Looking for Butter Boy

Archie Roach | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 11, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Hightone Records
• ASIN: B0000005S8
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #295,870 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Butter Boy is found...and he's Rocking!, May 9, 2003

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Samuel S. Lewis "samuelstapleslewis" (Sugartown, LA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Looking for Butter Boy (Audio CD)

Thanks, Malcolm Burn, for letting Archie rock! "Djabugai Lady," "Hold On Tight," and "Give Unto Caesar" break free in fine garage band fashion...but it's free of shallow adolescent pretences that one may associate with three-chord guitar music. Much of the record remains "folk music," but Archie is branching out into neighboring genres. I'm hoping to hear Archie sing more rock songs on future albums.

Archie Roach is one of the English-speaking world's top-shelf songwriters and singers. Archie doesn't sing about "getting the girl" but about loving your wife...if you are man enough. Archie sings about protecting the children's home ("A Child Was Born Here"), about how a grandmother can inspire a boy to resist the stains of ethnic discrimination ("My Grandmother"), and praise the nurturing qualities of mothers ("My Mother's Heartbeat"). This is Archie again, as he did in the "Charcoal Lane" and "Jamu Dreaming" albums, singing about one of the most personal set of issues around -- our very own families.

Archie's family journal comes with a soundtrack! Next comes the documentary film? I hope so...because more of the world needs to find Butter Boy...and listen to his stories.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hey Butterboy!, January 31, 2003

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Lawrence Barlow "lawrenceba549" (Saranac Lake, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Looking for Butterboy (Audio CD)

This man's music is another wonderful thing I brought home from Australia. Many Australian performers work with or cover songs by Archie, and to listen to this CD is to understand the true depth of the man's music. He can be very political and social in his songs; in that respect, he seems to be a mellow version of Australia's Midnight Oil, and with good reason. His political and social songs are less preachy and more of him dealing openly and honestly with his childhood and teen-age years. He was a stolen child (meaning he is an Aboriginal that was forcibally taken from his family by the government) and that resonates in many of his songs on this and previous CD's. Songs like "My Grandmother" "F Troop" "Mother's Heartbeat" and "Louis St John" have definitive politcal lyrics without wanting to blame people, something I find most writers of musical political material can not accomplish. "Djabugai Lady" is a love song that makes you sing the chorus, and "Reach For You" is probably the most soulful, honest, heartfelt and acoustic love song you'll hear for the next twenty years! This is the CD to start with if you want to start listening to Archie Roach. He'll have you "Dancing with My Spirit" (or your spirit) without caring who leads.