Benjamin Booker’s L.A. Punk Chic Style: See His Most Prized Possessions at Home
Benjamin Booker opened for Jack White and became a
festival breakout around the release of his 2014 blues-punk debut LP. After a
long tour, he visited Mexico City. “It was life-changing,” he says of
the monthlong trip, which informed his new album, Witness. Booker keeps
trip mementos at his L.A. home, from a Charles Bukowski T-shirt to a
wood-carved tiger mask he bought from a woman who “must have been 100
years old.” Meanwhile, Booker’s move from New Orleans to Echo Park, where
he relocated to be near his girlfriend, has changed his look: “I had a
funkier style – crazy polka-dot shirts,” he says. “I guess now I’m in
a relaxed, back-to-basics kind of phase.”
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Mask he bought at a Mexico City market while on vacation.
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Seven-inch record he bought on tour.
“If you’re from Florida, this is how everyone
feels.” -
Hat from a ‘Life Aquatic’ store he found in Korea.
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Bukowski T-shirt.
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Frantz Fanon’s ‘The Wretched of the Earth’
“It’s about colonization and the effect that it
has on the colonized.” -
One of Booker’s pins.
“It’s true. There’s a little bit of evil in all
of my favorite bands.” -
His pedal setup.
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His red Les Paul.
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Print by Black Panther artist Emory Douglas.
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Crosley record player.