One Small Step

About One Small Step

One Small Step, is a live album by John Butler. It features 8 tracks from three previous John Butler Trio albums, recorded live at Twist & Shout Records in Colorado, United States. The album was also released under the title Live At Twist & Shout.

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One Small Step (subtitled Live and Solo), is a live album by John Butler. It features 8 tracks from three previous John Butler Trio albums, recorded live at Twist & Shout Records in Colorado, United States. The album was also released under the title Live At Twist & Shout.

The albums inner gatefold also featured an advertisement for OxfamAUS's "Close The Gap" campaign, which aims at narrowing the difference between the average life span of indigenous and non-indigenous Australians (currently 17 years). $1 AUD from every sale of the record was donated to Close The Gap.

Contents

Track listing

"Used To Get High" (from Grand National) - 4:18

"Treat Yo Mama" (from Sunrise Over Sea) - 5:41

"Daniella" (from Grand National) - 3:22

"Ocean" (from John Butler) - 9:53

"Better Than" (from Grand National) - 4:20

"Zebra" (from Sunrise Over Sea) - 3:53

"Fire In The Sky" (from Grand National) - 3:47

"Funky Tonight" (from Grand National) - 6:04

Personnel

John Butler - Vocals, acoustic/amplified 11 string guitar, banjo, Weissenborn lapsteel, Harmonica

Artwork & Design by Tom Walker

Cover Photography by James Minchin

Live Photography by Chris Newman, Adam Whitehouse, Brad Woodard

Recorded by Ian Hlatky

Mixed by Jeff Juliano

Mastered by Brian "Big Bass" Gardner

Charts

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Notable quotes

“I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul ... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.”
— Apollo mission press conference (1969); ABC World News; also quoted in Of a Fire on the Moon (1970) by Norman Mailer, and in First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong (2005) by James R. Hansen
“That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.”
— Words said when Armstrong first stepped onto the Moon (20 July 1969) One Small Step, transcript of Apollo 11 Moon landing. In the actual sound recordings he apparently fails to say "a" before "man" and says: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." This was generally considered by many to simply be an error of omission on his part. Armstrong long insisted he did say "a man" but that it was inaudible. Prior to new evidence supporting his claim, he stated a preference for the "a" to appear in parentheses when the quote is written. The debate continues on the matter, as "Armstrong's 'poetic' slip on Moon" at BBC News (3 June 2009) reports that more recent analysis by linguist John Olsson and author Chris Riley with higher quality recordings indicates that he did not say "a".
“I remember on the trip home on Apollo 11 it suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.”
— As quoted in The People's Almanac (1975) by David Wallechinsky and Irving Wallace, p. 675
“I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.”
— Declining to be interviewed for a magazine article, quoted in "Armstrong's Code" by Kathy Sawyer in Washington Post Magazine (11 July 1999)
“Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying. Pilots generally take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle.”
— On his famous moonwalk, as quoted in In the Shadow of the Moon : A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969 (2007) by Francis French and Colin Burgess
“I thought, well. when I step off it's just going to be a little step — a step from there down to there — but then I thought about all those 400,000 people who had given me the opportunity to make that step and thought it's going to be a big something for all those folks and, indeed for a lot of others that weren't even involved in the project, so it was kind of a simple correlation.”
— On what inspired him to say his famous words, "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind."

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