Seasick Steve - A Take Away Show - Part 2 from La Blogotheque on Vimeo . So a while ago, a good English friend tried to turn me onto Seasick Steve . "Everyone in the UK loves him! He plays Glastonbury every year. He's amazing." I think to myself "what do British people know about the blues and Americana music?" Tsk Tsk Mr. Matt. Tsk Tsk. When will I learn? Maybe someday. Seasick Steve, despite being named like a drunk children's singer, is actually, in fact, the shit - and quite a legitimate [...]
Man, when I heard this album for the first time a few weeks ago I just about fell out of my seat. Everything in me wanted to come straight home and tell y'all how awesome this dude was. Instead, I decided to let it wait until the beginning of 2009. Well, here we are and lemme tell y'all...this Seasick Steve fella is fucking awesome, but then while doing a little research for this posting I've started to discover that most of y'all already know that. While I'd never heard of Seasick Steve prior to his fourth album, [...]
Seasick Steve – I Started Out With Nothing And I Still Got Most Of it Left Despite being joined by some big name guests, 'I Started Out With Nothin' works best when Seasick Steve is left to his own devices. And while the slicker production may have ever so slightly dulled the hobo's act, the authenticity of his blues and of the man himself helps these songs shine. As anyone who caught his live show can attest, there's no more deserved breakthrough this year than Seasick Steve. Sigur Ros – [...]
Seasick Steve – I Started Out With Nothing And I Still Got Most Of it Left Despite being joined by some big name guests, 'I Started Out With Nothin' works best when Seasick Steve is left to his own devices. And while the slicker production may have ever so slightly dulled the hobo's act, the authenticity of his blues and of the man himself helps these songs shine. As anyone who caught his live show can attest, there's no more deserved breakthrough this year than Seasick Steve. Sigur Ros – [...]
Well there you have it, the end of another year. As usual the debates have already started to rage about the merits of this album versus that album (not least already on this very site ) and far be it for us not to add fuel to the fire. In the pages of this month's issue you'll find our 50 albums of 2008, presented for your howls of despair or hurrahs of agreement. We also talk to Glasvegas, the band integral to the 50, about their long journey to being an overnight success and recording a Christmas record in [...]
Out now.. The top 25 in order of ranking is here . Illustration by the wonderful BrenB . Interviews with Q-Tip(!!!), Little Joy, One Day International, Seasick Steve, Glasvegas, Cold War Kids. If you like this try: "Hey B, What's that you're reading?" Video: Little Joy - Next Time Around Little Joy (A non Gay Dad-related post) State November '08 out now [...]
oakland-native and hobo folk badass seasick steve has a new album out called started out with nothing and got most of it left. if you're into steel string folk & blues with a narrative bent, this here is your man. you can stream a handful of songs from the new album on his myspace , or listen to a short number, "prospect lane," below. seasick steve - prospect lane also, and just as important, [...]
Seasick Steve Tracks are from the Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England. The 3-day music festival is one of the largest in the world. Q&A from their website: Question: Drunk Six Pints? How Long Until You're Safe to Drive? Answer: 12 Hours Download: MP3: Radiohead - Paranoid Android (Live Glastonbury) MP3: Seasick Steve - Last Po' Man (Live Glastonbury) [...]
Blues. Music of the poor. So chic... It is said that one of the Bbluesmen's fathers is Robert Johnson. A guy who had very little time to record all of his music. The circumstances of his death are unsure, but some think White people murdered him in 1938, when he was 27. At that time, the Blacks often died beaten by the Whites. At that time, blues was just born, slaves ballads, sometimes sad, sometimes funny, so much filled with the freedom that lacked everywhere else. Nowadays, we listen to blues in the cosy living rooms of beautiful [...]
Le blues. Musique du pauvre. Tellement classe... On dit qu'un des pères des Bluesmen est Robert Johnson. Un type qui n'a eu que peu de temps pour enregistrer toute sa musique. On n'est pas sûr des conditions de sa mort mais certains pensent que les blancs l'ont assassiné, à 27 ans, en 1938. C'était une époque où les noirs mourraient souvent sous la main des blancs, c'était une époque où naissait le blues, ballades d'esclaves parfois tristes, parfois drôles, tellement pleines d'une liberté qui manquait partout ailleurs. Aujourd'hui le Blues s'écoute aussi dans les salons chauds des belles [...]
Gig Of The Week: Mencap Music's Little Noise Sessions Nothing like a good cause to stir bands into action, and this week sees several take the stage to raise funds and awareness for leading mental health charity Mencap. There's some big names; Stereophonics, Kasabian, Keane amongst the varied line-up. They do seem a bit short of 'wow' factor this year after previous sessions had seen the likes of U2 and Noel Gallagher playing sets. Wednesday's offering looks the toast of the bunch with Biffy Clyro, Friendly Fires and Frank Turner making up probably the [...]
I'm in two minds about Seasick Steve 's latest record, 'I Started Out With Nothin And I Still Got Most Of It Left' . On the one hand I really like the songs. On the other, I think the addition of external influences loses some of the rag tag, hobo charm of his previous records. A statement which I realise makes me sound dangerously like an indie hipster. For which I can only apologise. The thing is, I can't help but think that Jools Holland 's championing of him is both the root [...]
So, we had another band practice last night and, boy, do we suck. The bass player actually showed up (albeit stoned on painkillers, methinks), the guitarist claimed he was having trouble singing because of a cold (that ain't it, baby) and I couldn't stay in tempo on anything over 120 BPM (and even that was a challenge). Afterward, the guitarist asked what our goals were for the band (play clubs, parties, for friends)? I suggested my personal goal was to a) play in tempo and, b) not completely suck while doing so. They laughed. [...]
Christ almighty, it's fucking busy this week. So I guess I'll start by listing the three famousy gigs which I will not be attending, just to get them out of the way nice and early. Firstly, I will not be going to see Martha Wainright at the Picturehouse on Wednesday because, frankly, I find her rather annoying, despite expecting to like her music. I expected to like it, I just didn't. I also won't be going to see Mogwai at the Corn Exchange on Tuesday because despite their legendary status, I think [...]
Or is Seasick Steve really on the Paul O'Grady Show? I have lost it. Nightmares about Hollyoaks. Mistaking the sudden onset of tinnitus for the adjacent apartments fire alarm. And seeing Seasick Steve chatting to Paul O'Grady and bursting into a bit of improvisation with the once lady man himself! I'm going to have a lie down.
Tracklist: 01. Started Out With Nothing 02. Walking Man 03. St. Louis Slim 04. Happy Man 05. Prospect Line 06. Thunderbird 07. Fly by Night 08. Just Like A King 09. One True 10. Chiggers 11. My Youth 12. The Letter 13. Levy Camp Blues 14. Roll & Tumble Blues Genre: Blues/Rock Website: Myspace | Buy! [...]
The blues in Britain has always been derivative. It was appropriated mercilessly in the 60s of course by the likes of the Rolling Stones and Cream, but the innovations of those artists took the music sideways into the kinds of rock stylings that spawned Led Zeppelin and heavy metal. Even the most 'authentic' (whatever that slippery word is supposed to mean) of the British blues artists, such as John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, although capturing reasonably accurately the sound of indigenous American blues, missed out on the penumbra of the music, the undercurrent of feeling and experience given [...]
Seasick Steve has got me wanting to get me one of those one string diddley bo's. It might help my guitar playing. LOL, probably not. Seasick Steve - Save me - 1 string diddley bo'
If you missed Seasick Steve 's at Oxegen this year, fear not. The song and dance man will return to Ireland to play at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham on Wednesday, October 29. A former hobo, Seasick Steve will headline POD's 'Some Days Never End' with My Morning Jacket providing support on the night. Tickets go on sale Monday, August 18 @ 9am and are priced at €44.50 SeaSick Steve: Live at Oxegen 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =VmJxdEYoesI
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