Acoustic Guitar Player

John Butler is one of the great contemporay guitar players that manages to be be cool enough to fit nicely into the contemporay acoustic rock market but is well respected by his peers.  He’s no slouch as a guitarist, is very popular in Australia and bridges the gap between styles. You’ll often find his music categorized in the music shops under roots. He uses technology extremely well and can overdrive an acoustic guitar but it still sounds musical. His years busking has helped him develop a style that has confidence and strength. He uses a number of open tunings on the guitar, for those that are unfamiliar with what that means, quite simply: The guitar is tuned differently, this creates a number of new tonal possibilities that are not physically possible in normal tuning. John was born in California.

This song is called ‘The Ocean’