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1-Diddley Bo 2-Big Green And Yeller 3-Happy (To Have A Job) 4-The Banjo Song 5-Man From Another Time 6-That's All 7-Just Because I Can (CSX) 8-Never Go West 9-Dark 10-Wenatchee 11-My Home (Blue Eyes) 12-Seasick Boogie (2009) Bronzerat (2009) Bronzerat
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35 of 36 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I first heard Seasick Steve a few years ago now on Jools Holland's Hootenanny and was blown away. With lyrics written by himself and simple catchy music Steve produces the kind of music that others can only dream of. It is refreshing in a world of music that has become in many cases too commercialised that people like Seasick Steve are still around keeping things pure - especially on the Blues scene, where the songs are supposed to speak to us.
On this album are in total 12 tracks with Dan Magnusson playing drums on 7 of them. Where Steve really excels is when he is playing and singing by himself and these tracks are really good. All in all this is a brilliant album to have. If you are looking at this item then you probably already know Steve's work from previous albums, but if this is your first time then you are in for a real treat if you get this.
Although there are 12 tracks on this there are in fact 13 because if you listen to the last track it is extended, and after everyone says their goodbyes the song plays; Amy LaVere sings on this track.
On this album are in total 12 tracks with Dan Magnusson playing drums on 7 of them. Where Steve really excels is when he is playing and singing by himself and these tracks are really good. All in all this is a brilliant album to have. If you are looking at this item then you probably already know Steve's work from previous albums, but if this is your first time then you are in for a real treat if you get this.
Although there are 12 tracks on this there are in fact 13 because if you listen to the last track it is extended, and after everyone says their goodbyes the song plays; Amy LaVere sings on this track.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:MP3 Download
Got the free track from Amazon. Normally would not have touched with a barge-pole. did not think I liked blues and his picture put me off - he looks a bit Hicksville. but the free tack was great and so got the whole album straight away. all the tracks are as good as the freebie, some good singing, some good tunes, and a great laid-back feel. a class album.
55 of 58 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
You cannot help but love Seasick Steve. He looks like a man who has travelled all over the world and his music and lyrics are filled with the consequent maturity and perspective. The opener to this album is a track called `Diddley Bo'. It is a phenomenal track filled with driving energetic drums and a lead line played on some kind of homemade lap steel instrument. To follow this `Big Green and Yeller' swaggers and struts with a more than accomplished riff and a wonderful rock vocal. This wouldn't be out of place in the 70's and yet it feels just as timeless today. Recent single `Happy (To Have a Job)' is well placed at track three with its stripped back production, bouncy folk guitar and deep vocals. `Banjo Song' then descends further into Seasick Steve's stripped back country sounds in such a way that you can't help but smiling at the simplicity.
After this the title track starts confidently with plodding drums before Steve's vocals ring through over a sliding and twanging guitar line. This is a wonderfully honest track. To follow this `That's All' struts with more of the same confidence and a produces a growing desire in me to dance in stereotypical hill billy fashion. The sound then returns to a more stripped back state with `Just Because I Can' which is a sombre and gentle travelling song. It acts almost as a prologue to `Never Go West' which though more energetic is angry and slightly bitter. On `Dark' Steve then produces a sombre and slightly remorseful track.
Ultimately the album closes out in similar style to the way it started. `Seasick Boogie' is plodding with a wonderfully bouncy guitar line. The whole package is then held together with Steve's vocals once more growling throughout. Once Steve, Vance, Roy and Nathan have said goodbye and Steve has set up a bit of a party you are treated to a beautifully soft version of Hank William's `I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry.'
Seasick Steve is a character almost unlike any other in the music industry today and albums like this are an absolute joy to listen to filled with wonderful stories, emotion and no small slice of fun.
After this the title track starts confidently with plodding drums before Steve's vocals ring through over a sliding and twanging guitar line. This is a wonderfully honest track. To follow this `That's All' struts with more of the same confidence and a produces a growing desire in me to dance in stereotypical hill billy fashion. The sound then returns to a more stripped back state with `Just Because I Can' which is a sombre and gentle travelling song. It acts almost as a prologue to `Never Go West' which though more energetic is angry and slightly bitter. On `Dark' Steve then produces a sombre and slightly remorseful track.
Ultimately the album closes out in similar style to the way it started. `Seasick Boogie' is plodding with a wonderfully bouncy guitar line. The whole package is then held together with Steve's vocals once more growling throughout. Once Steve, Vance, Roy and Nathan have said goodbye and Steve has set up a bit of a party you are treated to a beautifully soft version of Hank William's `I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry.'
Seasick Steve is a character almost unlike any other in the music industry today and albums like this are an absolute joy to listen to filled with wonderful stories, emotion and no small slice of fun.
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Lives up to the name!
Seasick Steve brings forth from the past a beautiful blues sound for this album. "Happy To Have a Job" hits home particularly hard for the blue-collar crowd that's still working in... Read more
Published 4 months ago by matt
brilliant
this is a must buy album/mp3 you wont be dissaapointed he may be from another time but his music is the best raw honest blues you can buy on a contempary label what can i say got... Read more
Published 7 months ago by bos1
Brilliant!
Having first seen Seasick Steve on the BBC Cambridge Folk Festival 2010 program I decided to find a CD that represented the essence of what I had heard. This is definitely it.
Published 8 months ago by Richard J. Willis
Another great purchase!
This is the second 'SS' cd I have purchased and I would recommend it to anyone who likes blues/rock/ZZ Top type music.
Published 10 months ago by Ping Pong
the whole package counts!
CD is good very enjoyable . Plastic case it arrived in had damaged spigots that holds a CD in place so it did not do its job and rolls about in it. Read more
Published 11 months ago by The Owl doctor
dull and repetitive
Dirge of a record, with glimpses of great guitar, but pulled down by crass songwriting and uninspired compositions. A real let down.
Published 12 months ago by BORU
Thin sound.
Having heard sea Sick Steve on the radio I was very keen to purchase the CD. However the sound quality on the CD is so inferior to that on the radio, which is unusual, that I am... Read more
Published 13 months ago by 1tenrob
A weird mix
This is the first album I have bought of S/S and I found it a weird mix of the old style blues and a bad attempt to turn his way of singing into some sort of rock music.
Published 18 months ago by Mr. Alan W. Budd
Great stuff
Yes...an excellent album. I heard him first on the Rob Brydon Show and loved it. The album did not disappoint.
Published 18 months ago by psquared
Oh Yes...
I just love this. In a time where most of the music / entertainment being shoved at me sucks my soul out, Seasick is a refuge.
Published 19 months ago by Adam Dawson
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