My Home
12 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsWelcome to My Home. A weekly podcast exploring the writing and production of John Butler Trio's 6th studio album - Home. Each episode you’ll be taken deep into John's creative world: the challenges, insights, techniques, methods and various people he worked with across the globe to deliver this incredible new body of work. Made while on tour across North America 2018. My Home is recorded, mixed, engineered and produced by Tommy Spender.
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Episodes
We Want More
January 13, 2019 23:00 - 20 minutes - 45.9 MBIn this last episode, we here how Kav Temperley from Eskimo Joe contributed to the final ' focussing ' of the intenion of the song. Musically we combine 'chicken picking', Celtic dance music with a reggae dance hall EDM inspired atmosphere. John reveals recording his wife's entire family on his phone in the living room on xmas day yelling the chorus. John talks about the recurring theme of consumerism and how it's greedy hunger is sucking our plant dry.
You Don't Have To Be Angry Anymore
January 06, 2019 23:00 - 21 minutes - 48.1 MBTodays episode John reflects on finally having a sense of wisdom. Inspired in a hotel room giving advice to his young son throwing a tantrum, John unfolds the story of seeing the past behind him and the future ahead.
Brown Eyed Bird
December 30, 2018 23:00 - 17 minutes - 40.7 MBHappy new year to everyone out there enjoying Home! This first week of 2019 John talks about his influences from Bjork to Milky Chance. Producer Jan Skubiszewski brings more gold with his Juno and we learn about a fictitious couple living in their car. Layers of banjo, mandolin, electric and acoustic guitar build the brooding verse in joyful and syncopated joyous chorus. The perfect mix of singer songwriter folky acoustic music with electronic rhythms.
Tell Me Why
December 23, 2018 23:00 - 23 minutes - 54.7 MBThis week, A riff falls out of a trusty old beaten up Yamaha Guitar after hours of hard physical labour in John's backyard. The challenge of melding different grooves between machines and humans. This was the first song that came out of John being alone with a producer and making it all ' in the box '
Coffee, Methadone & Cigarettes
December 16, 2018 23:00 - 28 minutes - 64.2 MBOne of Johns most personal moments in the series, this episode takes us back into the trauma of a bushfire in which his grandfather was killed attempting to protect the township of Nannup W.A, and the ongoing generational repercussions of that tragic day.
Faith
December 09, 2018 23:00 - 26 minutes - 61.8 MBEverybody needs a little faith. A moment of inspiration while holding an old kick around guitar looking up at the stars on a camping trip with his son, John pieces together the elements of spiritual wisdom that surround him into his own synthesis and philosophy. All the while talking about Elvis, synthesisers, iPads and cosmic guitar solos.
Miss Your Love
December 02, 2018 23:00 - 25 minutes - 57.3 MBThis week we get a little more philosophical and look into what it means to come of age as a man. Johns opens up about challenging the traditions of masculinity and femininity in our culture . Are you or do you know a boy walking around in a mans body? And where does a good man sit in a world where the Patriarchy is being challenged in new ways by a new generation.
Home
November 25, 2018 23:00 - 20 minutes - 47 MBThis week we learn that sometimes a song needs a champion. Close friend, and long time tour manager Kester Sapho kept on about a demo, ultimately encouraging John through all his hesitation. A song that nearly didn't make it and a rare musical moment for John, stepping away from guitar.
Just Call
November 11, 2018 23:00 - 20 minutes - 46.2 MBWhat happens when a guitar riff sits on a shelf for over 15 years and is finally made into a song? Learn about a guitar tuning that heavily influenced many of Johns songs, and the epic tale of John meeting his wife Dannielle many moons ago while circumnavigating Australia in a van.
Wade In The Water
November 04, 2018 23:00 - 22 minutes - 51.5 MBFollow the links to learn more : Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya
Tahitian Blue
October 25, 2018 23:00 - 30 minutes - 48.8 MBWhat colour is Tahitian Blue? This week we take a trip on a catamaran with John and a few mates through the Tahitian Islands to find out where this song first found its way.