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Son of Dave
Benjamin Darvill as Son of Dave in 2017
Background information
Birth name	Benjamin Darvill
Born	(1967-01-04) January 4, 1967 (age 57) Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Origin	London, England
Genres	Rock, folk rock, blues
Occupation(s)	Singer–songwriter, musician
Instrument(s)	Vocals, harmonica, mandolin, guitar, percussion
Years active	1989 – present

Website	Official site

Benjamin Darvill (born January 4, 1967), known by his stage name Son of Dave, is a Canadian musician and singer–songwriter, based in the United Kingdom. He was a member of Grammy award-nominated, Juno award-winning folk rock band Crash Test Dummies in which he played harmonica, mandolin, guitar and percussion before returning to his blues, Beat-Box and harmonica driven solo work in 2000.^[1]

Son of Dave was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was inspired to learn the harmonica after hearing James Cotton and Sonny Terry play at the Winnipeg Folk Festival.^[2]

He moved to London, England, in 1998 and has remained there since.^[3] Son of Dave has recorded six albums to date and performed over eight hundred shows across Europe, as well as performing in Canada, the United States, Australia, South Africa, Uganda, Japan, Russia, and Cuba.

Son of Dave appeared on BBC television's Later...with Jools Holland in 2005, performing the song "Hellhound", before recording the song a few years later on the album O3.

His 2003 album O2 has been described as a mix of "cotton-pickin’ blues, vocalising beat-box, hard-breathing folk, steamy funk and even modern R&B".^[4]

A song from O2, "Devil Take My Soul", which features chorus vocal by Martina Topley-Bird, was featured in the Warner Bros film, License to Wed, starring Robin Williams.

In 2010, the track "Shake A Bone" from the album of the same title, recorded by Steve Albini, was featured on season 3 episode 11 of Breaking Bad.

In 2010, Son of Dave and his song "Revolution Town" were featured in a commercial for the search engine Bing.^[5] The commercial, using a first-person perspective, shows Son of Dave using Bing and his Windows-enabled phone to travel to his own concert at the Someday Lounge in Portland, OR.

In 2016, the track "Voodoo Doll" from the album Shake A Bone was featured as the last song in the first episode of Preacher, an AMC series based on the comic book of the same title.

Discography

Son of Dave

B. Darvill's Wild West Show (1999) Kartel 019
O1 (2000) Kartel 002
O2 (2006) Kartel 003
O3 (2008) Kartel 013
Shake a Bone (2010) Kartel 023
Blues at the Grand (2013) Kartel SOD001
Explosive Hits (2016) Goddamn Records SOD002
Music for Cop Shows (2017) Goddamn Records SOD003
Call Me a Cab (2021) Goddamn Records SOD004
Call Me King (2022) Goddamn Records SOD005

Crash Test Dummies

References

^ "Benjamin Darvill". Xtreme Musician. Retrieved 10 January 2009.
^ Thomas H. Green (4 April 2008). "Son of Dave: a suitcase and a harmonica". The Telegraph. Retrieved 10 January 2009.
^ "Son of Dave". NME. Retrieved 10 January 2009.
^ Daniel Brown (April 2007). "O2". Mondomix. Retrieved 10 January 2009.
^ "YouTube". www.youtube.com. Archived from the original on 9 April 2016. Retrieved 17 January 2022.

External links

Review of 'Ain't Going to Niketown' on the Daily Music Guide
2006 interview with Darvill at BluesinLondon.com
Son of Dave Official Website
Son of Dave's artist page at SEYDEL

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Studio albums	The Ghosts That Haunt Me God Shuffled His Feet A Worm's Life Give Yourself a Hand I Don't Care That You Don't Mind Puss 'n' Boots Songs of the Unforgiven Oooh La La!
Christmas albums	Jingle All the Way
Compilations	The Best of Crash Test Dummies Demo-litions
Singles	"Superman's Song" "The Ghosts That Haunt Me" "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" "Swimming in Your Ocean" "Afternoons & Coffeespoons" "God Shuffled His Feet" "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead" "He Liked to Feel It" "My Own Sunrise" "Keep a Lid on Things" "Get You in the Morning" "And It's Beautiful" "Now You See Her" "Promised Land"
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