做为The Raconteurs的灵魂人物，Brendan Benson一直都没有闲暇的时间，总给人的感觉是一直在埋头做音乐，2008年《Consolers of the Lonely》发行过后，Brendan Benson 又为人们带来了他个人的第四张专辑《My Old Familiar Friend 》，其他个人的专辑历史可以追寻到1996年，那时还没有The Raconteurs，而优秀的Brendan Benson就在1996年发行了个人的第一张专辑《One Mississippi 》，结着是组建了The Mood Elevator乐队，随着乐队发行了俩张专辑，一张是2000年的《Listen Up!》和2003年的《Married Alive 》，这期间Brendan Benson依然坚持个人作品的创作，在2002年时他发行了个人的第二张专辑《Lapalco 》。接着在2005年时Brendan Benson发行了《The Alternative to Love》个人第三张专辑，随之The Mood Elevator也解散，在接下来就如大家知道的，2006年火热的The Raconteurs得以组建。可以说Brendan Benson在自己的作品中更加的融入了温暖的气氛，并没有给我太大的空间让我去把这张专辑《My Old Familiar Friend 》和The Raconteurs的作品相比较，可以说Brendan Benson处理的相当好，当然他明显已经是一位老手。这里来做个推荐曲目吧，“A Whole Lot Better”，“Eyes On The Horizon”，“Garbage Day”，“You Make A Fool Out Of Me”，“Posied And Ready”，“Lesson Learned”，推荐曲目过半，也就说明是一张优质专辑。请放心聆听。A Michigan-born songwriter who occupies the rockier end of the power pop spectrum (more indebted to the Who than the Raspberries, that is), Brendan Benson debuted at the age of 26 with a sterling first album, 1996's One Mississippi. He continued working as a solo artist for the better part of a decade, releasing three albums of his own while occasionally appearing on other artists' records. However, Benson remained a minor part of the musical mainstream until 2005, when he joined Jack White in forming the Raconteurs. The supergroup fared well on both sides of the Atlantic, with 2006's Broken Boy Soldiers and 2008's Consolers of the Lonely both cracking the Top 10 in the U.K. and America. Benson returned to his solo career in 2009, as the Raconteurs took an indefinite break and Jack White shifted his focus to the Dead Weather. Brendan Benson worked alongside songwriter Jason Falkner, former member of Jellyfish and the Grays, during the creation of his debut album. Falkner co-wrote over half the songs and produced the first version of One Mississippi, but Virgin Records rejected the album and sent Benson back into the studio with a new producer, Ethan Johns. Meanwhile, several of the Falkner-produced tunes were released via a limited- edition EP called The Wellfed Boy, which appeared not long after the revised version of One Mississippi came out. As major-label power pop albums are wont to do, One Mississippi sold fairly poorly despite receiving positive reviews, and Benson spent the next several years extricating himself from his Virgin contract while producing and appearing on other artists' records. 2002's Lapalco marked his independent debut, and its critical success spurred Benson's return to the majors in 2005 with The Alternative to Love. Benson then began collaborating with fellow Michigander Jack White of the White Stripes, forming a partnership that quickly turned into a four-piece band named the Raconteurs. The group released two albums and scored a number one single with Steady as She Goes, which topped the modern rock charts in 2006. After playing with the band for several years, however, Benson struck out on his own with 2009's My Old, Familiar Friend, his fourth solo effort.