Ben Harper - Skin Thin

This is a great, great song, and now there's an equally wonderful music video to accompany it.

Watching and listening to the song made me realise how long it's been since I've had a proper listen to the music of Ben Harper, and it reminded of why I fell in love with his sound in the first place. Definitely one to watch on full-screen with the volume cranked up.

Let the calm resonate in your room...



Notes from the Ben Harper subscription email (11 May 2010):
Friend and filmmaker Daniel Stessen was so inspired by the track "Skin Thin" off Ben Harper & Relentless7's latest album, White Lies for Dark Times, that he decided to make a mini film to tell a story of this moving song. The film was shot mainly in Fulton, NY, about an hour north of his hometown of Syracuse.

Filming the piece was a unique adventure in itself. Stessen describes the places they shot as "the type of places where you have to have three beers with anyone for them to trust you." He arrived blindly to each location with only the story in mind, shaking hands and making new friends along the way, and crafting the film with what was available - only staging the actions. The lead character was based on Stessen's best friend, who lives and works in the places shown in the film. The female lead was discovered working behind the counter at a pizza shop where the director had lunch just before filming began.