Brendan Benson is a band.
Sure, it’s also the man’s name. But as he wrote the songs that would become his dazzling new CD, “THE ALTERNATIVE TO LOVE” he never stopped imagining the two guitarists trading licks, the back-up singer adding harmonies, the bass drum booming through his spine -- never mind that he does all that stuff himself. Brendan Benson is a one-man band, but, he says, "band is the operative word."
He's neither a singer-songwriter (though of course his music is impeccably constructed and observed) nor a simple...
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