First, I was just searching for songs to play on our boat, and knew that there had to be more "out there" than just Jimmy Buffet. I'd never heard of "Trop Rock" a year ago. One of the first artists I found was Howard Livingston, but I also searched out many more, including The Boat Drunks, Gene Mitchell, Mike Aiken, Brent Burns, Jimmy and the Parrots, The Caribbean Cowboys, Hanna's Reef, Bertie Higgins, Coconut Radio, Rob Mehl, The Yard Dogs, and Scott Kirby. We even started appreciating some of Kenny Chesney and Zac Brown . . .
Now, we still love Jimmy, and we're going to our first Buffet Concert in Kansas City next month, but we were determined to try to see any of our favorties who might be playing in Key West when we were there, and two were. We saw Howard Livingston and Scott Kirby. We got to meet both of them. I guess one thing we enjoy about Trop Rock is that the artists are so approachable, and are often near our own age. Both Howard and Scott agreed to have their pictures taken with me and didn't seem to mind that I took pictures and video at their performances. I respect these two artists and will try to be responsible with their images. I hope they approve of how I use them.
I'm just now downloading my videos from the trip, but I am totally excited to have captured Scott Kirby singing a song of his that I really love, "This is the USA?" Another artist was playing with Scott, Dave Edmisten, and I now intend to find out more about him and add some of his songs to my playlist. But for today, here's Scott singing "This is the USA?" which I was delighted to discover, is a true story. Scott knew these people!
A couple of my other favorite songs of Scott's are
and
Out Here Near the Edge
You can find out more about Scott Kirby at http://www.scottkirby.com/
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