John Boutté is hard to intimidate. He may be the only guy who has ever told Stevie Wonder that his singing was flat. Boutté's observation, during a chance encounter with Wonder, changed his life for good. What's more, it made our lives better.
For more than 20 years, Boutté has built a career writing and performing his own songs, as well as re-interpreting the signature work of others. This week, Boutté tells Music Inside Out how he got so good at finding lyrics to suit his voice, his tenderness, his outrage and his legendary sass.
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Classified Spotify
James Booker
If I Had My Life to Live Over Spotify
John Boutté
See You On the Other Side MOG
John Boutté
No No (The River) MOG
John Boutté
The Grass is Greener MOG
John Boutté
All Around the World MOG
Little Milton
All Around the World MOG
James Booker
All Around the World MOG
John Boutte
The Eternal Now Spotify | MOG
John Boutté
That's My Desire Spotify | MOG
John Boutté
Unchained Melody
Little Jimmy Scott
My Life Spotify
Iris Dement
My Life Spotify | MOG
John Boutté
Dark Water Spotify | MOG
Galactic featuring John Boutté
The War is All Over MOG
John Boutté
Easy Going Evening (My Mama's Call) Spotify
Stevie Wonder
Tremé Spotify | MOG
John Boutté
Classified Spotify
James Booker
A Thousandfold MOG
John Boutté
And a little lagniappe...
Hallelujah
John Boutté with OperaCréole
2012 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
(available on Itunes)
CORRECTION: In Thursday's edition of Music Inside Out, host Gwen Thompkins said the rapper Mystikal, a.k.a. Michael Lawrence Tyler, did not serve in the U.S. Army. She was really, really, wrong. Tyler is a U.S. Army veteran and served in Operation Desert Storm. We regret the error.
