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Benjamin Booker
Solo artist Virginia Beach
Benjamin Booker is an artist from Virginia Beach. Benjamin Booker has 21 chart appearances on 20 radio countdowns from 11 stations on RockLists, spanning 2014–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Violen Shiver”, which appears on 16 lists with a best position of #15. The station that charted Benjamin Booker most often is The Current (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN), with 4 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2014.
Benjamin Booker, born Benjamin Roderick Evans in 1989 and counting the Gun Club, Blind Willie Johnson and T. Rex among his influences, is a singer, songwriter and guitarist who plays garage rock like it's a fever he's trying to sweat out. You can hear all three of those heroes in there: the Gun Club's punk-blues menace, Blind Willie's holy-roller grit and T. Rex's glam boogie, jammed together and cranked until the needles jump.
"Violent Shiver" is the calling card, a wiry, frantic rave-up with Booker's ragged voice shredding itself over a guitar that never stops churning. On Witness, released on ATO in 2017, he widened the frame: the title track slows to a heavy, soulful stomp, and the whole record trades some of the frenzy for weight.
Critics have reached for words like raw, frenzied and explosive to pin him down. They're not wrong.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Benjamin Booker on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Violen Shiver | 16 | #15 | – | 2014 | |
| 2 | Witness | 3 | #33 | – | 2017 | |
| 3 | Show and Tell | 1 | #54 | – | 2025 | |
| 4 | Spoonful | 1 | #767 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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