Biography

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The Game Has Just Begun Description
“stunning, goose-pimple raising” – OffBEAT Magazine
“pure Louisiana Blues magic” – Jazztimes Magazine

Track Listing
1) The Game Has Just Begun (5:47)
2) This Is Where I Live (5:09)
3) Mac Daddy Henry (5:09)
4) Tie Me Down (3:48)
5) You Are My Sunshine (4:40)
6) Regeneration (3:38)
7) Great Balls Of Fire (3:35)
8) High Heeled Sneakers (5:04)
9) Fall Blues (5:46)
10) When You Listen With Your Eyes (3:42)
11) Riders On The Storm (5:55)
12) Liberty Street Blues (4:01)
13) Q&A With Henry Butler (15:02)

Credits
Produced by: Henry Butler
Executive Producer: Mark Samuels
Associate Executive Producer: Will Samuels
Recorded by: Steve Reynolds @ Ultrasonic in New Orleans, LA
Mixed by Henry Butler & Steve Reynolds @ Ultrasonic
Mastered by Parker Dinkins @ Masterdigital
Art Direction by Tom Thompson
Photography by Earl Perry & David Richmond
Graphic Design by MAJIKMINE Design, www.majikmine.com
Liner Notes by Henry Butler
Manufacturing and prepress by Crescent Music Services, www.crescentmusic.com
BSR 0801-2
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Henry Butler Bio
Once you’ve heard what bluesman Henry Butler’s hands can create on those ivories, there’s no going back. Those hands boogie that keyboard like no one else’s. Throw in a classically trained voice aching us through the blues, and you’re someplace you have never been before and would give anything to return to, again and again.

Considered the premier exponent of the great New Orleans jazz and blues piano tradition, Butler is a ten-time Pinetop Perkins (formerly W. C. Handy) Best Blues Instrumentalist Award nominee. A rich amalgam of jazz, Caribbean, classical, pop, blues, and R&B, his music is as excitingly eclectic as that of his New Orleans birthplace.

A rich amalgam of jazz, Caribbean, classical, pop, blues, and R&B, his music is as excitingly eclectic as that of his New Orleans birthplace. Blinded by glaucoma at birth, Butler has been playing the piano since he was six years old, and arranging, composing, and performing professionally since he was twelve.

A New York Times review of a performance at New York City’s Jazz Standard described Butler as “percussive in his attack, ostentatious with his technique…the picture of stubborn mischief — and, not coincidentally, of New Orleans pianism. He obliged the spirit of the occasion with his own stylistic consommé: billowing whole-tone glissandi; furrowed, Monkish hiccups; boppish two-handed octaves; flare-ups of funk and Chopin.”

Considered the premier exponent of the great New Orleans jazz and blues piano tradition, Butler’s sound has been influenced by the streets (he grew up in the Calliope Projects in New Orleans, has traveled the world, lived on both coasts and in the heartland); by studying with the greats (Alvin Batiste, Sir Roland Hanna, Professor Longhair, and James Booker, among others); by institutions (Louisiana School for the Blind, Southern University, Baton Rouge, and Michigan State University); and by his willingness to explore new boundaries and to take risks.”

To date, Butler has played almost every major club and festival in the United States, as well as venues in Brazil, France, Norway, Italy, Japan, Australia, and more. For over forty years, he has conducted workshops, clinics, and master classes throughout the country; he also developed a camp for blind and visually impaired teen musicians, the subject of a 2010 documentary, The Music’s Gonna Get You Through.

To date, Butler has played almost every major club and festival in the United States, as well as venues in Brazil, France, Norway, Italy, Japan, Australia, and more. For over forty years, he has conducted workshops, clinics, and master classes throughout the country; he also developed a camp for blind and visually impaired teen musicians, the subject of a 2010 documentary, The Music’s Gonna Get You Through.

Whether it’s as a soloist or with his blues groups (Henry Butler and the Game Band, and Henry Butler and Jambalaya), his traditional jazz band (Papa Henry and the Steamin’ Syncopators), or the “vampy, bouncy, playful, and saucy” Butler, Bernstein & The Hot 9, you’re in for the ride of a lifetime.