Bozeman Magazine

BluesHeadwaters is a duo that plays acoustic blues in the manner of Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt and other blues legends. Art Butler drives the music on the resonator. Phil Cohea plays rhythm guitar, Harmonica and vocals for that genuine juke joint sound. Art Butler is a retired college professor who also studied and learned the slide guitar down in Tennessee where he spent his professional life. Phil Cohea, retired, started out in Los Angeles in 1965 performing blues based rock and roll. He is a Montana poet and songwriter and a couple of his originals have found their way on to the set list.