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Butterill offers sexy grooves By Fish Griwkowsky - Edmonton Sun NO ONE YOU KNOW Kenny Butterill - (No Bull Songs) |
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| Saturday,
August 12, 2000
What? What was that?
I had
to go back and look at the lyrics after Kenny Butterill sings, "How
far can we go?" Especially when he just sings, "far can" without really
pronouncing the r.
This is
totally mellow makeout music, man.
Butterill
sounds a bit like Mark Knopfler from Dire Straits, but the album opens
up nice and country, despite the saucy possible misinterpretation of
the lyrics. It seems pretty intentional. A fine song, this How Far
Can We Go.
The next
tune is all about how a certain woman knows how to make love to him,
in some detail, and the whole album after that has a really good, sexy
groove.
Surprisingly
so.
No One
You Know is the title and it's true. Just who is this Kenny Butterill?
We can only listen.
Excellent
playing adds to the appeal. This is singer-songwriter stuff and though
he's based in California, his song Back to Canada shows why his
stripe has appeal. He's wistful about things we get to take advantage
of daily.
There's
even one written for Princess Diana, recorded a year before she
died. "Wish I could've whisked you away, away from you know who," he
sings, saying he'd love to have been her jester, she his queen.
This man
is all about love; it's his addiction. But rather than be a big dork
about it like most hot country singers, or all bitter like a lot of
folksingers, Butterill has enough maturity to be matter of fact about
the good and the bad without making it seem like the ramblings of some
spazzy drama queen.
Besides
the album cover, a duet with Nulita Fries is the low point of the album,
as male-female duets sure can tend to be, but it's forgivable.
Who is
Kenny Butterill? Someone in touch. Get mellow and check him out!
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