- I'm sitting here, clacking away on the keyboard and working on the webpages for edition one of the Sensitize e-magazine. Later With Jools Holland is on the television and Seasick Steve has just given a heart-warming interview with Jools.
His latest CD; I Started Out With Nothin' and I Still Got Most of It Left is on sale now. I was thrilled to learn that while he was recording the tracks for it, Nick Cave and Grinderman turned up, in suits, to jam with him on Just Like a King. Ruby Turner also features on this album giving the normally raw, acoustic Blues experience of Seasick Steve's music a fleshiness and richness of quality.
Telegraph.co.uk wrote:Having spent most of his life as a penniless drifter, "Seasick" Steve Wold finds himself suddenly, at 68, a "buzz" act - the world's favourite breakthrough blues artist, an all-conquering trouper on the festival circuit, and, least plausibly of all, a recording artiste for the mighty Time Warner conglomerate.
His apparently artless, downhome manner has struck a chord with music fans disenchanted with pop's endless strategising and lack of human warmth. Beyond that, Wold's simple, self-twanged tunes, and his rambling on-stage anecdotes, present a lifestyle of impecunious freedom, which any of us might yearn for, while chained to a computer.
I am positively dying to hear;Telegraph.co.uk wrote:By comparison with 2006's lo-fi Dog House Music, this major-label debut offers a streamlined Seasick experience. Without going overboard on production or arrangements, the sound is bigger, and some guests arrive to flesh it out, including Ruby Turner (gospel-hollering on Happy Man) and Nick Cave's Grinderman (lending muted support on Just Like a King).
Shrewdly, given Steve's popularity as a showman, spoken introductions are occasionally included. "This is a song about nothin'," he cheerily drawls before the opening title track. After the final My Youth, a beautiful itinerant's lament for his "wasted" life, Steve closes up shop with a hilarious, meandering yarn about the day he realised that he could never settle down.
What I would really appreciate is; if one of you buy it before me, you do a little review of it including your first impressions (so take notes). Then post it up onto this thread. We can then tweak it together and create a collaborative music review for the Sensitize © online arts e-magazine which is scheduled for general public reading on this domain at Halloween.
Peace & Thanks etc
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