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I Started Out With Nothin' and I Still Got Most of It Left | 
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| Artist: Seasick Steve
Label: Warner
Category: Music
List Price: £15.99
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 34
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 825646941537
EAN: 0825646941537
ASIN: B001D60VTK
Release Date: September 29, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Started Out With Nothin' | | • | Walkin' Man | | • | St Louis Slim | | • | Happy Man | | • | Prospect Lane | | • | Thunderbird | | • | Fly By Night | | • | Just Like A King | | • | One True | | • | Chiggers | | • | My Youth |
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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 Dog House Music 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, I Started out With Nothin' and I Still Got Most of It Left can only offer a simulacrum of his live show, but his crude appeal remains obvious even as his sound gets smoother. --Steve Jelbert
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
Get the blues November 12, 2008
lifeclearout (UK)
Some people have got quite wound up about this guy being popular when there are lots of other "real" blues artists who deserve more attention... I'm no expert, but Seasick Steve's music seems fairly authentic and it's a good listen. The spoken introductions are a little annoying after a while, though, (to me, at least). Maybe he'll lead people on to other sorts of blues, which has to be a good thing. And if you like this, can I recommend you give Chris Whitley a try?
 loved it November 10, 2008
Colin (Azerbaijan)
I will be honest, this popped up on my screen as an "other people have bought this" recommendation from Amazon, and I bought it on the strength of other curstomer reviews and mainly for the title - I really wanted this CD on my shelf.
I have just listened to it for the first time - and you know what? It is excellent, I love it. Strongly recommended.
 Not the down dirty boogie I was hoping for, but still good. November 4, 2008
Anthony Parsons (bonny scotland)
I bought this album like many others I guess, after catching steve on Jools Holland and watching some live performances on youtube.
I was a little dissapointed, now dont get me wrong, I'm not slamming this album, its very good, with some nice songs and polished production values, and therein lies the problem for me, this didnt sound like the stuff I heard elsewhere, its.. sanitized? It doesent seem to have the raw enrgy and refreshing simplicity, there are drums and percussion and backing singers and apart from a couple of exceptions these are mostly laid back gentle tunes. I REALLY found myself hoping the next song would turn out to be a dirty foot stomping down home blues boogie affair, but this never happened. I realise that the whole point to music is the constant evoloution and it never stays the same but it would have been nice if it was a fifty fity split between polished material and the raw stuff.
This is a GOOD album but could have been so much more by putting less into it.
 terrible, just terrible .. October 30, 2008
Niccolo65 (Aberdeenshire United Kingdom)
0 out of 25 found this review helpful
There's nothing on offer in this album. Absolutely terrible effort. Do yourself a favour and buy a Supersuckers CD instead.
Pretty good, but a big step backwards! October 25, 2008
Mr. Dominic L. Brown (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Seasick Steve is a fantastic bluesman, I'm a huge fan, and I listen to Doghouse Music constantly, but I'm really sorry to say that this album just doesn't quite do it for me.
Doghouse Music is a superb album - simple, straightforward, totally un-produced and packed with real feeling and passion. Thats what Seasick Steve means to me - his views and experiences of a different world, (one I hope I'll never know) are powerful and honest, and he can really play that guitar too.
It was obvious that this album would be more commercial, more produced, because Steve is now a massive worldwide phenomenon (rightly so) and so there is alot more at stake. There are some great tracks on this record, and Steve does his best to shine through, but the band are wrong for him, the arrangements are wrong for him, and the mix is wrong for him too! If you listen really carefully, you can hear the fantastic rolling rhythms of doghouse music in the guitar riffs, but almost every song is drenched in bass and drums, and it is they who set the rhythm, NOT Steve! At times you have to strain to hear his guitar at all, due to the terrible mix, and even the vocals are too quiet on several numbers.
For me the problem is that this is just a blues record with Seasick Steve in the band. If you took him away, all you would have is a bunch of session players jamming the blues, and since he's drowning in the mix half the time, thats all you have got on some of the tracks. No band can ever accompany Steve as well as he can accompany himself, and with such a polished, managed sound it ends up sounding rather clinical. A waste of a unique talent!
On the other hand, Steve seems happy with it, so good luck to him...but it just isn't anything like what I was hoping for.
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