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I guess I would call my music blues punk. Theres a lot of influences.
Benjamin Booker / Singer-Songwriter
Influence
Punk
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I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences.
Benjamin Booker / Singer-Songwriter
Punk
Blues
Influences
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I've grown up on gospel and blues music, and now it's a huge part of who I am.
Benjamin Booker / Singer-Songwriter
Gospel
Blues
Grown
Huge Part
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Ive been making music since I was 14, but for a while, I was afraid to perform.
Benjamin Booker / Singer-Songwriter
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You have to have some kind of clarity or understanding of what's happening to write.
Benjamin Booker / Singer-Songwriter
Clarity
Understanding
Writing
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I dont think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.
Benjamin Booker / Singer-Songwriter
Journalist
Thinking
Wanted
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Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.
Benjamin Booker / Singer-Songwriter
Band
Song
Writing
Anybody Else
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You will never have the answers, but you have to keep pushing yourself and keep reading and keep working on yourself.
Benjamin Booker / Singer-Songwriter
Push Yourself
Reading
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I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. Thats it.
Benjamin Booker / Singer-Songwriter
Band
Guitar
Sound
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I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. That's it.
Benjamin Booker / Singer-Songwriter
Music Lover
Lover
Redding
Strapped
Wondered
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There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people.
Benjamin Booker / Singer-Songwriter
Journalism
Skills
Good World People
Interact
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My sister is an opera singer. I grew up going to her recitals. This whole time, I'm like, 'She's the singer. I'm just strumming along and yelling.'
Benjamin Booker / Singer-Songwriter
Sister
Opera
Yelling
Singer
Opera Singer
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My grandfather learned to swim in the Navy by getting thrown off a boat into the ocean. He had to learn fast. And I think I learn pretty well under pressure.
Benjamin Booker / Singer-Songwriter
Ocean
Boat
Grandfather
Navy
Swim
Thrown
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I hope that I can make music that helps people in some way or that they can connect with, and that I can just live a life where I'm surrounded by people that I love.
Benjamin Booker / Singer-Songwriter
Helping
Just Live
People
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Life is short, so I am one of those people - and luckily my girlfriend is too - who wants to live everywhere. I don't know how long I'll be there, but I like it right now.
Benjamin Booker / Singer-Songwriter
Girlfriend
Life Is Short
Long
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Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future for myself and was terrified about what was happening to the people around me.
Benjamin Booker / Singer-Songwriter
Rough
Terrified
Struggled
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Folk-punk artists like This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb or Paul Baribeau were popular in the Florida punk community. I saw people early on combine roots music with more aggressive music.
Benjamin Booker / Singer-Songwriter
Aggressive
Bike
Florida
Pipe
Punk
Roots
Bomb
Combine
Paul
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New Orleans style is funky - it's just as experimental as the city. There aren't any rules. If you want to wear a polka-dot shirt and some crazy pants, you can get away with it there.
Benjamin Booker / Singer-Songwriter
Funky
New Orleans
Pants
Experimental
Orleans
Shirt
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Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.
Benjamin Booker / Singer-Songwriter
Blind
Combination
Delicate
Harsh
Influence
Johnson
Stuff I Like
Vocal
Vulnerable
Slip
Soft
Willie
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In 2012, I started writing songs - not for the world to hear, but for certain people I needed to talk to. My family, we were not big communicators. I had a hard time talking to people in general.
Benjamin Booker / Singer-Songwriter
Communicators
Time Family World
Family Time World
Hard Time
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It's not enough to have good intentions. If you want to be a good person, you have to make good decisions all the time and live a life that's worth living and that you can be proud of, and that's what I wanted.
Benjamin Booker / Singer-Songwriter
Decision
Good Intentions
Proud
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I went to school in Gainesville because it was a huge punk and folk town. So I went to class twice a week, and then I went to shows and wrote. I did a lot of music writing before I actually started playing music.
Benjamin Booker / Singer-Songwriter
Punk
Twice
Folk
Twice A Week
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The time after college and before music was really rough. I couldn't afford food. I was eating bread and butter for five months. Living in New Orleans, I couldn't afford to take care of myself. I had no health insurance.
Benjamin Booker / Singer-Songwriter
Bread
New Orleans
Rough
Take Care
Afford
Butter
Health Insurance
Insurance
Orleans
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I think everybody that grows up in Florida, you've got a little chip on your shoulder. It's not as bad as people think it is, but it's pretty bad. When you go to other places you're just like, "Oh, god. What was that about?"
Benjamin Booker / Singer-Songwriter
Growing Up
People
Thinking
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As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain type of music. I want to take these blues melodies over aggressive guitars. I heard the sound I wanted to make. I knew what I wanted to do. It wasn't ever there before.
Benjamin Booker / Singer-Songwriter
Aggressive
Music Vision Me
Batch
Blues
Guitars
Melodies
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I hardly ever go back to Florida. It's really hard to go back. I mean, I hated it so much. I didn't grow up in a great neighborhood, and it puts me back in that feeling of, "I want to get out immediately." That was kind of the push and what still pushes me, that I don't want to end up back there.
Benjamin Booker / Singer-Songwriter
Feelings
Growing Up
Mean
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I realized that the reason why my head was so cluttered and why I was so unstable and not taking care of myself, all of these things, was that I was unhappy. If I wanted to get to a happier place and find some kind of peace, I was going to have to address problems with myself, things from my life up until that point that I hadn't dealt with: insecurities, fears, and those kinds of things.
Benjamin Booker / Singer-Songwriter
Care
Insecurity
Unhappy
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