He's a one-man Alabama 3, a wild lonesome fusion of wild and soulful vocal-patterns over rhythm-and-blues New Orleans riffs; man, it's hard to imagine anything more downright earthy and damn funky - just check out his amazing version of War's Low Rider. Unbelievable! Fuelled by vocal beat-boxing, foot stomping and improvised percussion this blues dervish blasts away on a harmonica, foot hammering a wooden percussion board and a rattled shaker going like the blazes. It's fair to say that Son of Dave - AKA Canadian musician Benjamin Darvill - isn't your average pub-circuit bluesman, every inch the tailored Forties film noir heartthrob villain. "When you're young, the old blues songs seem two-dimensional, not real," he says, "But once all those things come true - you fall downstairs, have illegitimate children, get the clap, wake up in jail..." And with two wild bands in support, this is one heckuva night ...

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