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[ROCK] Who says you can’t have success in dual careers? 45-year-old Donavon Frankenreiter began his run as a singer-songwriter nearly 15 years ago, and while the coffeehouse crowd to which he was marketed might not have known it, he was already a very successful surf-god, multiple endorsements and all. A buddy of both fellow surf-guitar-guy Jack Johnson and alt-hip-hop maven G. Love, Frankenreiter’s music embraces a pleasing soul-tinged vibe that’s kept him in rotation at Starbucks to this day—not necessarily a bad thing. After a pair of well-produced albums for Universal’s rootsy Lost Highway imprint (Ryan Adams, Lucinda Williams), he went the indie route, releasing a string of albums on his own Liquid Tambourine label, including 2015’s The Heart, which is his most personal (and most recent) collection to date. With his parched croon and easygoing acoustic-soul M.O., Frankenrieter isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel or make sweeping political statements—he just enjoys writing and playing music. Sometimes that’s all you need. He’s at Babeville’s Asbury Hall on Sunday, August 26 with opening sets from HONEYHONEY’s Ben Jaffee and Lisa Bouchelle, who you may have heard doing a duet with Blues Traveler’s John Popper entitled, “Only the Tequila Talking.”