Butchered Blues

Butchered Blues is an alternative/ indie-rock studio project founded by singer, songwriter and guitarist Tom Dowling. 

Butchered Blues carries several layers of meaning, referencing both the nature of the compositional process and the end product. “Butchered” references both the sonically diverse range of inspiration and the ‘chopped-up’ nature of the creative process. The name is a tribute to Kasabian’s “Butcher Blues”. However, the project draws inspiration from a very broad range of artists and genres, including but not limited to Oasis, Queens of the Stone Age, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Radiohead, Massive Attack, post-rock and dark ambient music. “Blues”, consistent with its historical description, denotes the social and economic destitution from which the confessional style of the original blues musicians emerged. Dowling’s songs are simply the product of his own personal frustrations with modern life as it exists today.