Just saw this posted on one of the music lists I belong to:
Kenny Butrey, famous drummer is gone. Remembered as being one of Nashville's greatest and heavest working players over the past 30 years. One of the "Area Code 615" members.
Edited to add this accompany obit from WestCoastMusic.com:
http://noted.blogs.com/westcoastmusic/2 ... rey_d.html
September 14, 2004
Kenny Buttrey dies at 59, drummer for Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Dan Fogelberg...
Kenny Buttrey, an influential session drummer in Nashville history, died at home in Nashville on Sunday (September 12) of cancer. Kenny Buttrey was 59.
Kenny Buttrey was drummer and arranger on sessions with a host of artists ranging from Bob Dylan to Neil Young to Jimmy Buffett and on classic songs ranging from "All Along the Watchtower" to "Tonight's the Night" to "Margaritaville" and other landmark recordings of the '60s and '70s. He began his career as the drummer with the Nashville band, Charlie McCoy and the Escorts, a staple in Printers Alley.
Kenny Buttrey was a co-founder of the groups Area Code 615 and Barefoot Jerry, with such session players as McCoy, David Briggs, Mac Gayden, Wayne Moss, Weldon Myrick. Barefoot Jerry was popular in Japan and Europe and once played 31 straight sold-out concerts at Paris' Olympia Theatre.
Kenny Buttrey played on Neil Young's "Tonight's the Night," "Harvest" and "After the Goldrush" albums and he also toured with Neil Young in a band that included Ben Keith (steel guitar), Tim Drummond (bass), Jack Nitzsche (piano) and Danny Whitten (guitar and vocals).
In a retrospective of Dylan's recorded work, Village Voice critic Robert Christgau wrote, "Though Bob Dylan has known great rhythm sections (in Muscle Shoals and, especially, The Band), his seminal rock records were cut with Nashville cats on drums--Kenny Buttrey when he was lucky, nonentities when he wasn't."
Other Kenny Buttrey recordings include Jimmy Buffett's "Changes in Latitudes", "Changes in Attitudes" (which yielded "Margaritaville") and Linda Ronstadt's "Silk Purse".
Kenny Buttrey has recorded with: Linda Ronstadt, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Bob Seger, Elvis Presley, Steve Goodman, Dan Fogelberg, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Donovan, George Harrison, J.J. Cale, Joan Baez, Kris Kristofferson, the Everly Brothers, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, the Beau Brummels, John Hammond...
Buttrey's wishes were to be cremated, according to his wife Cheri.
R.I.P.
Kenny Buttrey R.I.P.
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