The John Butler Trio released a four-track extended play, JBT , in April 2000 with songs short enough to win radio play. It was produced by Butler and Shaun O’Callaghan. Radio station Triple J chose the track “Pickapart” to put on high rotation. The band began to develop a wider reputation with a performance at the East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival in Byron Bay in 2000. Butler recalled that his first gig had about 50 people, the second gig started the same way when “it absolutely pissed with rain and 3000 people ran into our tent. And the show just went berserk. It was like a suffocated fire – you lift the lid and it explodes”. The John Butler Trio has become a regular artist at the annual event.
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