CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Butch Walker Finds Musical Inspiration in the Ashes of Home

His album, Sycamore Meadows, out next week, is named after the street where the house stood; the video for Ships in a Bottle shows Mr. Walker roaming among the ashes. Butch Walker spent years as a struggling musician before finding success as a singer-songwriter and producer of acts like Avril Lavigne and Katy Perry. Suddenly flush, he moved into a 5,000-square-foot house in Malibu, nearly two years ago, and was planning to buy it, but last November a wildfire destroyed the home, and almost e...

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