Witness
On his new album, the New Orleans-based Benjamin Booker makes retro music feel modern, reflecting on racism in America while drawing on blues, soul, and gospel.
On his new album, the New Orleans-based Benjamin Booker makes retro music feel modern, reflecting on racism in America while drawing on blues, soul, and gospel.
Booker’s music emerges as defiant, insightful and both intimately and communally self-actualizing.
Booker’s music emerges as defiant, insightful and both intimately and communally self-actualizing.
The New Orleans bluesman is back with an adventurous, genre-spanning but somewhat hit-and-miss sophomore LP.
The New Orleans bluesman is back with an adventurous, genre-spanning but somewhat hit-and-miss sophomore LP.
When Benjamin Booker sings, he sounds like a train trying to squeeze through a blocked tunnel.
When Benjamin Booker sings, he sounds like a train trying to squeeze through a blocked tunnel.