Skip Bessonette: Live @ Ship Ashore
Burly dude rocks a seafood restaurant with an almost unsettling zeal. That people sat and ate lobster while this man ripped through “Barefootin'” (is that a kazoo I hear?), and a totally harrowing 11+ minute Neil Diamond medly is not something I can sleep at night believing. I haven’t even played the 2nd side.
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Does Skip opens up for Ronnie Brown?
i thought this was the best drummer ever and then realized it was just a one man band. he should have at least thought up a more elaborate contraption than a hi-hat and barely mic’ed kick drum.
I never heard Skip at Ship Ashore but I wish I would have. He is one of the best around singing songs of the American West. I cannot imagine anyone not enjoying listening to anything he sings.
I turned this up in a dollar bin a few years ago, and that kazoo on “Barefootin'” and the Neil medley kill me everytime.
May be a stretch, as I know writing demos may’ve floated around, but to me it kinda pre-dates Neil’s “comeback” Rick Rubin album in stripping things to the core.
Same joints I pick out when I pull it from the racks for folk. Good lookin’…