Seasick Steve: I Started out with Nothin’ and I Still Got Most of It Left - The Sunday Times reviewMark Edwards
Personally, I reckon anyone who reads that album title should want to buy the record — but it’s possible that some of you may take more convincing than that. Okay, then. Usually when someone says “It’s all good”, that’s a wry way of accepting that, actually, some of it isn’t good at all, but we’ve all got to make the best of things; when Seasick Steve says “It’s all good”, however, it’s simply an accurate description of his music. Crucially, the potentially hazardous journey to a major label has been managed without any adverse effects. Anyone who caught his appearance on Jools Holland’s Hootenanny, invested in Dog House Music and has been playing it ever since can dive into I Started out with Nothin’ safe in the knowledge that nobody has messed with the formula. What you get is blues, blues and more blues. Nothing has been updated, nothing made radio-friendly. It wasn’t broke (apart from Steve’s guitars, which all seem to be) and nobody’s fixed it. If, though, you caught Steve at a festival and thought he was just a year-long fad, boy, were you wrong. Whether extolling the virtues of Thunderbird wine or cursing some bugs, swaggering through St Louis Slim or sensitively picking My Youth, he continues to breathe new life into the blues, once again demonstrating that this apparently limited musical form has an infinite capacity for reinvention.
Album is in .m4a format for Itunes.
No Pass
and here it is in .mp3 format credit to original uploader
Personally, I reckon anyone who reads that album title should want to buy the record — but it’s possible that some of you may take more convincing than that. Okay, then. Usually when someone says “It’s all good”, that’s a wry way of accepting that, actually, some of it isn’t good at all, but we’ve all got to make the best of things; when Seasick Steve says “It’s all good”, however, it’s simply an accurate description of his music. Crucially, the potentially hazardous journey to a major label has been managed without any adverse effects. Anyone who caught his appearance on Jools Holland’s Hootenanny, invested in Dog House Music and has been playing it ever since can dive into I Started out with Nothin’ safe in the knowledge that nobody has messed with the formula. What you get is blues, blues and more blues. Nothing has been updated, nothing made radio-friendly. It wasn’t broke (apart from Steve’s guitars, which all seem to be) and nobody’s fixed it. If, though, you caught Steve at a festival and thought he was just a year-long fad, boy, were you wrong. Whether extolling the virtues of Thunderbird wine or cursing some bugs, swaggering through St Louis Slim or sensitively picking My Youth, he continues to breathe new life into the blues, once again demonstrating that this apparently limited musical form has an infinite capacity for reinvention.
Album is in .m4a format for Itunes.
No Pass
and here it is in .mp3 format credit to original uploader
