“Hello” by John Butler Trio

John Butler did nearly everything on "Hello" himself: he wrote it, sings it, plays the acoustic guitar and produced it for Sunrise Over Sea, the John Butler Trio's third album, which arrived in March 2004. Around him is a brand-new band, Nicky Bomba on percussion and tambourine and Shannon Birchall on double bass.

The record was cut in late 2003 at Woodstock Studios in Melbourne, the room owned by Joe Camilleri of Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons and the Black Sorrows, with Robin Mai engineering and mixing. The new lineup was the point. Butler explained to Rolling Stone's Australian edition that he saw himself as the keeper of the music, picking the right players for the songs of the moment. Bomba went back to his own reggae band afterwards and didn't record with the Trio again until April Uprising in 2010.

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