View basket “Rough And Ready” has been added to your basket. Direct To Disc Wild Child Butler SKU: AAPO004 Barcode: AAPO004 18.00 £18.00 Genre: Blues Label: APO Records Released Date: 17th August 2015 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info From all accounts, George Butler came by his nickname Wild Child honestly. On Sundays, some of the older ladies would come to the shack where he lived to visit his mother. Even as a toddler, little George would grab their legs and tug their skirts. The ladies would tell his mother that she had to “do something about that wild child,” and the name stuck. Fortunately, he found time between the youthful shenanigans to learn some harp basics at age 12. He was gigging professionally as a bandleader by the late 1950s, but the harpist didn’t have much luck in the recording wars until he moved to Chicago in 1966 and signed with Shreveport, La., based Jewel Records. Wild Child’s resume is top notch. He has toured with Jimmy Rogers, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Cousin Joe and Roosevelt Sykes. His biggest influence is John Lee Sonny Boy Williamson and yet his sound is all his own. A prolific songwriter, Wild Child Butler performs mostly original compositions. George Butler is one of the most stylistically interesting and underrated blues performers in the business today. In this, an era when Blues is so frequently fused with rock, soul and other more commercially viable music forms, Wild Child stands his artistic ground. Wild Child still plays and sings his blues in exactly the same authentic style that he developed and learned from his rural Alabama sharecropping mentors more than 40 years ago. When asked if he would change his style to be more commercially successful, Wild Child’s didn’t hesitate. “No I would not! Record companies have asked me to do that before. I wouldn’t do it then, and I wouldn’t do it now, just to sell more records. The way I do my blues, that’s me! The blues isn’t just something that I do, it’s something that I am.” George is polite but firm with his audiences. In fact, when you meet George Butler, one finds him to be a pleasant, highly personable man with a ready smile as big as an Alabama cotton field, and in no way keeping with the image conjured up by the name Wild Child. He was asked “Why in spite of all the hard times and bad luck, do you still keep going?” He replied with an audible grin, “The blues is the facts of life, the truth, and the blues is what I’m about.” Indifferent agents, unethical record companies, insensitive audiences and the tough life on the road have not squelched the blues fire in Wild Child Butler. The swamp-harp king is one authentic original folk blues artist who can, in his own words, “Sho’ ’nuff make the blues come down.” Side A is Wild Child and his electric band. Side B is acoustic with Jimmy D. Lane accompanying on guitar. 6 songs. Artist Wild Child Butler Genre Blues Label APO Records Buying Options 180g 1LP Format 180g , 1LP Condition New Country United States of America Track Listings 1. Weak In The Knees 2. Treat Me Like I Treat You 3. Forty Year Old Woman 4. Anyone Can Say They Love You 5. Can you Use A Man? 6. 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