Jerry Butler

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Jerry Butler and Allen Toussaint: The Spice Of Life
Profile by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 7 October 1972
IT'S NOT so long since soul albums were merely collections of singles, plus a few make-weight tracks. ...
Night Affair with Jerry Butler
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc, 4 November 1972
"THE CONCEPT of my album was to capture variety in a record. 'One Night Affair' deals with the feeling I think all men have at ...
Jerry Butler: Everything's Copa-setic
Report and Interview by Wayne Robins, Creem, April 1973
GOING TO see Jerry Butler at the Copa is in some ways like watching Valentino hump a corpse. Merely being at the Copa is a ...
The Iceman Talking: The Life And Times Of Jerry Butler
Interview by Norman Jopling, Cream, June 1973
BUTLER'S MUSIC Workshop is upstairs in a tatty warehouse building in Chicago's South Side, very near Chinatown and uncomfortably near Lake Michigan so it gets ...
Jerry Butler: Power Of Love (Mercury)
Review by John Swenson, Zoo World, 9 May 1974
JERRY BUTLER is unquestionably the King of Chicago-style cool R&B (the name Ice Man didn't come for nothing at a time when Pickett epitomized ...
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 8 October 1974
THOUGH JOHNNY Bristol has been involved with recording success for years now, his past track record stems from his career as a record producer. But ...
Jerry Butler: The Iceman Cometh, Yet Again
Profile and Interview by Roger St. Pierre, Black Echoes, 24 July 1976
IT WAS deejay George Wood who originally tagged Jerry Butler "The Iceman" because of his on-stage cool and it's still an especially appropriate nickname, not ...
Jerry Butler: The Ice Man cometh
Interview by Robin Katz, Record Mirror, 13 November 1976
JERRY BUTLER, throughout his career, has consistently sung with a mollasses smooth voice that's deep, sensitive and sincere. ...
Review by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 12 February 1977
Bobby Womack: Home Is Where The Heart Is (CBS)Jerry Butler: Suite For The Single Girl (Motown) ...
Jerry Butler: The Return The Ice Man
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 19 July 1977
There were those who felt Jerry Butler might fade into obscurity. But, you can't keep a good man down and he's back with a vengeance...a ...
Jerry Butler: The Ice Man Returneth Home
Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 7 November 1978
Jerry talks to B&S about his reunion with Gamble and Huff and his plans for the future... ...
Curtis Mayfield, Jerry Butler & The Impressions: Greek Theatre, Los Angeles
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 16 July 1983
FEW THINGS in this amorphous and inchoate universe are so perfect as Im So Proud or Womans Got Soul – or very nearly any of ...
Jerry Butler: The Ice Man Cometh
Interview by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 11 October 1986
JERRY BUTLER Chicago crooner, beer businessman and local politician meets cool SIMON WITTER ...
Retrospective by Bill Brewster, bbc.co.uk, 2001
CHICAGO SOUL MUSIC, that weird conflation of gospel, rhythm and blues, latin rhythms and bass-heavy horn riffing, was somewhat overshadowed by its more well-known brothers ...
Jerry Butler: The Ice Man Cometh/Ice On Ice
Sleeve notes by Gene Sculatti, Collectors Choice Music, November 2006
As well as being two classic albums of '60s pop-soul, The Ice Man Cometh and Ice on Ice comprise a tale of two cities – ...
see also Billy Butler
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