I Started Out With Nothin And I Still Got Most Of It Left

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Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
The most unlikely of stars, sixty-something Seasick Steve Wold might have started out with nothin', but these days he can headline the Royal Albert Hall. The second solo album from the much travelled bluesman (and, let's not forget, studio owner--he didn't suddenly step off a boxcar with a demo tape in hand--refines the sound that made 2006's iDog House Music/i so instantly appealing. Guests include Ruby Turner, KT Tunstall (playing rather than singing) and Nick Cave and Grinderman--Cave and Steve duet on their collaboration "Just Like a King". The title track, "Started out With Nothin'", is as catchy as it is wise, "One True" laments Steve's late dog ("my one true friend", of course) and the catchy full-band "Happy Man", featuring Turner and Tunstall is as near as Seasick gets to offering a single. Without the visual impact of seeing an elderly man tell travel stories in between torturing a three string guitar while kicking a wooden box, iI Started out With Nothin' and I Still Got Most of It Left/i can only offer a simulacrum of his live show, but his crude appeal remains obvious even as his sound gets smoother. i--Steve Jelbert/i

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Customer reviews

review by: critique sentimentale date: 2009-06-08 rating:
What a character
Once again Seasick is his usual terrific self on this CD, in fact this is my favourite of the 3 I bought - a brilliant character with his own different slant, takes blues/hobo to a new level, can't stop playing this, love it more every time I play it, rough and ready music but so addictive, nobody else quite like him!

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review by: date: 2009-05-08 rating:
Good Gritty Blues
I really like this album and it gets better with every listen. Has an immediate gritty feel with an appreciation of the musicality that grows and grows. Imagine Jack Johnson's long lost cousin straight out of the American mid-west dustbowl singing the blues.

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review by: wallace 700 date: 2009-05-08 rating:
Gravel and Granite
A unique character with a voice that echoes a life lived. Steve's take on life and travels shine through the basic but enjoyable guitar. It's the music you switch on when it's that time of the day, when you just want to put yourself in a different place. He's wild and rabid at times - with a hint of wild rockin' but capable of shifting direction into a moving lullaby. Everyone should have at least one Seasick Steve album.

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review by: Lion date: 2009-05-03 rating:
Better with Seasick Steve
Enjoyed this CD, great hobo blues. It was a consolation purchase because of a gig I missed; I'll try to avoid missing his next gig when around and buy more of his stuff then. It is foot-stompin' good, go buy this stuff, you'all!!


review by: spikemusic date: 2009-05-02 rating:
Live it alone Steve!
Blues as a genre of music has been stained by enough white guys who tried to add "depth" to it. Well, the only people fooled by this overrated charade are the same ones who have never heard of Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters and Albert Collins. This nonsense belongs to same desperate group as Joe Bonamassa, Johnny Lang and Walter Trout. Leave it alone Steve, you've made enough money, go back where you came from....

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