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Son Of Dave

Son of Dave is a one-man band starring Benjamin Darvill, a 21st century bluesman who makes music that fuses the past and the present. Son of Dave is a man in a vintage suit with a harmonica who shouts, stomps, and howls the blues but uses a sampler to loop human beatbox-style rhythm patterns that give his country-blues-influenced tunes the gritty groove of contemporary funk and hip-hop. Darvill had already enjoyed a successful career in blues, folk, and pop before debuting the Son of Dave persona with the 1999 self-released album B. Darvill's Wild West Show. Since then, he's toured the world and released a steady stream of recordings of his rough and ready music, with 2010's Shake a Bone (recorded in Chicago), 2017's Music for Cop Shows (a title referring to the presence of his music on television series like Breaking Bad and Preacher) and 2024's A Flat City all documenting his ability to make the most out of his minimal setup. Benjamin Darvill was born on January 4, 1967, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. After seeing blues legends James Cotton and Sonny Terry perform at a folk festival, Darvill was inspired to learn to play harmonica, and he would later add guitar and mandolin to his arsenal. After years of refining his playing blues joints and biker hangouts, Darvill's career took an important turn in 1988 when he joined the folk-influenced Canadian alternative rock band Crash Test Dummies, playing guitar, mandolin, harmonica, and percussion. The group's debut album, 1991's The Ghosts That Haunt Me, was a major commercial success in their native Canada, and 1993's God Shuffled His Feet broke them big in America when the song "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" became a surprise hit, climbing to number four on the Hot 100 Singles Chart. In 1998, while the band was on hiatus, Darvill left Canada and relocated to London, England; the same year, he started formulating his Son of Dave act. Looking for a way to make a solo vocal/harmonica performance more exciting, he discovered the Akai Headrush, an effects pedal that made it easy to loop bits of sound on the spot. Using the Headrush, Darvill would create funk-influenced vocal patterns and use them as a backing track as he sang and blew harp over them, with an amplified stomp board added to help him keep rhythm with his feet. After playing a run of live shows, he became the first member of the Crash Test Dummies to issue a solo album with 1999's B. Darvill's Wild West Show. (It would be reissued digitally in 2008 under the title Son of Dave's Wild West Show.) In 2000, Darvill left the Crash Test Dummies and made Son of Dave his main project, releasing his second LP, 01, that year through his own Husky Records label. As his energetic shows helped Darvill gain a larger following, he took his Son of Dave show all over the world, playing in North America, Europe, and more exotic locales such as Lebanon, Uganda, South Africa, and Russia. He signed with the British Kartel label, who reissued 01 and brought out his third LP, 02, in 2006. The album included vocals from Martina Topley-Bird, known for her work with Tricky and Massive Attack, and one of the tracks, "Devil Take My Soul," was used in the Robin Williams comedy License to Wed. 2008's 03 found Son of Dave putting his own spin on War's "Low Rider" and Taj Mahal's "Squat That Rabbit," as well as rewriting Muddy Waters' classic "I Just Want to Make Love to You" as "I Just Wanna Get High with You." In 2009, Darvill added guest harmonica to Sort of Revolution by Fink, and the following year, he traveled to Chicago to record Shake a Bone, with Steve Albini recording and mixing the sessions. It included the song "Voodoo Doll," which would later be used in the premier episode of the cable drama Preacher, while the title track was heard in a Season Three episode of Breaking Bad. 2013's Blues at the Grand saw Son of Dave recording with a full band for the first time, including drummer Joey Waronker, who had previously worked with R.E.M. and Smashing Pumpkins. 2016's Explosive Hits was a collection of covers, with Darvill interpreting artists as diverse as Iggy Pop, Robert Johnson, AC/DC, and Technotronic. Son of Dave was back to writing his own songs and playing them by himself on 2017's Music for Cop Shows, and on 2021's Call Me a Cab, Darvill produced and engineered the sessions himself, while also leading the studio band on keyboards for a set of jazzy numbers. Son of Dave took on a more familiar style for his fans on 2022's Call Me King, focusing on his harmonica work and reflecting the influence of New Orleans blues and R&B. For 2024's A Flat City, Son of Dave returned to the elemental one-man attack of Shake a Bone, with harmonica and stomp box dominating the arrangements.
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