Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals Call It What It Is 12/08/2017 at the time

at the time

Released: 1/27/17

The Fair brothers have written more songs than The Rolling Stones and Beatles combined

Each track title is a conceptual work in it's own right

The Great Escape Festival in Brighton

Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals Call It What It Is 12/08/2017 at the timeIt took Ben Harper nine years to reconvene the Innocent Criminals for 2016's Call It What It Is, but that's not necessarily an abnormally long time for this crew: eight years separated its 2007 predecessor Lifeline from their 1999 debut, Burn to Shine. Harper formed the Innocent Criminals partially with the intention that they'd be his Band of Gypsies, a support system for him to indulge in his Jimi Hendrix daydreams, but they wound up being an even