Seasick Steve | You Can’t Teach An Old Dog New Tricks
Man what can I say about Seasick Steve…well for starters this dude is real as fuck. He’s an old bluesman who spent most of his younger years as a hobo doing all the usual hobo stuff: riding trains, living on the streets, getting locked up and playing the blues. Just listen to a few of his songs and you’ll know this guys is the real article. The best part about him is that he still looks like he just hopped out of a box car and he plays a variety of home made instruments made out of hubcaps, mop handles, beer cans and trash.
However, despite his realness and skill at crafting instruments out of garbage he’s lived in relative obscurity for most of his life. It wasn’t until his 2006 appearance on Jools Holland’s Hootenanny that he garnered any sort of main stream attention. Just watch this and you’ll see why:
Now if you can’t get down with that….well you can go fuck off and die or how about you just toss in the new Miley Cyrus record and twerk the night away or listen to whatever the fuck it is that passes as popular music today. Sorry, I’m getting worked up here but this dude is the protector of a sacred tradition that seems to be dying out these days.
With his fifth release, You Can’t Teach an Old Dog New Tricks, Steve managed to keep the torch burning. Frankly this album rocks, it rocks hard. Also he somehow got John Paul Jones to play bass on a few tracks. You can’t get a better endorsement than that. I mean come one, the dude was in fucking Zeppelin and he dug old Seasick’s jams enough to play on his album. Before I ‘ramble on’ (hehehe) too much more here’s a few of my favorite tracks:
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