Benjamin Booker: NPR Music Field Recordings
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- It wouldn't be an overstatement to suggest that New Orleans singer-songwriter Benjamin Booker had a pretty good summer. Even before releasing his debut album last month, Booker's gravelly voice and bluesy swagger had guitar fans buzzing with anticipation. It didn't hurt that he'd nabbed a gig touring as the opening act for Jack White, one of his idols.
With a borrowed acoustic guitar, Booker joined us outside one of the secluded secret tunnels in the heart of Fort Adams State Park after his set at this year's Newport Folk Festival. While we were setting up for this Field Recording, Booker offhandedly mentioned that a few years prior, he'd applied to become an NPR Music intern. He didn't get that gig, but he told us that missing out spurred his desire to explore another side of his passion for music.
Even after his tuner took an ill-fated tumble down an ancient drainage pipe, Booker found a way to perform his new single, "Have You Seen My Son?" --SAIDAH BLOUNT
SET LIST
"Have You Seen My Son"
CREDITS
Producers: Mito Habe-Evans, Saidah Blount; Videographers: Mito Habe-Evans, Colin Marshall, Nick Michael; Audio Engineer: Kevin Wait; Special Thanks: Newport Folk Festival/Jay Sweet, Mark and Rachel Dibner of the Argus Fund, and our partners: WFUV, Folk Alley, MVY Radio; Executive Producer: Anya Grundmann.
If anyone is wondering, the tuning is: Drop Down The Drain
Everything about this video is great. The performance...unique voice...and the filming.
Everything about you is great.
I think the Mic is a little to small and not fluffy enough :)
Leti Renee worth it.
I was lucky enough to see this guy live at a music festival that I went to and I thought it was awesome that after he played he walked around and talked to a couple of people. I was lucky enough to get to meet him as well.
omg, his voice its like blues all over the place, i'm like shivers OMG OMG OMG
I wasn't expecting such a big voice. Great!
Just saw him & his band here in New Orleans (his hometown!) at a club during Jazzfest - he blew the doors off the place!! Part if the reason I keep coming here; finding great music like this every year - also saw a great band the next night.....The London Souls, from NYC
houndmouth blasting from the stage in the beginning made this even better
+gettinnapkins Saw them both...it was a great day.....
He's got Soul from his fingers to his toes!
Best music I've heard in a long time.
what a voice!
T-shirt with the inscription in Russian, "Mom I'm sorry" :)
Thanks for the translation, i was wondering what it said. :D
55markinator55
gladly :)
Alexey Bitkin He wore the same shirt when he performed later that day...and of course he killed it...
omg!
Found him through a comment of Hozier. So glad. He's unique, softly visceral, love him!
Best music new music I've heard all year. Maybe, many years.
Мама, Прости)))) Great performance!!!!
Singer/songwriter with the most soul I 've seen in a long, long while.
Absolutely love this and the fact that this was going on behind a live performance is really cool
i love his music. love it even more live, but that smile - sheesh
his voice in this performance reminds me of Louis Armstrong meets Conor Oberst
goodness, he's beautiful
A standout...for sure :)
Beautiful
FUAAA....QUE BELLEZA...QUE ABRAZO AL ALMA...UNA VOZ DE OTRO PORTAL Y TODO EL BLUES DE ROBERTH JHONSON...INSPIRATIVO...MUCHAS GRACIAS DESDE MENDOZA argentina
Yes,Yes.Yes, Beautiful my brother ......
Saw him open for Jack White this year. Holy crap he's a gem. Amazing live show with just a three person band.
Now this is music.
Would love a Benjamin booker tiny desk!!!
good stuff!!!!
Kudos to who ever filmed this .
The difference between this and his actual music style is insane.
WOW!
Is this where they filmed the last episode of true detective? Haha
+asano aiken EXACTLY what I was thinking
yesss !!!
respect. x
genio
You all may have seen that location in the final episode of True Detective.
Got damn.
😻😻😻😻😻
ya
hes ok.......hes got that dylan thing...you know,.. leave em in a spellbound way
im not sure what i just saw
that as rad....
+Lolas Artstore I love how Houndmouth is in the faint background
if anyone know any artist similar let me know ! I have heard nothing like this
+Derek Wright hmm benjamin clementine?
ohhhh 0:40 :-)
Thick Voice!
Tiny Desk
anyone know what pickup/guitar he's using
Epiphone version of Gibson Hummingbird (etc) proprietary (quack quack) pickup
I apologize UA-cam jumped from previous video to this.....
Any one know the tuning for this?
Tadhg O Connell pretty sure it's just standard, the songs pretty much just A D and E if I'm not mistaken
Drop down the drain tuning
nice mumbling
so... he lost his capo? lol
He made me laugh when he lost his capo in the gutter and in my depressed state I appreciate a little joy from his music ...pure "Soul "...someday he may compose the song " Don't waste your capo (in the getter)"...from this story...no?...
*****
Oh!...no!...was the "Clip on Guitar Tuner"...laughs!...
It sounds like he is inhaling when he sings
And He's Black!!!!!!!!!!!! Glad to see a black artist that's actually good in a white genre . (Not that color matters but you get my drift)
he sings blues, soul, and rock all which are Black American genres of music...mostly all popular American music genres were created by black people.
tanneranner I know that but in today's world its white dominated (Maybe not soul) but for the most part it is white dominated industry.
+SimbaRyan oh no doubt, but it's always been that way. black people didn't create the music industry. the music industry is an invention to further white people's profit of off black skillls. but the music is ours. the creativity is ours. everyone else is building from the emulation of our talent.
+tanneranner "the music is ours. the creativity is ours. everyone else is building from the emulation of OUR talent"... do you know what that sounds like?
Don't get me wrong, most of the great music of the past century has been a product of the American black man. But that doesn't grant ownership. Music is eternal, brother. Forgive me, but your attitude is wack.
+Max _ I'm not your brother. music is a community, our community which other people have pillaged and then profited from. so if we're talking about ownership black people aren't the ones you need to be talking about. we've shared, and others have stolen.
Unique voice? Unique mumbling! How can anyone listen to and watch all of this? Very painful for me.
Mark Hunter You look like a gay guy who's trying to hide it.
Mark Hunter Gay trolls don't belong anywhere. You can have no credibility against a Puritan.
marc gabourie mad??????????????
2016
terrible.....there, I said it.
and no one cared