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TRUE ROMANCE

John Butler’s latest single “Just Call” is a prime piece of rootsy pop, built on his trademark evocative fingerpicking, but it didn’t have the easiest journey into his enviable catalogue. The starry-eyed, loving tribute to his wife Danielle was an idea that orbited Butler’s muse for 13 years before making it to wax.

“I could just never find the right chorus,” Butler admits, “Or the right second verse. But the song would just not let me go. It kept coming back, like a lost puppy. And the night before the album session, the words just came to me. I

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