Seasick Steve – There’s not many who can play the blues like Seasick Steve, or who have really lived it. Leaving home at 13 years old with only a few clothes, a sleeping bag and his guitar, Steve would hit the streets alone – going hungry, working for handouts, freight hopping across the States and playing for food.

After years on the road, Steve made the move to Norway where he released his first album Cheap in 2004 with the Level Devils, followed by Dog House Music in 2006 and his first UK television appearance on Jools Holland’s Annual Hootenanny  (broadcast on New Year’s Eve). His popularity soared, and in 2007 he released his latest EP, It’s All Good, featuring his famous customised instruments: a Three Stringed Trance Wonder (three-stringed guitar); a One Stringed Diddley Bow with an old screwdriver for a slide, made especially for him by fellow bluesman James ‘Super Chikan’ Johnson; and a Mississippi Drum Machine, a small wooden box that is stomped to provide percussion.

One BBC review said of Steve: “His bare-bone blues is simple, tight and full of authentic roots spirit.” As talented as Seasick Steve is, he remains as humble and as unaffected as the boy who left home at 13. “I ain't trying to be on some dusty shelf in the blues section under S. I don't even think of myself as no blues person, more like a song and dance kinda fella,” he says. “[I] just like letting the people who come and see me figure it out.”

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