Seasick Steve
I saw his album in the window of a music shop today and the old timey moniker combined with the wizened, craggy face on the album cover made me think it might be one of those documentary projects where they sit a fogey down and let him ramble on about the old days on the high seas when the earth was flat and fire-breathing sea serpents patrolled the horizon.
Even odder. Seasick Steve is an American former hobo who washed up on a U.K. music show in 2006 and became an overnight success in this country. He writes twangy blues songs with titles like “Big Green and Yeller,” (about his John Deere tractor) and “Chiggers” (about… chiggers) and they love him here.
