Along with winning the award for 'Best Independent Release' at the 2001 Aria Music Awards for this album, the band held down the number three spot on Australia's alternative charts for nine months. The album garnered much acclaim and was certified platinum. In 2001, the band released their sophomore album entitled Three. The first decade of the new millennium yielded nothing but progress for the band. 1999 proved to be a successful year and was ended with another tour by the band but at the turn of the new millennium, the trio would finally achieve some of its highest levels of success. After gaining exposure from their first tour, John was invited to perform as a solo act for the folk rock band The Waifs. The group first toured across Western Australia in 1999. The quick start to their careers prompted the band to slow down and directed their attention towards touring. In 1998, the group released their debut album entitled John Butler. After the band's initial creation, their career would jumpstart immediately. The original cast consisted of lead vocalist and guitarist John Butler, drummer Jason McGann and bassist Gavin Shoesmith. The multi-platinum roots and jam band was founded in 1998. “Our planet responds to music of all forms - whether it’s birds, wild animals, humans.The John Butler Trio is a band from Fremantle, Australia. “We celebrate the roots of something that’s been connecting human beings since the beginning of time - that’s music,” he said.

this summer, with the nation embroiled in a bitter and heated culture war, Rudd said he is attempting to unite people with a universal message and music that he hopes will help people rise above the day-to-day battles of 2018. Rudd has been outspoken on political and environmental issues throughout his career, and has led activist efforts on behalf of indigenous Australians. I haven’t gotten to the point where I feel like I’m going over the hill and going back down. “I feel there’s still an upward progression within myself. “I feel like I’m on another level in every way these days,” he said. Rudd, who turned 40 this past week, sees the new record as a creative breakthrough. So I think it’s more personal, more reflective.” … The United Nations project, I wrote a bunch of tracks for that project and it was everybody bringing their individuality to the table, whereas this has been constructed by me. “I was writing these songs back then and some even before then. “It feels like a follow-up to ‘Spirit Bird’ in a way,” Rudd said. It’s been six years since Rudd’s last proper solo record, “Spirit Bird.” The new one showcases an honest, earnest and personal side of Rudd, in songs filled with images of the natural world and soaring melodies on tracks like the lovely lead single “Walk Away.” Many of these new “Storm Boy” songs began gestating in his pre-United Nations period. “I’m bringing my whole solo percussion rig - something I haven’t brought out for a while,” Rudd said.Īnd, as fans have come to expect, Rudd is busting out some new sounds and some rare instruments like an Indian slide guitar and some hand-built, one-of-a-kind contraptions that he has invented. On the current tour, he’s playing with a four-piece band and returning to his roots as a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He put out an ambitious album, “Nanna,” with the group. He put together an eight-piece global collective of world musicians called the United Nations that placed Rudd at the center of a veritable reggae-tinged orchestra. In 2015, Rudd took a creative turn and started packing stages with global collaborators. Playing them all and singing, his sets quickly became must-see concerts and won him a loyal worldwide fan base, including a Colorado contingent that packed his shows in recent years at Belly Up, Jazz Aspen’s Labor Day Festival and the Mammoth Festival. Rudd burst on the international scene following his 2002 debut, “To Let,” playing mostly as a one-man band and storming the stage with a complex instrumental setup worthy of Rube Goldberg: combining as many as three didgeridoos, with a slide guitar on his lap and more string instruments at his side, a stompbox at his feet - drums, dobros, banjos, harmonicas and more within reach.

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