You know how it is. You’ve seen a name someplace and somehow it’s associated in your mind with “good”. Somewhere along the way I’d heard about this guy called Seasick Steve, so when I heard he was playing in Sydney, I checked youtube to see if I could find any of his clips.
There are heaps of them.
And the guy is a phenomenon. His kit is straight out of a junk yard: a stomp box, a trashed three-string (!) guitar and a slide. He looks and sounds like the kinda guy you find up the back of a truck repair shop somewhere in the deep South.
But does he get on it!
Cut my wings
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RlUwS1LKRs[/youtube]
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Doghouse boogie
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNoPNC3ebYQ[/youtube]
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Save me
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMf-em-56Mc[/youtube]
a brief interview with Seasick Steve
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn_tcRv-ghQ[/youtube]
