Fox Hill Lane is the name of the small rural road on a bucolic stretch of northern KZN coastline where singularly gifted songwriter and guitarist Guy Buttery lived when he wrote the material for his third studio album. With Buttery’s music a unique brand of neo-pastoral indie-folk viscerally connected to the soil from which it sprang – his previous release is called Songs From The Cane Fields – it was a no-brainer for Buttery to baptise his new creation Fox Hill Lane.

At the tender age of 25, Buttery is already approaching something approximating world renown with the past year having included increasingly high-profile live shows across Africa, Europe, America and Australia and media touchstones such as Guitar Magazine proclaiming him one of the finest fingerstyle guitarists of his generation. Fox Hill Lane is already Buttery’s third album and by far his most mature, masterful and assured. Aside from the stunning solo work, the disc features collaborations with Nibs van der Spuy, Dan Patlansky, Tony Cox, Piers Faccini, Madala Kunene and Syd Kitchen. Achieving the rare crossover combination of greater accessability and evolved lyricism, the album could be the one that takes Buttery from the cane fields to KwaZulu-Natal to the snowcapped pinnacles of success.

The national tour to launch Fox Hill Lane kicks off in Buttery’s home town of Durban with a performance at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre on Monday August 31 at 7.30pm with tickets at R50 available at the door from 6.30pm. CD copies of Fox Hill Lane are on sale