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I Started Out With Nothin' and I Still Got Most of It Left

~ Seasick Steve

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Audio CD (20 July 2009)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Warner Bros.
ASIN: B001DR9TP6
Other Editions: Audio CD | Vinyl

Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (58 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 220 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)
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The most unlikely of stars, sixty-something Seasick Steve Wold might have started out with nothin', but these days he can headline the Royal Albert Hall. The second solo album from the much travelled bluesman (and, let's not forget, studio owner--he didn't suddenly step off a boxcar with a demo tape in hand--refines the sound that made 2006's Dog House Music so instantly appealing. Guests include Ruby Turner, KT Tunstall (playing rather than singing) and Nick Cave and Grinderman--Cave and Steve duet on their collaboration "Just Like a King". The title track, "Started out With Nothin'", is as catchy as it is wise, "One True" laments Steve's late dog ("my one true friend", of course) and the catchy full-band "Happy Man", featuring Turner and Tunstall is as near as Seasick gets to offering a single. Without the visual impact of seeing an elderly man tell travel stories in between torturing a three string guitar while kicking a wooden box, I Started out With Nothin' and I Still Got Most of It Left can only offer a simulacrum of his live show, but his crude appeal remains obvious even as his sound gets smoother. --Steve Jelbert

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After being nominated for 'Best Live Act' at 2008's Mojo awards and winning 'Best Breakthrough Act' in 2007, Seasick Steve returns with his 3rd full-length studio album. Taught toplay guitar by the highly respected blues guitarist K.C. Douglas and famous for playing his 3 stringed guitar and stamping on a wooden box he calls the 'Mississippi Drum Machine',Seastick Steve's up-tempo blues has proved a surprise hit in the UK.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good, but a big step backwards!, 25 Oct 2008

By	Mr. Dominic L. Brown (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

This review is from: I Started Out With Nothin And I Still Got Most Of It Left (Audio CD)

Seasick Steve is a fantastic bluesman, I'm a huge fan, and I listen to Doghouse Music constantly, but I'm really sorry to say that this album just doesn't quite do it for me.

Doghouse Music is a superb album - simple, straightforward, totally un-produced and packed with real feeling and passion. Thats what Seasick Steve means to me - his views and experiences of a different world, (one I hope I'll never know) are powerful and honest, and he can really play that guitar too.

It was obvious that this album would be more commercial, more produced, because Steve is now a massive worldwide phenomenon (rightly so) and so there is alot more at stake. There are some great tracks on this record, and Steve does his best to shine through, but the band are wrong for him, the arrangements are wrong for him, and the mix is wrong for him too! If you listen really carefully, you can hear the fantastic rolling rhythms of doghouse music in the guitar riffs, but almost every song is drenched in bass and drums, and it is they who set the rhythm, NOT Steve! At times you have to strain to hear his guitar at all, due to the terrible mix, and even the vocals are too quiet on several numbers.

For me the problem is that this is just a blues record with Seasick Steve in the band. If you took him away, all you would have is a bunch of session players jamming the blues, and since he's drowning in the mix half the time, thats all you have got on some of the tracks. No band can ever accompany Steve as well as he can accompany himself, and with such a polished, managed sound it ends up sounding rather clinical. A waste of a unique talent!

On the other hand, Steve seems happy with it, so good luck to him...but it just isn't anything like what I was hoping for.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Big label, but still the same old Steve, 3 Oct 2008

By	jimweibo (St Albans, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Started Out With Nothin And I Still Got Most Of It Left (Audio CD)

This is Seasick Steve's first release on a major label, Warner Brothers, to which he has moved from his previous home at Bronzerat. The album shows one or two signs of this change. Most obviously, the sound is a bit less raw than it was on Dog House Blues. Be reassured though: everything that makes Steve special is still here.

The album includes the usual blues stomps, played on a variety of (largely ratty) guitars. Steve attacks these vigorously, with his guitar playing sounding haphazard and note-perfect at the same time. There are also a couple of ballads, including the truly delightful "Walking man", with Steve's voice at its gentlest and mellowest. There are even a couple of pretty good covers, including the old Box Tops hit The Letter and the blues standard Rolling and Tumbling.

There are a few guest musicians on the album: Nick Cave's Grinderman on one track, and a couple of girl singers on another. I don't think Steve needs the help, and I'd be worried if he continued down that track. Still, this is a feelgood album by a real musician. Buy it, and if you possibly can, go see him in concert!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Authenticity..who really gives a ****, 30 July 2009

By	Nugent_Dirt "Nd" (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Started Out With Nothin And I Still Got Most Of It Left (Audio CD)

The negative reviewers here knock SS because he doesnt happen to be a. black b. dead or c. at least 80. However, being an ex hobo who rode the freighttrains probably lends him more blues authenticity than most not that he's ever said he's a bluesman as he calls his stuff 'doghouse' music. Other than saying such and such is not your bag there's no point having a pop at acts that dont make out they're anything other than entertainers. Anyway, I first saw SS at Glasto a few years back and frankly he was a refreshing change from all the indie poseurs on the Pyramid stage etc. This album's raw and rootsy lack of pretentiousness also makes a nice change from the glossy overproduction of most rock and pop that swamps the world. So, maybe he wont be hailed as another Robert Johnson whatever. Just take it all at face value, enjoy it and dont listen to all those purist snobs who drearily bore us on and on about authenticity, 'real' music blah blah

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4.0 out of 5 stars Solid performance
Okay so it's not groundbreaking, but how many albums are? Highly enjoyable, great driving album.

Published 2 hours ago by Haystack

4.0 out of 5 stars raw blues as it should be
music as it should be, no electronic alterations andsome one who can play and sing

Published 1 day ago by B. Wilson

4.0 out of 5 stars I STARTED OUT WITH NOTHIN' SEASICK STEVE
I PURCHASED THIS ALBUM ALONG WITH ANOTHER BY SEASICK STEVE AFTER SEEING A CLIP ON TOP GEAR - IF YOU LIKE BLUES MUSIC YOU WILL LIKE THIS ALBUM, ALTHOUGH THERE IS A TRACK WHICH HAS... Read more

Published 2 days ago by Mrs. Frances E. Kenny

5.0 out of 5 stars The true renegades always walk alone
Apparently Seasick released his first studio album in 2004 at the age of about 63. He'll be about 68 by now. Read more

Published 1 month ago by Alex DeLarge

4.0 out of 5 stars Recommended, well worth a listen.
I recently purchased this CD having seen Seasick Steve on Jules Holland's TV show, last year.I couldn't believe what I saw and heard!! Read more

Published 1 month ago by M. R. Cook

4.0 out of 5 stars Seasick Steve on Vinyl
Great music and recording but the pressing of this LP is appalling, buy the CD!

Published 1 month ago by Simon Holyland

1.0 out of 5 stars blues for the bourgeoisie
It is hard to fault Seasick Steve - he was just a guy doing his thing when he managed to achieve unexpected success after appearing on a TV show. Read more

Published 2 months ago by Philosophaster

5.0 out of 5 stars I Started Out with Nothin and I still Got Most of it Left
Having already purchased Steve's latest album 'Man From Another Time' I bought this album and I was not disappointed with the CD it gets better with every listen. Read more

Published 2 months ago by Anthony T. Mountford

4.0 out of 5 stars seasick steve - I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left
I bought this cd as a gift for the "man who has everything" and who loves listening to all types of music - although he hadnt heard of "seasick steve" when he did hear the cd he... Read more

Published 4 months ago by ST PATTISON

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely brilliant!!
Discovered Seasick Steve at Cambridge Folk Festival - he is brillant!! Voice is great and the lyrics are humerous and heartfelt - one track is actually just story but you feel... Read more

Published 5 months ago by N. Stovold

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