This special volume presents mandolin music in standard notation and tablature for 19 songs from Butch's Old Town album on the Rebel label, plus recordings with the groups Weary Hearts (By Heart) and Lonesome Standard Time (Lonesome Standard Time and Mighty Lonesome) on the Sugar Hill label. Having been influenced by various mandolin players, Butch writes: 'I've also tried to emulate the vocal qualities of a fiddle and the sustain of the guitar to forge what's become by style of playing. I like to think that I'm always trying to use all that the mandolin has to offer...Put it all together and you have the sounds that can be produced by our mutually beloved instrument, the mandolin.' The basic simplicity of Butch's approach and his core conceptions are both interesting in themselves and as essential building blocks for expansion and elaboration by the developing musician.