release brought pop-punk as a genre back into public consciousness. Many of the songs that he co-wrote or produced have been hits for other artists, including SR-71, Avril Lavigne, Sevendust, Injected, The Donnas, Hot Hot Heat, American Hi-Fi, Default, Gob, Midtown, Puffy AmiYumi, Pink, Katy Perry, Pete Yorn, Quietdrive, Green Day, Adam Lambert, Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20, Rayland Baxter, Kevin Griffin of Better Than Ezra, Train, The Wallflowers, Jewel, The All-American Rejects, The Academy Is..., The Cab, Saosin, Never Shout Never, Weezer, New Politics, Fall Out Boy, The Struts, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, August is Falling, Matt Nathanson, and Elizabeth Cook. Documentary film The documentary Out of Focus premiered at the Nashville Film Festival in April 2012. Directed by Shane Valdés and Peter Harding, it focuses on Butch Walker's life and music. Its first European showing was at Oldenburg Filmfest, Germany in August 2012. Personal life In November 2007, Walker and his family lost all of their possessions, including the master recordings to every song he had ever recorded, when the Malibu home he was renting from Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers burned down as a result of a wildfire in Southern California. He titled his next album Sycamore Meadows after the street the house was on. He currently lives in Nashville, TN with his wife and son. Butch is an ordained minister in the state of Ohio. At a concert September 7, 2016, at the House of Blues in Cleveland, Ohio, Butch climbed off the stage and into the crowd to marry a couple live before the end of the show. Discography Studio albums Live and other albums This Is Me... Justified and Stripped (2004) Acoustic: Live In Atlanta (2005) Leavin' the Game on Luckie Street (2008) Over the Holidays and Under the Influence (2017) #20 Heatseekers American Love Story: Live & Quarantined (2021) EPs Heartwork (2004) Cover Me Badd (2005) Live at Lollapalooza 2008 (2008) Here Comes The... EP (2009) Peachtree Battle (2013) #127 US, #3 Heatseekers End of the World (One More Time) / Battle vs. The War (2014) Cassette Backs (2016) DVDs This Is Me... Justified and Stripped (2003) Live at Budokan (2005) Leavin' the Game on Luckie Street (2008) Butch Walker: Out of Focus (2013) Book Drinking with Strangers: Music Lessons from a Teenage Bullet Belt (2011) Featured In "One Tree Hill (soundtrack)" by various artists (2005) "You're Crashing, But You're