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DVDfever.co.uk – Seasick Steve: Happy Man CD single reviewElly Roberts reviews
[I Started Out With Nothin…]
Sometime after the recording of album Dog House Music, Seasick Steve learnt a big lesson. To go more mainstream, you need to be more expansive, much like world bluesman Eric Bibb e.g. Friends (2004).
And thats exactly who Steve Wold sounds like hear no bad thing.
Taken from Top 10 album I Started Out With Nothin And I Still Got Most Of It Left, this is arguably the best song on it. Its getting plenty of spins on BBC Radio 2, and why not.
Ruby Turner does the duet while K T Tunstall plays rhythm guitar, and magic is more than evident as Stevie boy keeps is gritty voice and subtlety intact, delving into a gospel southern groove.
St.Louis Slim is more like his stage songs: out and out earthy grit with a nifty beat.
The verdict : Oh yes .
Tracks: Happy Man, St.Louis Slim
Radio: Hear tracks soon on THE PLUGwrexhamfm.com Weblinks:seasicksteve.com /myspace.com/seasicksteve
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Elly Roberts passed away in 2011, but he was a man who was so passionate about all types of music and loved meeting his musical heroes, such as Mick Hucknall at a book signing at the Trafford Centre, Manchester in 2007.
A former teacher and also a music journalist, DJ and radio presenter on local community station Calon FM, plus appearances on BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru and BBC Radio 2, Elly started doing reviews for DVDfever.co.uk in 2004 and he did the majority of the CD and concerts reviews on the website.
I know also that he loved getting away for the summer to Spain and I hope that wherever he is now he is enjoying the hot sunshine and, as one of his friends has said on his Facebook page, that he is interviewing his musical heroes.