Benjamin Booker - Violent Shiver (Live at The Current)

It’s an oversimplified scenario often depicted on television or in films: A record executive goes to a gig, hears a kid who shows promise and offers that kid a contract on the spot. But such things don’t happen in real life, right? For Benjamin Booker, it did: Booker and his friend, drummer Max Norton, were playing a show in Florida. On a tip generated by blogs and satellite-radio airplay, ATO Records General Manager Jon Salter flew down to Florida. At the end of the 30-minute set, Booker was