Acoustic Guitar, December 1st, 2005
The Australian rocker bridges 20th-century roots music and new-millennium acoustic experimentalism with his Maton 12-string and a blaring Marshall stack.
Whether you're intrigued by the thought of a Maton 12-string plugged into a distortion box and a blazing Marshall half-stack or think it could only sound like crap, you need to check out the John Butler Trio's Sunrise over Sea. Butler-a 30-year-old Australian influenced by Tony McManus' Celtic guitar work, Gillian Welch's banjo playing, and the fingerpicking on Dolly Parton's "Jolene" as much as he is by U2's epic rock, Jane's Addiction's ro...
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