“Treat Yo Mama” by John Butler Trio

"Treat Yo Mama" comes off Sunrise Over Sea, the John Butler Trio's third studio album, released in March 2004, and it's Butler's show: he wrote it, produced it, sings lead and plays lap steel. Behind him is the new lineup he'd just assembled, Nicky Bomba on djembe and Shannon Birchall on double bass, with Michael Barker adding congas, goblet drum and tambourine and Danielle Caruana on backing vocals.

The album was cut in late 2003 at Woodstock Studios in Melbourne, owned by Joe Camilleri of Jo Jo Zep & the Falcons and the Black Sorrows, with Robin Mai engineering and mixing. Butler came out of it calling himself the keeper of his music, after the right chemistry for these songs rather than the same players for years. Bomba went back to his own reggae band and wouldn't record with the Trio again until April Uprising in 2010.

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