Benjamin Booker – Witness (CD)
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Benjamin Booker emerged from New Orleans with a raw, guitar-driven sound that drew from blues, punk, and soul in ways that felt genuinely urgent. On Witness, he pushes deeper into that emotional territory, and landing Mavis Staples on the title track is no small thing, connecting his work to a civil rights-era lineage of music that demands to be heard.
Witness is the highly anticipated follow-up to Benjamin Booker's critically acclaimed self-titled debut album. The album's ten new, original tracks were all written by Booker, produced by Sam Cohen (Kevin Morby) and mixed by Shawn Everett (Alabama Shakes), and the title track features a guest vocal from Mavis Staples.
'I wanted to make a record about the things in my life I never wanted to talk about. It's a record about self-exploration, about learning to love yourself and opening yourself up to love others, about choosing the kind of person you want to be, about confronting death and appreciating life. Really it's about trying to take control from the perspective of someone who has come very close on several occasions to losing ALL control.' - Benjamin Booker
Tracklist
UPC: 880882296926
Label: ATO Records
Release Date: 6.2.17
Format: CD