Funky Tonight

"Funky Tonight" is the first single by the John Butler Trio from their fourth studio album, Grand National. It was released in December, 2006, on Jarrah Records. The song blends funk, roots, blues, and rock. The cover art for the single was designed by Tom Walker.

The song was performed at the ARIA Music Awards of 2007 with special guest Keith Urban, which was then released as a digital download, debuting at number 11 on the ARIA Singles Chart on 12 November 2007.

The video for "Funky Tonight" was directed by Damon Escott and Stephen Lance.

Track listing

All tracks written by John Butler

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Funky Tonight"	3:41
2.	"Good as Gone"	2:32
3.	"Nowhere Man" (demo)	3:26
4.	"Funky Tonight" (live)	6:00
Total length:		15:39

Charts

Chart (2006)¹	Peak position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart^[1]	15
Chart (2007)²	Peak position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart^[2]	11

¹ Album version
² Live version at the ARIA Music Awards of 2007 with Keith Urban

Personnel

John Butler – 12-string guitar, 6-string nylon guitar, banjo, mouth harp, vocals, harmonica
Shannon Birchall – Double bass, electric bass, vocals
Michael Barker – drums, percussion, vocals
Danielle Caruana – Backing vocals on "Good As Gone"

References

↑ The John Butler Trio - Funky Tonight. australian-charts.com. Retrieved on 11 November 2007.
↑ Top 50 Singles Chart. Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved on 11 November 2007.

John Butler Trio

John Butler Byron Luiters Grant Gerathy Michael Barker Shannon Birchall Nicky Bomba Andrew Fry Jason McGann Rory Quirk Gavin Shoesmith

Studio albums	John Butler Three Sunrise Over Sea Grand National April Uprising Flesh & Blood

EPs	Searching for Heritage JBT EP What You Want

Singles	"Zebra" "What You Want" "Something's Gotta Give" "Funky Tonight" "Good Excuse" "Better Than" "Used to Get High"

Live albums	Living 2001-2002 Live at St. Gallen Live At Red Rocks

DVDs	Live at St. Gallen Live At Red Rocks

Keith Urban singles

Keith Urban (1991)	"Only You" "I Never Work on a Sunday" "Arms of Mary" "The River"

Keith Urban (1999)	"It's a Love Thing" "Your Everything" "But for the Grace of God" "Where the Blacktop Ends"

Golden Road	"Somebody Like You" "Raining on Sunday" "Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me" "You'll Think of Me"

Be Here	"Days Go By" "You're My Better Half" "Making Memories of Us" "Better Life" "Tonight I Wanna Cry"

Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing	"Once in a Lifetime" "Stupid Boy" "I Told You So" "Everybody"

Greatest Hits: 19 Kids	"You Look Good in My Shirt"

Defying Gravity	"Sweet Thing" "Kiss a Girl" "Only You Can Love Me This Way" "'Til Summer Comes Around" "I'm In"

Get Closer	"Put You in a Song" "Without You" "Long Hot Summer" "You Gonna Fly"

Act of Valor: The Album	"For You"

Fuse	"Little Bit of Everything" "Shame" "We Were Us" (with Miranda Lambert) "Cop Car" "Somewhere in My Car" "Raise 'Em Up" (with Eric Church)

Ripcord	"John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16" "Break on Me" "Wasted Time" "Blue Ain't Your Color"

Guest singles	"America the Beautiful" "The Twelfth of Never" (with Dolly Parton) "Funky Tonight" (with The John Butler Trio) "In God's Hands" (with Nelly Furtado) "Start a Band" (with Brad Paisley) "Blue Sky" (with Emily West) "Lean on Me" (with Sheryl Crow and Kid Rock)

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