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The John Butler Trio
The John Butler Trio were an Australian Folk music, roots-Rock music, rock band led by guitarist and vocalist John Butler (musician), John Butler, an Australasian Performing Right Association, APRA and ARIA-award-winning musician. They formed in Fremantle in 1998 with Jason McGann on drums, Gavin Shoesmith on bass and John Butler (musician), John Butler on vocals. By 2009, the trio consisted of Butler with Byron Luiters on bass and Nicky Bomba on drums and percussion, the latter being replaced by Grant Gerathy in 2013. After both Luiters and Gerathy exited the trio in early 2019, bassist OJ Newcomb and drummer Terepai Richmond (also of The Whitlams) joined the band, accompanied by touring musician Elana Stone on keyboards, percussion and backing vocals. The band's second studio album, ''Three (The John Butler Trio album), Three'' (2001) reached the top 30 in the Australian album charts and achieved platinum sales. The band's subsequent studio albums: ''Sunrise Over Sea'' (2004); ' ...
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Sunrise Over Sea
''Sunrise Over Sea'' is the third studio album by Australian band the John Butler Trio. It was released in March 2004. Conception and production In late 2003, John Butler entered Woodstock Studios in Melbourne, which is owned by Joe Camilleri, the leader of Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons and the Black Sorrows. He had a new band consisting of percussionist Nicky Bomba and upright-bass player Shannon Birchall. This would be Bomba's only recording with the Trio (having returned to Bomba (band), his own reggae band) until April Uprising (album), ''April Uprising'' (2010) The sound engineer for this production was Robin Mai. John Butler told the Australian edition of ''Rolling Stone'' published in April 2004 that he wanted greater freedom to pursue his vision. "Essentially what I learnt out of this process was, more so than ever, I'm the keeper of the music. I have the intuition and the foresight to pick the right players to my music. I've learned it's not always about having the same pl ...
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John Butler (musician)
John Charles Wiltshire-Butler (born 1 April 1975), professionally known as John Butler, is an American-Australian singer, songwriter, and music producer. He is best known for his time as the eponymous frontman of the John Butler Trio, a roots and jam band that formed in Perth Fremantle, Western Australia in 1998. The John Butler Trio recorded five studio albums, including three that reached number one on the Australian charts: ''Sunrise Over Sea'', ''Grand National'' and '' 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 Jarrah. He is also the co-founder of The JB Seed, a grant program that seeks to improve artistic dive ...
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Melbourne Ska Orchestra
Melbourne Ska Orchestra are an ARIA Award-winning Australian ska band formed in 2003 in Melbourne. The group has up to 34 members, and is led by bandleader Nicky Bomba, formerly of the John Butler Trio. The band are signed to FOUR FOUR, an imprint of ABC Music. Background The Melbourne Ska Orchestra was created by musician Nicky Bomba and radio presenter Mohair Slim. The band's inaugural performance was on 31 May 2003 to a sold out crowd at The Esplanade Hotel's Gershwin Room, in St Kilda, Victoria , St Kilda. The eponymous ''Melbourne Ska Orchestra'' album was released to rave reviews in 2013 and picked up two ARIA nominations that year. The band have toured extensively,, including festival appearances at Byron Bay Bluesfest, Bluesfest, Golden Plains Festival, Golden Plains, Vivid Sydney, Vivid, Caloundra, Queenscliff Music Festival, Queenscliff, and AWME. In addition to their highly visible presence on the Australian touring circuit, the band have built an impressive, e ...
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April Uprising (album)
''April Uprising'' is the fifth studio album by Australian roots band the John Butler Trio. The album was recorded from late 2009-early 2010 in Fremantle, Australia. The album's name comes from Butler's appearance on the television documentary series, ''Who Do You Think You Are'', where he journeyed to Bulgaria to find information about his ancestors. The 1876 April Uprising was an important event in Bulgarian history. The first single from the album was "One Way Road", which was accompanied by a music video, and was released on 4 December 2009. The second single was "Close To You", also with a video, on 11 March 2010. History The album was recorded in Fremantle, Australia, with the band's new line-up, consisting of drummer and Butler's brother-in-law Nicky Bomba and bassist Byron Luiters. Bomba has been in the band's line-up before, and was the band's drummer for the album ''Sunrise Over Sea''. The band recorded 22 tracks at Fremantle, then cut them down to 15 as the track li ...
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Grand National (album)
''Grand National'' is the fourth album by the John Butler Trio. Somewhere between 22 and 25 songs were considered for this album, some created during or before ''Sunrise Over Sea''. At the J Awards of 2007, the album was nominated for Australian Album of the Year. The album reached number one on the ARIA Albums Chart and the Billboard Heatseekers chart in the US, and as of 10 March 2008 it has reached triple Platinum Status (210,000+ copies sold). Grand National was the 7th highest selling album in Australia in 2007, remaining in the ARIA top 20 album charts for over nine months. The title of the album is derived from the antique dobro resophonic guitar that Butler inherited from his grandfather. In the 1920s the Dobro and National were competitors in the development of resonator or resophonic guitars, in 1934 they merged to form the National-Dobro Corporation, and hence the name of the album. Track listing All music and lyrics written and arranged by John Butler. ''The fo ...
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Three (The John Butler Trio Album)
''Three'' is the second studio album of Australian jam band The John Butler Trio. All the music and lyrics were written and arranged by John Butler except Earthbound Child, which Ozzie Rea co-wrote. The album was recorded, engineered and mixed by Shaun O'Callaghan at Studio Couch, North Fremantle, Western Australia. Robin Mai, Nicky Bomba, and Joe Camilleri mastered it at Woodstock Studios. The John Butler Trio and Shaun O'Callaghan produced the album. John Butler designed the cover concept with Matt and Iowana at Insomnia Design. There were guest appearances by: *Paul Boon - didgeridoo *George Rrurrambu - intro vocals on "Money" *Rosie Johnstone, David Broadfoot & Brenda Fost - backing vocals In 2001, ''Three'' won the ARIA Award for Best Independent Release. In the United States, it was released on ATO Records, with a few more tracks than the Australian CD - partly because it was the first John Butler Trio The John Butler Trio were an Australian Folk music, roots-Rock mus ...
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Elana Stone
Elana Stone is an Australian singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and bandleader. Her debut solo album, ''In the Garden of Wild Things'', was released in 2005 on the Jazzgroove label. Its follow-up, ''Your Anniversary'', was released in 2009, while her third and fourth albums (''Kintsugi'' and ''Married To The Sound'') were released independently in 2015 and 2024, respectively. She was also a member of the ARIA award–winning folk quartet All Our Exes Live in Texas, in which she provided vocals and played the accordion. Outside of her solo career and her work with All Our Exes Live in Texas, Stone has worked with The Tango Saloon, and has toured with The Cat Empire, Bluejuice, Jackson Jackson, Tripod and the John Butler Trio. She is currently a backing vocalist and keyboardist in the touring band for Missy Higgins. Early life and education Elana Stone is the elder daughter of Harry Stone, an architect, and Judy Stone, a palliative care nurse. She grew up in Sydney with ...
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The Whitlams
The Whitlams are an Australian Indie rock band formed in late 1992. The original line-up was Tim Freedman on keyboards and lead vocals, Andy Lewis on double bass and Stevie Plunder on guitar and lead vocals. Other than mainstay Freedman, the line-up has changed numerous times. From 2001 to 2022, he was joined by Warwick Hornby on bass guitar, Jak Housden on guitar and Terepai Richmond on drums – forming the band's longest-lasting and best-known line-up. Four of their studio albums have reached the ARIA Albums Chart top 20: '' Eternal Nightcap'' (September 1997, No. 14), '' Love This City'' (November 1999, No. 3), '' Torch the Moon'' (July 2002, No. 1) and '' Little Cloud'' (March 2006, No. 4). Their highest charting singles are " Blow Up the Pokies" (May 2000) and " Fall for You" (June 2002) – both reached number 21. The group's single, " No Aphrodisiac" was listed at number one on the Triple J Hottest 100, 1997 by listeners of natio ...
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ARIA
In music, an aria (, ; : , ; ''arias'' in common usage; diminutive form: arietta, ; : ariette; in English simply air (music), air) is a self-contained piece for one voice, with or without instrument (music), instrumental or orchestral accompaniment, normally part of a larger work. The typical context for arias is opera, but vocal arias also feature in oratorios and cantatas, or they can be stand-alone concert arias. The term was originally used to refer to any expressive melody, usually, but not always, performed by a singer. Etymology The Italian term ''aria'', which derives from the Greek ἀήρ and Latin ''aer'' (air), first appeared in relation to music in the 14th century when it simply signified a manner or style of singing or playing. By the end of the 16th century, the term 'aria' refers to an instrumental form (cf. Santino Garsi da Parma lute works, ('Aria del Gran Duca'). By the early 16th century, it was in common use as meaning a simple setting of strophe, strophi ...
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Australasian Performing Right Association
APRA AMCOS consists of Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS), both copyright management organisations or copyright collectives which jointly represent over 100,000 songwriters, composers and music publisher (popular music), music publishers in Australia and New Zealand. The two organisations work together to license public performances and administer performance, communication and reproduction rights on behalf of their members, who are creators of musical works, aiming to ensure fair payments to members and to defend their rights under the ''Copyright law of Australia#Copyright Act 1968, Australian Copyright Act (1968)''. APRA, which formed in 1926, represents songwriters, composers, and Music publisher (popular music), music publishers, providing businesses with a range of licences to use copyrighted music. This covers music that is communicated or performed publicly including on radio, television, online, ...
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Rock Music
Rock is a Music genre, genre of popular music that originated in the United States as "rock and roll" in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of styles from the mid-1960s, primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom. It has its roots in rock and roll, a style that drew from the black musical genres of blues and rhythm and blues, as well as from country music. Rock also drew strongly from genres such as electric blues and folk music, folk, and incorporated influences from jazz and other styles. Rock is typically centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drum kit, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a Time signature, time signature and using a verse–chorus form; however, the genre has become extremely diverse. Like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political. Rock was the most p ...
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Folk Music
Folk music is a music genre that includes #Traditional folk music, traditional folk music and the Contemporary folk music, contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, music that is played on traditional instruments, music about cultural or national identity, music that changes between generations (folk process), music associated with a people's folklore, or music performed by Convention (norm), custom over a long period of time. It has been contrasted with popular music, commercial and art music, classical styles. The term originated in the 19th century, but folk music extends beyond that. Starting in the mid-20th century, a new form of popular folk music evolved from traditional folk music. This process and period is called the (second) folk revival and reached a zenith ...
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