Ben Watt isn’t particularly interested in trying to figure out how he got to this point in his life. Even after a good 40 minutes of conversation over Skype about the many turns his career has taken over the past three decades, he bristles at the notion of looking much further beyond the tour dates on his calendar.
“There’s no plan in this,” he says, with a detectable note of frustration in his voice. “There’s no project I want to explore or artist I’d love to work with. Things just need to happen as they happen.” It’s hard to argue with that logic, especially when faced with the raw facts of Watt’s life and music. His own interests and influences, and a fair amount of happenstance, have been his only guideposts—and they’ve served him well…