11th April 2012: Seasick Steve & interview / Playlist

Featured: Seasick Steve 

Seasick Steve is back!! With John Paul Jones in his band, a new album, perhaps a new direction and he's heading our way. As well as a special Bluesfest appearance, Seasick Steve will be taking on Sydney and Melbourne in April 2012.

Steve's new album 'You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks' showcases not only his signature array of classic blues styles but also previously unheard styles of Steve's; from Appalachian mountains and down home Kentucky Bluegrass to Nashville country gospel via Greenwich Village coffee house folk balladry.

Given the aural evidence of his back catalogue, classifying Steve as a blues artist is pretty understandable, but it does do him a slight disservice. His material, like his life, is drawn from a long rich history of experience and a broad palette of influences. "I got so many damned songs, it's like a big old train and only part of them get into the station," Steve affirms. "The rest of them are just waiting for the next station."

Seasick Steve keeps on doing his thang without a radio hit or playlist, just a battered 3-string guitar, a one-string Diddley Bo' and a collection of other cheap and interesting instruments that some would just about call "firewood", plus the Mississippi Drum Machine (a wooden box with some carpet on top, and a Mississippi license plate on the front).

There are no fancy frills in his records, no light shows on stage, no backing tapes, no auto-tune, no whistles OR bells... just some get-down, go-for-it, foot-stomping, real... live... music and Thee Sonic Assassin chatted with Steve about Led Zeppelin, love and tractors on this week's show...

Seasick Steve

Playlist 11th April 2012 (HERE)


Jack Rose - Kensington Blues [Kensington Blues]
Cabins - Oceanic Blues [Bright Victory]
Mark Lanegan Band - Phantasmagoria Blues [Blues Funeral]
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Seasick Steve - Just Like A King {feat. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis} [I Started Out With Nothin' & I Still Got Most Of It Left]
John Fairhurst - Blues For Bill [Joys Of Spring]
Gary Clarke Jr. - Don't Owe You A Thang {blues} [The Bright Lights EP]
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Seasick Steve - Fallen Off A Rock [Dog House Music]
Seasick Steve - My Home {blue eyes} [Songs For Elizabeth]
Seasick Steve - Cheap [Cheap]
Led Zeppelin - I Can't Quit You Babe [Led Zeppelin]
Seasick Steve - I Started Out With Nothin' & I Still Got Most Of It Left [I Started Out With Nothin' & I Still Got Most Of It Left]
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Jimi Hendrix Experience - Catfish Blues [Live 1967]
Dead Meadow - Me & The Devil Blues [Shivering King & Others]
Harris Newman - Feral Blues [Non-Sequiturs]
Nick Drake - Black Mountain Blues [Family Tree]
Black Mountain - Buried By The Blues [Wilderness Heart]
Band Of Horses - Window Blues [Cease To Begin]
Iain Chambers [Hotplate] - Hump Back Blues [Rituals & Pastimes]