Letters (Butch Walker album)

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Letters
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Studio album by Butch Walker
Released August 24, 2004
Recorded Ruby Red Productions (Atlanta, Georgia)
Genre Rock, pop rock
Length51:12
Label Epic
Producer Jim Ebert, Butch Walker
Butch Walker chronology
Heartwork EP
(2004) Heartwork EP2004
Letters
(2004)
This Is Me... Justified and Stripped
(2004) This Is Me... Justified and Stripped2004
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Letters is the second full-length album by Butch Walker, released on August 24, 2004 on Epic Records. It featured an enhanced CD portion with the music videos to "Mixtape" and "Don't Move".

Butch Walker American musician

Bradley Glenn "Butch" Walker is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He 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.

Epic Records American record label

Epic Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc., the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony. The label was founded predominantly as a jazz and classical music label in 1953, but later expanded its scope to include a more diverse range of genres, including pop, R&B, rock, and hip hop. Epic Records has released music by artists including Glenn Miller, Tammy Wynette, George Michael, The Yardbirds, Donovan, Shakin Stevens, Europe, Cheap Trick, Meat Loaf, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Ted Nugent, Shakira, Sly & the Family Stone, The Hollies, Celine Dion, ABBA, Culture Club, Boston, Dave Clark Five, Gloria Estefan, Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine, and Michael Jackson. Along with Arista, Columbia and RCA Records, Epic is one of Sony Music Entertainment's four flagship record labels.

Enhanced CD certification mark

Enhanced CD is a certification mark of the Recording Industry Association of America for various technologies that combine audio and computer data for use in both Compact Disc and CD-ROM players.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Butch Walker, except where noted.

  1. "Sunny Day Real Estate" – 0:28
  2. "Maybe It's Just Me" – 3:20
  3. "Mixtape" – 4:05
  4. "#1 Summer Jam" – 3:28
  5. "So at Last" (Danny Grady, Walker) – 5:28
  6. "Uncomfortably Numb" – 3:33
  7. "Joan" – 4:20
  8. "Don't Move" – 4:08
  9. "Lights Out" – 2:51
  10. "Best Thing You Never Had" – 5:29
  11. "Race Cars and Goth Rock" – 3:02
  12. "Promise" – 3:04
  13. "Thank-You Note" – 7:48

    In the field of recorded music, a hidden track is a piece of music that has been placed on a CD, audio cassette, LP record or other recorded medium in such a way as to avoid detection by the casual listener. In some cases, the piece of music may simply have been left off the track listing, while in other cases more elaborate methods are used. In rare cases a "hidden track" is actually the result of an error that occurred during the mastering stage of the record's production.

Bonus tracks

The Japanese release of the album contained the bonus tracks "Last Flight Out" and "My Best Friend's Magic Girlfriend", from Walker's previous Heartwork EP (2004).

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<i>Heartwork</i> (EP) Butch Walker EP

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Extended play musical recording longer than a single, but shorter than a full album

An extended play record, often referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP. Contemporary EPs generally contain a minimum of three tracks and maximum of six tracks, and are considered "less expensive and time-consuming" for an artist to produce than an album. An EP originally referred to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play (SP) and LP, but it is now applied to mid-length CDs and downloads as well.

Personnel

Electric guitar electrified guitar; fretted stringed instrument with a neck and body that uses a pickup to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals. The vibration occurs when a guitar player strums, plucks, fingerpicks, slaps or taps the strings. The pickup generally uses electromagnetic induction to create this signal, which being relatively weak is fed into a guitar amplifier before being sent to the speaker(s), which converts it into audible sound.

A B-Bender is a guitar accessory that enables a player to mechanically bend the B-string up by as much as a minor third. There are several different designs, but all use levers or pulleys inside or outside the guitar body that are activated by a pull or push of the guitar neck, body, or bridge. The resulting tone sounds much like a pedal steel guitar and contributes a "country" feeling. Originally designed for the Fender Telecaster, B-Benders are now available to fit many solid body electric guitars, and even acoustic guitars.

Drum kit collection of drums and other percussion instruments

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