Bradley Glenn "Butch" Walker was born on November 14,1969 and is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer.
30 Facts About Butch Walker
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Butch Walker was the lead guitarist for the glam metal band SouthGang from the late 1980s to early 1990s as well as the lead vocalist and guitarist for rock band Marvelous 3 from 1997 until 2001.
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Butch Walker shared lead vocals in the band with Fincher's wife, Chrystina Lloree.
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The style of both these albums was guitar-oriented, mainstream rock with mild funk influences, and was a forerunner to the more basic guitar-oriented rock approach Butch Walker took later with Marvelous 3.
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Butch Walker then began a solo career, releasing the albums Left of Self-Centered in 2002, Letters in 2004 and The Rise and Fall of Butch Walker and the Let's-Go-Out-Tonites in 2006.
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Butch Walker was featured as a headlining artist on the MySpace-promoted Inaugural Hotel Cafe tour, supporting independent artists from the Los Angeles venue of the same name.
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In 2008, Butch Walker released the live album Leavin' the Game on Luckie Street.
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Butch Walker then collaborated with Michael Chislett of The Academy Is.
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Butch Walker played a series of sold-out live shows with just acoustic guitar and vocals beginning in fall 2009, accompanied at various times by Pink, actor Jeremy Piven, Jim Bianco, the Chapin Sisters, Gregory Macdonald of Sloan and more.
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Swift blogged about the video and then invited Butch Walker to appear with her at the winter 2010 Grammy Awards.
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On October 25,2011 Butch Walker released his first book, an autobiography entitled Drinking with Strangers: Music Lessons from a Teenage Bullet Belt.
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In late 2012, Butch Walker was featured on the show Live from Daryl's House on MTV Live.
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In June 2016 it was announced that Butch Walker's upcoming album would be titled Stay Gold.
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On March 27,2020, Butch Walker premiered the first promo track for his upcoming album named American Love Story, which is set to be released on May 8.
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Butch Walker has been called "one of America's best singer-songwriters" by Rolling Stone.
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Butch Walker has penned choruses for artists ranging from Frank Turner to Fall Out Boy.
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Butch Walker worked with Weezer on their albums Raditude and Pacific Daydream.
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Butch Walker mentioned working with the band during a radio interview with 99X.
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Butch Walker made a brief cameo in the video for "This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race".
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In 2012, Butch Walker produced Fall Out Boy's fifth studio album Save Rock and Roll, which debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, earning the band's second career number one.
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Butch Walker co-wrote the songs "Breaking" and "Younglife", both of which are performed and co-written by Anberlin.
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Butch Walker joined the 9th annual Independent Music Awards judging panel to assist independent musicians' careers.
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In January 2009, post-hardcore band Saosin tapped Butch Walker to produce their second album for Capitol Records.
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In March 2009, the song "Open Happiness" debuted, a new business venture by Coca-Cola, written by Butch Walker, and featuring Cee-Lo Green, Brendon Urie, Patrick Stump, Janelle Monae and Travis McCoy.
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In 2012, Butch Walker produced the song "Everything Has Changed", written and recorded by Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran for Swift's fourth studio album, Red.
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In 2021, Butch Walker produced the re-recorded version of the song for Swift's second re-recorded album, Red.
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In 2022, Butch Walker produced the song "August is Falling" by pop-punk band August is Falling, featuring on the EP The Simple Plan.
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Butch Walker titled his next album Sycamore Meadows after the street the house was on.
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Butch Walker is an ordained minister in the state of Ohio.
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At a concert September 7,2016, at the House of Blues in Cleveland, Ohio, Butch Walker climbed off the stage and into the crowd to marry a couple live before the end of the show.