![]() ![]() If you're like me, she'll often make you smile or laugh. Her whole demeanor and presentation approach performance art (but in a good and genuine way).ĭespite Elizabeth's obviously heartfelt wistfulness, listening to her sing is the opposite of depressing. ![]() She brings to her work an archivist's love of authentic clothing. She strives to be faithful not only to a period's music but also to its look. (Her MySpace name, winslowhealthandhygieneseries, should give you some indication of her preoccupations.) The antiquarian and documentarian impulses she pursues began as a bulwark against her fear of a (hypothetical) onset of dementia, as if Elizabeth wanted to leave herself clues she could use to mentally piece herself back together. Affectation just doesn't seem to be in her nature. The sorrow you'll hear in that voice is real, not forced or fake, and Elizabeth's love of the past is in no sense a pose. ![]() And how wouldn't songs of melancholy, mayhem, and murderwhether plaintive blues or Appalachian murder ballads and death songsbe augmented by the agreeable incongruity of a guileless, honey-caramel voice? Though her repertoire shows a strong mindfulness of mortality, she never comes across as morbid. Vocal histrionics are often passed off as soulfulness, but at the heart of Elizabeth's plain-tone singing you'll recognize genuine passion. But this ain't your "I Gave My Love A Cherry"-type stuff. Some people react to folk musicor even to the mere term itselfas if if they'd like to re-enact Belushi's response in Animal House. One part Bonnie Parker, one part Maybelle Carter, two parts Addie Pray (or, as a friend more concisely described her, "the adorable singer girl with the shotgun"): that's Elizabeth Butters.Įlizabeth performs mostly traditional and folk songs, but has an untaught (and probably unlearnable) ability to take old sounds, make them sound new, then make them sound old all over again, by threading them through her own identity, which is deeply rooted in the past. "I feel that there's a little bit of hope in acknowledging the sad aspects of life." ≾lizabeth Butters Tarantino chose to cast Butters in the Oscar-nominated film after seeing her performance on the ABC series, and her portrayal of Trudi earned her critical acclaim.Official home page of folk singer Elizabeth Buttersīuy Elizabeth's LP, Folk blues for Appalachian dulcimer and guitar After appearing on American Housewife, the 11-year-old was tapped to play Trudi Fraser, a child actress, in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. ![]() But why, exactly, did Butters exit?Īccording to Deadline, Butters' departure from the show largely stemmed from her newfound stardom and numerous opening doors in the industry. That is because Julia Butters, the 11-year-old actress who portrayed Anna-Kat throughout the series' first four seasons, has left American Housewife, with 13-year-old actress Giselle Eisenberg taking her place. While the ABC comedy series returned to TV screens on Wednesday night, the face of Katie and Greg Otto's 10-year-old daughter, Anna-Kat, was not all that familiar. Viewers tuning into American Housewife Season 5 will notice that the Otto family looks a little bit different. ![]()
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