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April Uprising by John Butler Trio
April Uprising is an album by John Butler Trio, released in 2010. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 9 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “One Way Road”, on 8 lists with a best position of #39.
April Uprising, the fifth studio album from Australian roots rockers the John Butler Trio, came out in 2010 after sessions in Fremantle that ran from late 2009 into early 2010. The title has a story behind it: Butler went to Bulgaria for the TV series Who Do You Think You Are to dig into his ancestry, and named the record after the uprising of 1876, a landmark in that country's history.
It was a new trio, too: Butler singing and playing guitar, Byron Luiters holding down the bottom end and Nicky Bomba behind the kit, and they play it warm, rootsy and restless, folk at its core but always itching to break into a groove. "One Way Road" came first, in December 2009, with "Close to You" following in March 2010, both with videos. Like Sunrise Over Sea and Grand National before it, the album debuted at number one in Australia and went platinum.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from April Uprising on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One Way Road | 8 | #39 | – | 2009–2025 | |
| 2 | Revolution | 1 | #39 | – | 2010 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.