About Butler Music Group
Based in Nashville, Tennessee, Butler Music Group provides professional management services to Southern Gospel and Bluegrass artists including the Williamsons, Old Time Preachers Quartet, Barry Rowland & Deliverance, Heaven's Mountain Band, and the Marksmen Quartet.
They also provide consulting services for Bob Sellers, the Marksmen Qt, Heart2Heart, Cheri Taylor, and more.
BMG subsidiary, Family Music Group, is the label and radio promotion division of BMG. Label artists include Williamsons, Heart2Heart, the Old Time Preachers Qt, Barry Rowland and Deliverance, and the Marksmen Quartet. Over the last 40 years, radio Promotion artists have included Canton Junction, David Phelps, Goodman Revival, Ivan Parker, Guy Penrod, the Hagees, Jimmy Fortune, Oak Ridge Boys, Booth Brothers, Dunaways, Larry Gatlin, and many others.
Les Butler has been actively involved in Southern Gospel Music for 43 years as a musician, producer, manager, former publisher of the Singing News, and as a nationally syndicated radio host. Butler started Butler Music Group in 1978 and purchased Family Music Group in 2003. He is a past March of Dimes AIR award winner, as well as a recipient of the Paul Heil Broadcasting Award in 2011. Butler's syndicated radio show, Les Butler and Friends, is heard across America and abroad. Butler's playing and production credits include Palmetto State Quartet, Darryl Worley, Richard Sterban, Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers, Fairfield Four, Steeles, Dunaways, Crabb Family, Easter Brothers, Marksmen Quartet, Earl Scruggs, Bowling Family, Jimmy Fortune, Marty Raybon, Larry Gatlin, and many more. Butler's publishing companies are Hurry-Up Publishing/BMI and Hush Jean/ASCAP. Check out his Live with Les Facebook page and his very active, REAL Southern Gospel YouTube Channel.
