Billy Butler

Hard call to pick a fave Bill Butler track. "Right Track" is a stonking classic and those STRINGS (!), but this tune is different from the others, it doesn’t have that unmistakable Curtis Mayfield touch. This is the flip of the also excellent "My Heart Is Hurtin’". You’ll see W. E. Butler billed as Billy Butler, Billy Butler and the Chanters, Billy Butler and the Enchanters, and Billy Butler & the Four Enchanters. I heard "Nevertheless" spun at the SF Mod Night one of the two times I visited, and it sounded great slightly sped up. (Is that a real faux pas to liking that tampering or even practicing the tampering of a song’s speed? I know funk DJ’s do it, but that’s a different kind of thing, solely dance oriented)

by Nancy Yahiro, Los Angeles