Seasick Steve - I Started Out With Nothin' and I Still Got Most of It Left Listen/buy here!

‘I Started Out With Nothing And I Still Got Most Of It Left’, that's the title of the new album from the impressive figure called Seasick Steve. He was recently well praised in De Morgen (**** ‘Seasick Steve heeft naast elf uitstekende songs datgene waarmee hij het verschil maakt op het gros van zijn collega's: authenticiteit’) and HUMO (***½ ‘Seasick Steve maakt nog steeds ruwe, primitieve blues, en het resultaat is nu eens ontroerend dan weer geestig’) and was again the CD of the week in De Standaard too. He received assistance in the studio from musicians of mixed plumage: Nick Cave and a number of Grinderman cohorts and even the likes of KT Tunstall too.

Seasick Steve is the real thing. Until recently this scruffy drifter lived on the streets, where, since he was fourteen, he got acquainted with real life. This hobo (the American term for the homeless who travel around by freight trains) got to know the blues in the slums. Seasick Steve learned his primitive version of it in the band of Lightnin’ Hopkins. Since appearing in the New Year's edition of Jools Holland, Seasick Steve has been a welcome guest at festivals and we've already been able to welcome him in sold-out ABBox (21.01.08). Seasick Steve fans have the complete Fat Possum catalogue in their record cabinet (The Black Keys, R.L. Burnside, Bob LogIII) but are equally nuts about everything from The White Stripes.

Support is Brit Gemma Ray. The press about her new album 'The Leader':

'With noir-ish hints of Lee Hazlewood’s unearthly country-rock, Ray sits midway between Nina Simone and Isobel Campbell, and is the better for it' (MOJO). 'Imagine Norah Jones on Amy Winehouse’s drugs' (Q). 'Few (girl singers) are as raw and honest, she weaves an entrancing tapestry of Soul and Blues, full of dark themes and late-night confessions all presented in a sultry seductive voice'. (The Sun). '(The Leader’s) classic pop genes are host to a bewildering range of foreign bodies, rising from minor key squalls to full girl-group majesty. You could do worse than imagine PJ Harvey in thrall to the Shangri-Las, but Ray has a clutch purse full of sundry to other party tricks, she has no problem producing straight, sparkling pop' (The Word).

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SEASICK STEVE - Sizzle Reel

Gemma Ray - Hard Shoulder