Ben Harper & The Blind Boys of AlabamaBest Ben Harper & The Blind Boys of Alabama Albums Ranked

Both Sides of the Gun

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8.0

“Since he strummed onto the scene from Southern California in 1994 with Welcome to the Cruel World, Ben Harper has lived on what can only be called, twelve years and seven albums later, Planet Ben. For his millions of fans here and around the world, Harper is a natural-born superstar who has operated in the […]”

Get Up!

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7.0

“Ben Harper has been hiding in plain sight for nearly 20 years, delivering handsome hybrid folk blues – sometimes politicized, sometimes heartbroken – in his signature high-tenor whisper, while playing slide guitar with flashes of Hendrixian fire. His version of Americana has often resonated more loudly abroad. But as the Black Keys, Gary Clark Jr. and others move blues back into the mainstream, th”

Give Till It's Gone

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7.0

“The 10th album from slide-guitar master and jam-band darling Ben Harper is his most searingly personal album, an expression, no doubt, of the recent implosion of his marriage to actress Laura Dern. Even the quietest moments on Give Till It’s Gone, like "Pray That Our Love Sees the Dawn," on which Jackson Browne sings harmony, […]”

There Will Be a Light

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6.0

“Ben Harper may be pure of heart in enlisting classic gospel act the Blind Boys of Alabama to collaborate with him on There Will Be a Light, but even the Blind Boys’ graceful voices can’t wholly redeem the jammy date-rock icon’s platitudinous lyrics ("Take My Hand") and his generic barrelhouse-blues arrangements ("Wicked Man"). The traditional, […]”

Live from Mars

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6.0

“Ben Harper has never been afraid of showing off his influences, and this generous live set is no exception. On the electric band jams on Disc One and solo acoustic turns on Disc Two, it’s no secret when he’s channeling Jeff Buckley’s otherworldly rock ("Woman in You"), Cat Stevens’ Elizabethan folk ("Pleasure and Pain"), the […]”