“Good Excuse” by John Butler Trio

"Good Excuse" is John Butler's song, words and music, from Grand National, the fourth John Butler Trio album, released in 2007. Butler sings lead and plays acoustic guitar and harmonica, Shannon Birchall is on double bass, and Michael Barker plays drums plus a whole kit bag of percussion, from congas and cowbell to crotales and vibraslap, with Michael Caruana adding Hammond organ and piano. Birchall and Barker sing backing vocals and co-produced it; Butler produced it with Mario Caldato Jr., who also engineered and mixed.

The album's name has a story behind it: it comes from the antique dobro Butler inherited from his grandfather, a nod to the old Dobro and National guitar makers, rivals who merged into the National-Dobro Corporation in 1934.

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