The Way Home
Total Guitar|January 2019

He’s 20 Years Into His Career And Australia’s Biggest Independent Artist, But That Doesn’t Mean John Butler Is Afraid To Step Into The Unknown As A Musician. He Guides Us On His Inspiring Journey To New Album, Home, Via India, Ipad Demos And Stargazing.

Rob Laing
The Way Home

Even for an artist whose willingness to explore genres transcended the description of ‘roots’ musician long ago, Home marked a dramatic change in the studio for John Butler – largely without his band. “It just wasn’t flowing the way I wanted it to flow,” he explains to us. “I found that around the second session I was way too sensitive to everything and the more people that were around, the more complicated it seemed to get. And not because of them, because of me. I just need to really simplify everything to get out this idea that I had.” As we’ll find out, technology played its part too. “A lot of my demos are pretty much how the album is, though recorded more sub par! So I really wanted to make sure all those ideas came out. I was feeling like I was asking people to play what I wanted them to, as opposed to a creative process. And I was aware of that and a little paranoid about it I guess. But I needed to make the music I needed to make, so the best way to do that was by myself with a producer. I would have done it by myself but I didn’t know how to work all the gear. So I needed to work with someone who I really trusted. I just needed to get everything that I had out. But a lot of it was how it was pre-produced on my iPad…”

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How GarageBand on the iPad played a massive part in Home’s creation

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