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Son of Dave makes music that fuses the past and the present, as a man in a vintage suit with a harmonica 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. Son of Dave is a one-man band starring Benjamin Darvill, who had previously won an international following playing guitar and mandolin with the Canadian alternative pop band Crash Test Dummies. When Crash Test Dummies briefly relocated from Winnipeg, Manitoba, to London, England, Darvill found himself in a new city with some time on his hands, and he began working up a solo project. Darvill had frequently played harmonica with Crash Test Dummies and decided to explore his interest in blues; looking for a way to make a solo vocal/harmonica performance more interesting, he discovered the Akai Headrush, an effects pedal that made it easy to loop bits of sound on the spot. Using the Headrush, D...