Video: Benjamin Booker, ‘Have You Seen My Son?’

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Wake up. It’s Friday and Benjamin Booker has the blues-rock tunes to knock you out of your stupor if necessary. The 25-year-old rocker, who just released his debut on ATO Records, will pounce on your ear drums if you let him. Tunes like the urgent “Have You Seen My Son” and the rollicking “Violent Shiver” have people hearing why his musical hero Jack White plucked him from New Orleans to go on tour. His raucous fusion of rock, blues, soul may come in spurts – both his singles are short and sweet – but it’s also energy personified. There’s good and clean verve that comes from Booker’s songs but there’s some bad-boy sentiments sprinkled in there, too, with lyrics like”Fucking up on a five-year bender” and a slew of gnarly guitar solos. His old-school grit that will have you down with smashing things as he does in the Rick Alverson-directed video above.

||| Stream: “Violent Shiver”

||| Live: Benjamin Booker plays Sunday at FYF Fest. 

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