cert video special. His book was
released about five weeks before
the pandemic hit America and had
a nice run (reaching #1 on Amazon
Music and #2 on Apple iTunes)
before dropping out of the charts
before the virus hit. But the video
version came out on Amazon
Prime in March right as the virus
was beginning to hit America.
“The upside is people were more
home, so it may have gotten more
views than it otherwise would’ve,
but the downside is I didn’t promote
it because it felt tone deaf
given the state of the world,” explained
Ben. “Either way, I put out
albums every couple of years, it’s
more of a ‘body of work’ situation
for me than a ‘this is my big break,’
so I didn’t have any ‘why me?’
type moments about it.”
In July, Ben did his first live show
in four months at The Stress Facto-
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