I Am Winter - This song by Sam Butler and Nelson Bogart is a beautifully crooned and performed tune that hits you right in your emotional cortex (wherever that is) and bleeds you melancholic.
The voice of Sam Butler bring you right back to the long lost days of Mowtown and the detroit sounds of the early 60's and late 70's.
There is so much in this man's voice, he could sing the phonebook and still keep your attention.
The music by Nelson Bogart, is simple, contained and smart enough to affect the vocals rather than overpower them. They provide a landscape that Mr. Butler walks through with one of the most emotive voices heard today.
If you've heard Sam Cooke sing A Change Is Gonna Come (which i would love to hear from these two) then you know where I Am Winter is deeply rooted.
There is another " Butler " that this song evokes and that is the great Jerry Butler who's famed voice and songwriting finds his foil here in Sam Butler and Nelson Bogart.
I wouldn't be surprised if they were somehow related.
This is a 5 star song.
Link to the song and EPK
http://www.musicxray.com/artists/sambutlerandnelsonbogart
Singer Sam Butler, a past member of Clarence Fountain and the Blind Boys of Alabama, is currently promoting his new album with Clarence Fountain.
Writer/ performer/ producer Nelson Bogart was a New York session player (guitar and trumpet) recording and touring internationally with Jazz, rock and new music groups, including "Live Aid" with Hall and Oates, Mick Jagger and Tina Turner, Dave Brubeck and the Brubeck Brothers, Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul, and a host of others.
He now spends his waking (and dreaming) hours writing and producing.
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