A native of Georgia, Jasper, Pickens County, Butch Watkins learned the guitar with the pastor of the local Baptist church. He bathes very young in music, singing, his parents play the violin and accordion on Saturday night in the balls when they do not animate – volunteer – a radio show on K-WAWA.
Butch quickly starts to rock, folk trend. But when you play guitar, Georgia, we can not do without the Allman brothers, Duane course, and his friend Dickie Betts, which soon will influence the game Butch. At the time, he plays a dual microphone Transformers Haupmann that bought him his uncle, the banjo player Hermann Froditts. With some buddies, Butch toured the bars. Ambient noise, glasses falling, the guys who shout or dégueulent which s’mouchent that burp, Butch forced to tighten the sound to be heard, and Classic Rock Bluegrass Country-trend looks like a Heavy- rough blues armholes.