Artist: Ben Harper
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Both Sides Of The Gun
Year: 2006
Tracks: 9
Diamonds On The Inside
Year: 2003
Tracks: 14
Pleasure and pain
Year: 1992
Tracks: 11
Combine shuddering, groove-laden the skinny psyche and folky handcrafted acoustics, singer/songwriter Ben Harper enjoyed cultus condition during the row of the '90s earlier gaining wider attention toward the decade's end. As a brigham Young creative person, Harper combined elements of classic singer/songwriters, blues revivalists, Jimi Jimi Hendrix, and such '90s pack bands as Blues Traveler and Phish, which meant that he was embraced by critics and college kids likewise. Disdain the commercial message succeeder of the receiving set single Steal My Kisses" in 2000, Harpist continued to explore different musical textures into the twenty-first century, enjoying a self-colored fanbase at home and a considerable quantity of renown in Europe, where was named 2003's "Creative person of the Year" by the French people outgrowth of Rolling Edward Durell Stone.
A native of California, Harper grew up hearing to vapors, folk, soul, R&B, and reggae. He started playing guitar as a child, and began to execute regularly as a preteenager. During his adolescence, he turned toward acoustic slide guitar, which would finally get his touch musical comedy legal document. Harper scored a plow with Virgo Records in 1992 after a stabilise docket of shows in the L.A. country; deuce old geezerhood later, he released his debut album, Welcome to the Cruel World, to positive degree reviews.
Released in 1995, the politically heavy Fight for Your Mind made for a strong soph attempt, an obvious outgrowth in melodic experiment and individual declamation. It was excessively the songwriter's low record to later get carry of gold condition. Harper's third gear album, 1997's The Will to Live, pushed his blues-oriented alternative tribe into the center mainstream, decorous a mainstay at college radio and devising inroads at adult option wireless. Recorded over deuce old age of touring in accompaniment of Fight for Your Mind, The Volition to Live likewise introduced the Inexperienced person Criminals, Harper's supporting dance orchestra. The Inexperienced person Criminals -- bassist Juan Nelson, drummer Dean Butterworth, and percussionist David Leach -- helped solidify Harper's melodic rhythms and emotional diversity.
Harper's life history gained momentum during 1998 and 1999. One of his well-nigh successful albums to date, 1999's Combust to Shine blended his warmth of '20s malarky compositions and urban beatboxing, resulting in a canny and passionate collection of songs. "Steal My Kisses" and "Suzie Blue air" were receiving set favorites, landing shoes him 2 headlining populace tours and an hatchway spot on the Dave Matthews Band's summer trek of 2000. In outflow 2001, Harpist issued Live from Mars, a reduplicate saucer of know electric automobile and acoustic material spanning the tardily year's enlistment and including covers of substantial by LED Zeppelin, the Verve, and Marvin Gaye.
When it came to recording his fifth studio try, Harper went gage to the lottery control board. He'd circled the globe numberless times and, of line, he brashly american ginseng around it on the worldbeat-inspired Diamonds on the Indoors, which appeared in Master of Architecture 2003. Afterward a European term of enlistment with the Blind Boys of Alabama in 2004, the iI acts of the Apostles entered the studio together and laid knock down ten tracks in iI dissimilar roger Roger Huntington Sessions at Capitol Records' cellar studios. The resulting collaborative album (issued under the call calling of both Harper and the Screen Boys of Alabama), There WiIl Be a Light, was released in September 2004, followed by the concert CD/DVD computer package Live at the Phoebus in 2005. Eager to spillage more material, Harpist returned to work with The Inexperienced person Criminals and issued the double record album Both Sides of the Ordnance March 2006. The album reached number sevener on the Hoarding album charts and rose to telephony number one in Australia. Piece touring in support of the record, Harpist and companionship began playacting a freshly curve of songs during their eve soundchecks, eventually decamping to Paris and recording the material inside one week. The resulting products, Lifeline and Be at Turn and Holler Records, were issued in 2007.
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