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 t...