​Benny Bleu (from the album When I Am a Fossil

​Benny Bleu (from the album When I Am a Fossil

​Benny Bleu (from the album When I Am a Fossil available on Benjamin Daniel Haravitch Music) (by Danny McCloskey)
The sway of Cajun rhythms moves Benny Bleu smoothly into the story he tells in the title track to his recent release, When I Am a Fossil. He describes his life, present and past, professional and personal, as he balances his own life in the clear-eyed world-view of the song “When I Am a Fossil”. With a richly toned vocal, the words of Benny Bleu become the guide for the album while the musical backing finds footing in a variety of styles, the musician becoming a blender of Americana-generated music. His banjo is the foundation for the man telling of a hard-lived life in “I’ve Endured” as the groove for “All I Want to Be” wiggles across the rhythms of a off-center beat.
Benny Bleu is a hyphenate talent with dual talents: a banjo-playing singer-songwriter and a geologist. While the paths seem separate in theory, Benny connects the dots into one line, a powerfully woven thread that binds a man devoted to solo actions, whether the task is digging in the earth or pulling a story out of words and music. When I Am a Fossil partners the two diverse mediums when Benny Blue inserts his history with geology into his songs; a natural world overview encompassing the earth-focused staging in his tales.
Becoming the center-stone for the meeting of traditional and modern revisions of string band music, When I Am a Fossil quiets the accompaniment so the voice steering the story of “Abbey Lovely” can tell its tale. Hushed banjo notes flicker and flutter around the entry to “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” on a cover of Cannonball Adderly while When I Am a Fossil while a DIY life-hack for 2026 is spoken in the words that stich “Serenity Song” into a life lesson. A fiddle is the piper that leads “March of the Mollusk” as Benny Bleu sings a song for “Penny’s Farm” as he tenderly plucks notes that drift across the assured groove of “Old Dog”. (by Danny McCloskey)
 
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