The Iceman Talking: The Life And Times Of Jerry Butler
Norman Jopling, Cream, June 1973
BUTLER'S MUSIC Workshop is upstairs in a tatty warehouse building in Chicago's South Side, very near Chinatown and uncomfortably near Lake Michigan so it gets those bone-chilling winds that breeze off the great lake. Inside it's warm and welcoming. The people wear nice smiles and on Jerry Butler's desk is a little identity plaque which simply says ICEMAN.
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