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| 1. Dog House Boogie | |||
| 2. Cheap | |||
| 3. I Started out with Nothin' | |||
| 4. Diddley Bo | |||
| 5. Thunderbird | |||
| 6. Happy Man | |||
| 7. Cut my Wings | |||
| 8. Treasures | |||
| 9. St Louis Slim | |||
| 10. 8 - Ball | |||
| 11. Don't Know Why She Loves me but She Do | |||
| 12. Walkin' Man | |||
| 13. You Can't Teach an Old Dog New Tricks | |||
| 14. Fallen off a Rock | |||
| 15. The Banjo Song | |||
| 16. Never go West | |||
| 17. My Donny | |||
| 18. Prospect Lane | |||
| 19. Xmas Prison Blues | |||
| 20. That's All | |||
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When Seasick Steve broke commercially with 2006's Dog House Music, his second LP, breaching the UK top 40 and immediately improving the Bronzerat label’s coffers several times over, it was an entirely predictable turn of events. After all, a 65-year-old who’d spent large portions of his life as a hobo, working odd jobs as a carnie and a cowboy, and who played bizarre self-customised instruments consisting of car parts, duct tape and carpet was exactly what the mainstream was crying out for. It was written all over the charts of 2005: please, save us from this Coldplay and Kaiser Chiefs nonsense. Give us a bearded bluesman with an infectiously cheery grin and a back-story worthy of Hollywood adaptation, said the public. Possibly.
Whether they did or didn’t is moot (likely: not), as it’s precisely what we got. And things got even better for the man born Steven Gene Wold back in 1941: his third collection, I Started Out With Nothin’ and I Still Got Most of It Left, was a major label debut that peaked at an impressive nine on these shores, and sold well enough internationally to make world tours a viable option. 2009’s Man From Another Time broke the UK top five, and 2011’s You Can’t Teach an Old Dog New Tricks was his third UK top 10 hit in a row. Inspiration might be in short supply for Steve these days, with lyrical tropes recycled enough times to have the Scotch Tape skeleton in a fade-away panic, but perspiration – breathlessly boisterous live performances that laugh in the face of old age – has carried Seasick Steve to heights that his midlife self could never have foreseen.
Walkin’ Man is his first best-of set. At 21 tracks it’s possibly twice as long as it might be – but it certainly offers value for the first-timer, taking in cuts from each of his five LPs. A deluxe edition is backed by a DVD featuring Steve in action at London’s Brixton Academy: it’s in this environment where he really shines, his innate showmanship filling the very biggest venues the world can offer (he’s previously sold out the Royal Albert Hall, as well as lighting up stages at Glastonbury and Latitude).
But the studio recordings are certainly engaging affairs, raucous and rippling with a fevered energy that frequently threatens to explode into a brilliant, blinding frenzy – even if, sometimes, the tracks don’t really peak. Diddley Bo, the opener of Man From Another Time, is one amazing break away from glory; similarly, Cheap – the title-track of Steve’s 2004 debut – locks into a fine groove but never quite makes good on its explosive potential. Early tracks are naturally rather lower in fidelity than their bigger-budget cousins, but throughout the man at the centre is a charmer with a great story or two in him.
Twenty-one tales he doesn’t have; but few have grown tired of hearing the same old same old just yet.
--Mike Diver
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CD Description
Walkin’ Man’: The Best Of Seasick Steve is a career spanning compilation of Steve’s most beloved tracks taken from his impressive catalogue which now features three gold and one platinum selling album.
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Brilliant album, now I've got the "best of" I want to buy his other albums. Chilled out, laid back and moody - really good listening.
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Seasick Steve has the skill and imagination to perform a version of the blues that has powerful echoes of the primitive and the rural. There are few white musicians who can achieve this and Steve does, with considerable flair. The danger is that he sells the primitive a little too forcefully: his appeal is also his potential weakness.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This Audio CD was a gift for my partner. Not sure about the content myself as it is not to my taste, however my partner is pleased with the gift!!
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