Ben is a brilliant musician, luthier, band leader, artist, activist, and all-around personality from Hood River. Ben’s guitar playing is rooted in the music of pre-radio America when all music was live and styles weren’t pigeonholed. Like his favorite musicians from the 1920s, Ben’s range comfortably spans genres-on any given night you might catch him playing country blues, ragtime, vintage swing, Delta blues, folk, jazz, old-time country, and Hawaiian.