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Butter featuring G. Love

Doors open 8:30pm

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Table Seats: $25 advance/$30 at the door; Standing Room: $20 in advance/$25 at the door

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Butter is one of those perfect side projects that you wish was more of a permanent thing. The players come from an impressive and diverse assembly of bands you’ve definitely have heard of (and some you’ll hear of soon)—G. Love and the Special Sauce, Ghosts of Jupiter, Dub Apocalypse, and the mighty J. Geils Band. Saucy funk, bare-boned blues, hook-driven rock, and hip-jarring soul run this party, along with anything else punchy that fits. You feel like you’re stealing something when you see this band.

It’s an awesome secret actually—Butter is fronted by a singer/songwriter/bluesman named Garrett Dutton, a Philly native who was raised playing blues on the streets of Boston. He gets around the underground, but his main gig puts him in front of packed rooms and major festivals worldwide via the stage name G. Love. You’ve probably heard of him, even if you swear you haven’t.

In Butter, the limits are boundless and the band is fresh for the challenge. At the core is Johnny Trama, a Boston-based guitarist whose workhorse chops dance fearlessly between soul, psychedelic-rock, dub, and jazz. He effortlessly lives this balance on a nightly basis with the bands where he serves as a vital nucleus—Ghosts of Jupiter, Dub Apocalypse, Jesse Dee, and the B3 Kings.

Butter’s backline is a thunderous mix of muscle and intelligence. Drummer Tom Arey is the go-to guy for some serious gigs. Right now he’s manning the throne behind the recent and incredibly potent incarnation of the J. Geils Band (and he’s younger than those guys by decades).

You could press textbooks at Berklee with bassist Timo Shanko’s musical IQ. He actually gets the call when there are exceptionally complicated jazz pieces in need of transcription. But there’s no need for brain-busting here, Shanko takes the sonically impossible and turns it into something even the layperson can get down to … and the best part is he makes it look easy.

Butter is best served live. The shows are at the brilliant mercy of the collaborative process, and that’s a great thing when driven by players of this caliber. Equal parts of focus and abandon make for a thrilling ride.

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