“What You Want” by John Butler Trio

"What You Want" comes from Sunrise Over Sea, the John Butler Trio's third studio album, released in March 2004 and cut late the previous year at Woodstock Studios in Melbourne, owned by Joe Camilleri of Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons and the Black Sorrows. Butler had rebuilt the band around percussionist Nicky Bomba and upright bassist Shannon Birchall, though it would be Bomba's only record with the Trio until April Uprising in 2010.

Butler wrote, produced and sang the song and plays 12-string guitar on it; Bomba adds percussion and tambourine, Danielle Caruana sings background vocals, and Birchall plays double bass and joins an eight-player string section. Robin Mai engineered and mixed. Butler told Rolling Stone's Australian edition the sessions taught him he was the keeper of his own music, free to pick whichever players suited the songs at the time.

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