rowspan="3"| APRA Awards of 2008|2008 || " Better Than " (John Butler) – The John Butler Trio || Song of the Year || nom|- | " Funky Tonight " (John Butler) – The John Butler Trio || Blues & Roots Work of the Year || nom|- | " Good Excuse " (John Butler) – The John Butler Trio || Blues & Roots Work of the Year || won end
ARIA Awards
The ARIA Music Awards are presented annually from 1987 by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). The John Butler Trio have won five awards from twenty-one nominations (see John Butler Trio#ARIA Awards|John Butler Trio awards ). Butler has won a further ARIA award for 'Best Male Artist' in ARIA Music Awards of 2004|2004 from six nominations in that category.
awards table|- || ARIA Music Awards of 2001|2001 || Three (The John Butler Trio album)|Three || Best Male Artist || nom|- | | ARIA Music Awards of 2003|2003 || Living 2001-2002 || Best Male Artist || nom|- || ARIA Music Awards of 2004|2004 || Sunrise Over Sea || Best Male Artist || won|- || ARIA Music Awards of 2005|2005 || " Something's Gotta Give (The John Butler Trio song)|Somethings Gotta Give " || Best Male Artist || nom|- || ARIA Music Awards of 2007|2007 || Grand National (album)|Grand National || Best Male Artist|| nom|- || ARIA Music Awards of 2010|2010 || April Uprising (album) |April Uprising || Best Male Artist || nom end
Live At Twist & Shout Records|Twist & Shout (2007)
One Small Step (album)|One Small Step (2007) Australian release of Live At Twist & Shout
Notes
> #nbFoot01a|^ For full name as John Charles Wiltshire-Butler see Australasian Performing Rights Association (APRA) search result for song writer and performer of "Something's Gotta Give".
For full name as John Charles Butler see APRA search result for song writer and performer of "All My Honey".
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External links
http://www.johnbutlertrio.com/ Official Site
http://www.myspace.com/johnbutlertrio Official MySpace page
http://www.thejbseed.com JB Seed Grants Project
Use dmy dates|date=March 2011 ARIA Award for Best Male Artist 2000s Persondata | NAME =Butler, John | ALTERNATIVE NAMES =Wiltshire-Butler, John Charles; Butler, John Charles | SHORT DESCRIPTION = Australian musician | DATE OF BIRTH =1 April 1975 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Torrance, California, United States of America | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Butler, John Category:1975 births Category:Living people Category:ARIA Award winners Category:Australian buskers Category:Australian guitarists Category:Australian male singers Category:Australian rock guitarists Category:Australian singer-songwriters Category:Australian people of American descent Category:Curtin University alumni Category:People from Torrance, California Category:People from Fremantle Category:Slide guitarists Category:Musicians from Western Australia Category:American male singers Category:Australian multi-instrumentalists Category:Australian indie pop musicians Category:Australian indie rock musicians
