Biography
George Butler, 1 October 1936, Autaugville, Alabama, USA, d. 1 March 2005, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Butler was one of the last of the wandering bluesmen. He suffered from the general lack of interest in older musical forms shown by the black record-buying public, yet still managed to make his most prized recordings during the mid- to late 60s. Butler’s introduction to the blues came via his elder brother Edward (he was one of 12 children), but his imagination was sparked by the recordings of Sonny Boy ‘Rice Miller’ Williamson, and with a harmonica in his pocket he took to the road. He recorded an unreleased single in Montgomery, Alabama, but his real break came in 1964 when Willie Dixon introduced him to Stan Lewis’ Jewel label, which, operating out of Shreveport, Louisiana, was the only label of any size still producing records for the southern juke-box trade. Butler recorded ‘Down In The Chilé’ for the...
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