Le Skeleton Band are Bruno Jacob, (bass, banjo), Salsky Jr (drums, guitar) and Alexandre Jacob (vocals, guitar). This seedy south of France trio play a brand of scratchy vaudeville gypsy blues earthier than Zach Condon’s romantic Gallic reveries, bashed out on acoustic guitars, melodica and pots and pans liberated from a local soup kitchen. Frontman Jacob is actually easier to understand when he sings in his native tongue than in the weird, heavily-accented English he adopts for the majority of their songs. Sometimes, he’s a French Tom Waits. But at other times he sounds alarmingly … read more
Le Skeleton Band are Bruno Jacob, (bass, banjo), Salsky Jr (drums, guitar) and Alexandre Jacob (vocals, guitar). This seedy south of France trio play a brand of scratchy vaudeville gypsy blues earthier than Zach Condon’s romantic Gallic reveries, bashed out on acoustic guitars, melodica and p… read more
Le Skeleton Band are Bruno Jacob, (bass, banjo), Salsky Jr (drums, guitar) and Alexandre Jacob (vocals, guitar). This seedy south of France trio play a brand of scratchy vaudeville gypsy blues earthier than Zach Condon’s romantic Gallic reveries, bashed out on acoustic guitars, melodica and pots and pans liberated from a local soup kitchen. Frontman Jacob is actu… read more