Seasick Steve: I Started Out With Nothing And I Still Got Most Of It Left
Mick Middles, Quietus, The, 6 October 2008
ORGANIC TO the foot of every blue soaked note. Here we meet the real deal. 40 years in a hobo hell (well, mostly) this 60-something Californian who saw Nirvana close up and carries heavy punk credentials, is as near as we get to the downbeat blues legends of the lost great age.
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