I have just bought everything I can find by Seasick Steve on Amazon cos I live abroad.
This may be crazy but I think when one is over sixty he holds up a candle of hope to everyone who put away their guitars and lamented their lost careers as leaders of rock and roll bands.
Secondly I love the blues, whoever and however it is rendered, and Steve certainly lays down some of the simplest blues ri*** that are reminiscent of Howlin Wolf, Paul Butterfield and sometimes with the rhythmic delievery of the Staples Singers.
His spoken addresses are a throw back to many of the old blues guys who used to apologise for their very being and tell us how it was.
Steve goes back in both speech and music to a time in the 1950's when it was still possible to 'ride the rails' a la Kerouac and to a time when there were still bums drifting around America looking for the free ride and the honest handout.

Perhaps there is no longer an option to travel that way. The age of the computer has quickened the check up time on so called vagrants and security has tightened its grip upon all of us.
Keep on playing Seasick and I'll keep on dreaming.


Guy Tunnicliffe