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Artist: Benjamin Booker
Album: Benjamin Booker
Bitrate: 229kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Rough Trade / ATO
Genre: Rock
Size: 77.00 megs
PlayTime: 0h 44min 20sec total
Rip Date: 2014-08-16
Store Date: 2014-08-15
Track List:
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01. Violent Shiver 2:46
02. Always Waiting 2:19
03. Chippewa 3:14
04. Slow Coming 4:31
05. Wicked Waters 3:27
06. Have You Seen My Son? 5:07
07. Spoon Out My Eyeballs 3:03
08. Happy Homes 4:34
09. I Thought I Heard You Screaming 3:04
10. Old Hearts 2:50
11. Kids Never Growing Older 5:35
12. By The Evening 3:50
Release Notes:
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You could take new Rough Trade charge Benjamin Booker as an open book:
bourbon-drenched vocals, thrift-store chic and a New Orleans base on the banks
of the Mississippi. His debut lives and breathes the Deep South, from the Chuck
Berry references (most effective on opener 'Violent Shiver') to the slower, more
hushed tones of 'I Thought I Heard You Screaming', which sees Booker take his
It's also something of a love affair with the guitar, with Booker and his band
firing off Zep-style grandiosity ('Have You Seen My Son?'), proper Bolan pomp
classic 'Twenty Flight Rock'. The best song here though, is 'Old Hearts', which
into 2014, gnarly and gloriously unrepentant.
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