Barefoot Servants   Sound familiar? It should since the collective members of the group have been on your television, car radio and in your homes for the past 20-plus years. Jon Butcher, Ben Schultz, Lee Sklar, and Neal Wilkinson also known as Barefoot Servants have provided music and music production for the world’s most historically important and notable artists. In their roles as highly regarded producers, touring musicians, song writers, recording artists, and composers,Barefoot Servants have already achieved what most musicians can only dream about - international acclaim, international recognition and worldwide respect. Started in 1993 by guitarists Jon Butcher and Ben Schultz, the Servants were born. Having been introduced to legendary bass player Lee Sklar by a mutual friend, the studio veterans began recording their debut CD Barefoot Servants at Capitol Records Studio A in Hollywood, California. It was released in 1994 to critical and commercial success and it's there the band’s story really begins. Sort of.  Having completed one US tour in support of the first CD, life intervened and the Servants found themselves the victims of their own individual success at supplying other famous artists with music and production. Sklar, Butcher et al found themselves eyeball deep in other artist’s album projects, commercial film projects, network television, and international concert touring for the next 10 years straight.   It seemed every project from a Phil Collins world tour to film projects like Showtime's  HENDRIX:The Movie seemed to intervene over the years and that should have been the end of the Servants story - one killer CD and one killer tour. Except that it wasn't. In 2004 Ben, Lee and Jon reconvened around an unrelated studio project and as luck would have it those old feelings of camaraderie were still there in ways that only great players can appreciate. Enlisting ace studio musician and drummer Neal Wilkinson to round out the quartet, Barefoot Servants seemed to have been re-born, back in the saddle and back in the studio to [finally] record the follow-up to its highly regarded debut effort 10 years prior. Jon adds,  "Barefoot Servants music is earthy,soulful. It's the smell of Washington State pine trees and the rich black dirt of Pennsylvania farmland all rolled into one. And all with a big, fat old school back beat. In some ways Servants music is where I began and where I'm going at the same time, both home and destination. When will we get to recording Barefoot Servants 3 ? I don't know, but hopefully it won't be another 10 years !"