Delta Blues Man

Just as well the material must be, from which the musicians are knitted myths ..., Seasick Steve, actually Steve Wold, (got his nickname during the crossing by ferry to the Norwegian home his wife, as he fed the "fish". .) and where others are already thinking in his early 60s to the early retirement and planting plans print to the PC for the Beetbelegung the allotment system, Seasick Steve takes off right after it for years hung around, was in prison and almost even succumbed to a heart attack. ( he recorded his first album in 2004) simply .Optisch knitted dungarees and Beard (just as the guy who is waiting for a vacancy in ZZ Top). We actually expected any moment that one of the Waltons just around the corner looks ..) he plays on a guitar that has seen better days, and Rory Gallagher Strat contrast is considered new. But that's probably the attraction of matter. He is the classic storyteller (the music is a means to an end, and hand him also usually three chords), his autobiographical stories as strays and Hobo in kauzig schnoddriger James McMurtry telling manner, the stories of runaway women, natural disasters, but also everyday stories that are important to him, Steve processed in his lyrics) One sees with his mind's eye the endless wheat fields, the portly flowing Mississippi, the endless freight trains that the country cut .And the plate title seems program fit his partly self-built instruments actually not in in the MP3 and digital music geschwängerte worlds, but that's what makes the charm of his music probably aus.Back to the Roots is in no Steve phrase and he skeletonized the songs to a minimum and makes for example on a Didley -Bo, a wooden stick with a stretched string, plucking on a three-stringed guitar, in a cigar box as a resonance chamber is used. Seasick Steve took his album on their own on, produced and also wrote all the songs himself. Dan Magnusson on drums and percussion are the songs like
"Bo Diddley" and "Seasick Boogie" the necessary start-up. "The Banjo Song" comes out only with banjo fingerpicking, in "Man from Another Time" or "That`s all" elegant Footstomping Blues is announced. "Big Green and Yeller" or "Happy (to have a job") (and Dan Magnusson to percussion) convey playful, authentic Delta blues. Sends the guy on tour ... go!