Beautiful Dreamer

by Butch Young

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Released by Big Stir Records Digital Single Series on June 21, 2019

www.bigstirrecords.com/big-stir-digital-singles

"This languorous and elastic swirl of strings and slide guitar evokes the kind of dream state that’s sure to sweat the sheets. Despite the confounding and troubling contents of this fever dream, our pulchritudinous and unconscious subject is encouraged to “have another wink or two” before springing to life. Night terrors never sounded so sweet."

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GOLDMINE MAGAZINE

www.goldminemag.com/columns/much-to-delight-in-compilation-international-pop-overthrow-vol-22

By John Borack

February 10, 2020

Butch Young’s “Beautiful Dreamer” is a creamy-sounding, mini-Spectorian jewel.

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COOL DAD MUSIC

www.cooldadmusic.com/2019/10/various-artists-international-pop.html

October 4, 2019 -- By Henry Lipput

Various Artists, International Pop Overthrow: Volume 22, 2019

Butch Young makes a widescreen sound worthy of a John Ford western on "Beautiful Dreamer" that recalls George Harrison on his Cloud Nine album (The song has a lot of the sound of Harrison's guitar playing from that period.) or even the best of ELO.

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PURE POP RADIO

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June 25, 2019 -- by Alan Haber

Butch Young | “Captain Serious” b/w “Beautiful Dreamer” (Big Stir Records)

The flip side of this sterling Big Stir digital single, “Beautiful Dreamer,”
a wonderful, dramatically orchestrated, catchy ELO-ish ballad, charts the course of a person who hides within sleep to avoid doom and gloom (“Bad feelings bottled up and then / An imminent calamity / Run baby, run”). Will these bad feelings pass, beautiful dreamer? “Have another wink or two / Before you spring to life / When will you open up / Your heart to see / The spell you’re under?”

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lyrics

Beautiful Dreamer

Five fingers on a gun
Staring back at me
Nine images rerun
In the dream factory

Same letters jumbled up again
That always spell catastrophe
Still holding on

Beautiful dreamer
Have another wink or two
Before you spring to life
Until you open up
Your eyes to see
The world of wonder

Five fingers a gun
Right in back of me
My legs refuse to run
Though they’re all after me

Bad feelings bottled up and then
An imminent calamity
Run, baby, run

Beautiful dreamer
Grab another wink or two
Before you spring to life
Until you open up
Your eyes to leave
The world of slumber

I’d better wake you up again
Or is this how it has to be?
Still holding on

Beautiful dreamer
Have another wink or two
Before you spring to life
When will you open up
Your heart to see
The spell you’re under?

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released June 21, 2019
c. Butch Young 2019

Recorded in Butch Young's living room in Sherman Oaks, California.

Butch Young: vocals + acoustic guitar + virtual (midi) instruments

Matt Lee; electric guitars + bass

Anthony Marchisone: drums

Mixed and mastered by George Shilling

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Butch Young Los Angeles, California

Butch Young serves up an idiosyncratic brand of Brit-influenced pop, alternately exuberant and melancholic, by turns Baroque, Bubblegum and bittersweet. Featuring principal collaborator Matt Lee on electric guitar and bass.

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