20080217 Ben Musser of Benyaro, Metro Coffee House, Savannah GA

On my first visit to lovely Savannah, Georgia, I found in the February 17, 2008 music listing of Connect Savannah an intriguing description of a group performing at Savannah's Metro Coffee House. The listing described "Benyaro. Up-and-coming Brooklyn-based acoustic folk/rock/Americana act featuring a real-life brother and sister that's drawing comparisons to - get this - Three Dog Night and Poco, as well as CSN&Y (mainly due to their heavenly vocal harmonies and laid-back country-into-rock arrangements). They call it 'salt country,' but anyway you cut it, this is agrarian soul music." I offered to take some shots and low-resolution video clips when I met the kind lead, Ben Musser, who played solo. I didn't hear Poco or the other groups in him, but nevertheless enjoyed the music. Ben is quite talented - he sings, plays guitar, and with one and sometimes both legs, plays percussion - all at the same time! Visit Benyaro on their MySpace page. (I have some .wav audio files from the performance, as well.) All photographs here copyright ©2008 by Dilip Barman of Vibrant Memories Photography. All rights reserved. Permission is granted for noncommercial usage, including downloading and printing.