Seasick Steve

I saw Seasick Steve on the Jools Holland show on friday playing 'I Started Out With Nothing'.
I really liked it. Haven't heard a cd by him yet but might have to add him to my list.
Here's the vid from  friday's Jools Holland show

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=113FzU6Uf … ature=user

Tripsy

Geoff , Have been in contact with Jool's People and gave them some pointers Through to jbonamassa.com as to Contacting J&R Adventures & Jenson Communications Inc , Hopefully some correspondence will result in Joe entertaining on ..... "Later With Jools Holland" while in The UK in Early November , Think they'd have fun playing together i'm sure as Jools is a Big BB Fan , This is a Great Programme to Showcase Joe's Talents to a Large TV Music Viewing Public Audience ...... Worth a Try I Guess

................................ Michael

He's on the front cover of Guitarist magazine this month.

I'm quite surprised he isn't known in the US as he is American.
Seems he's a genuine ex hobo and his guitar isn't what you'd expect from someone with three albums out...it's a battered thing with three strings on it !!

Some of the tracks on the CDs are storys from his life of ho boing.

It seems the appearance on the Jools Holland show has made him a star in the UK overnight. Bit like KT Tunstall (well it was the first time I'd heard of her anyway). Hope Joe plays this show........if he wants of course Would be great to see him on mainstream TV.

http://www.seasicksteve.com/

Yes I rate Seasick Steve. I've seen him live a couple of times. First time was quite an intimate gig where he really had time to talk to the crowd about his life stories. He was a revelation, I had not heard his albums at that stage and was really special. Bought his album, got it signed and a picture with him. Went to see him again last year where he was playing a larger venue. The main difference was he had a drummer play with him on some tracks. Again I loved the gig. although missed a little of the intimacy of the first gig. His new album came out last week and has the snappy title, I Started Out With Nothing And I Still Got Most Of It Left. Not heard it yet, but I did see the song on Jools. I notice it had backing singers, not sure if they feature on the album.

Musically there's sounds of a hundred late bluesmen in his tunes, including John Lee Hooker and Junior Kimbrough. He didn't get alot of music tuition but apparently was taught by a little known bluesman called KC Douglas who had a minor hit with Mercury Blues.

Steve lived as a hobo for a large period of his adult life, leaving home due to his abusive stepfather at the age of 13. He was a music producer in Seattle in the early 1990 and knew the guys from Nirvana pretty well.

In recent years he has lived in Norway, where his wife is from, and recorded his first two albums there. Due to his phenomical success in the UK he moved to Norfolk this year where he recorded his new album. From being an unknown in 2006 and appearing on Jools Holland at the end of that year, he will shortly play the Royal Albert Hall!

There's a few misconceptions about Steve though in the British public, he is not a cowboy or a hill billy and he does not play country music. The venue I was at the last time insisted on playing this horrible country and western music before he came on which was lightyears aways from Seasick Steve's music.

I'm glad he's got his success, but I wish our younger homegrown talent would also get some of it too!

STEVE RULES MAN.  I love Steve, and Unknown Hinson, and Bob Log.

Saw seasick steve live at leeds fest this year and he was awesome! good old Jools for finding him
How cool would it be to have Joe on Jools Holland's Hootenanny this New Year's eve??! hell yeeeaaah!

Same the mic in a box stomp box thing worked a treat he was cool to watch