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Mike Huckabee Plays ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ in Jerusalem

The former governor of Arkansas brought his bass to Israel, apparently

by
Jonathan Zalman
May 24, 2017
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Mike Huckabee jams on his bass guitar on New Year's Eve, December 31, 2007.WEBN-TV/Flickr
WEBN-TV/Flickr
Mike Huckabee jams on his bass guitar on New Year's Eve, December 31, 2007.WEBN-TV/Flickr

President Trump was recently in Israel, where he ate some dessert, and so was Mike Huckabee. Did you know that the former Arkansan governor plays the bass? Yeah, he does. In a cover band called—what else?—Capital Offense. I didn’t know this, that Mike Huckabee plays the bass. Apparently, he brought his axe to Jerusalem and set up shop with a kippah-clad band for a rendition of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama,” a song that, sigh, never dies. Shout out to Jewish Insider’s Jacob Kornbluh for the vid. Enjoy?

Jonathan Zalman is a writer and teacher based in Brooklyn.