I Started Out With Nothin' and I Still Got Most of It Left | 
| Artist: Seasick Steve
Label: Warner Bros.
Category: Music
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Rating:  62 reviews
Sales Rank: 399
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 825646941520
EAN: 0825646941520
ASIN: B001DR9TP6
Release Date: July 20, 2009
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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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 Big label, but still the same old Steve October 3, 2008
jimweibo (St Albans, UK)
59 out of 63 found this review helpful
This is Seasick Steve's first release on a major label, Warner Brothers, to which he has moved from his previous home at Bronzerat. The album shows one or two signs of this change. Most obviously, the sound is a bit less raw than it was on Dog House Blues. Be reassured though: everything that makes Steve special is still here.
The album includes the usual blues stomps, played on a variety of (largely ratty) guitars. Steve attacks these vigorously, with his guitar playing sounding haphazard and note-perfect at the same time. There are also a couple of ballads, including the truly delightful "Walking man", with Steve's voice at its gentlest and mellowest. There are even a couple of pretty good covers, including the old Box Tops hit The Letter and the blues standard Rolling and Tumbling.
There are a few guest musicians on the album: Nick Cave's Grinderman on one track, and a couple of girl singers on another. I don't think Steve needs the help, and I'd be worried if he continued down that track. Still, this is a feelgood album by a real musician. Buy it, and if you possibly can, go see him in concert!
The true renegades always walk alone January 8, 2010
Alex DeLarge (Lundy Island, devon)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Apparently Seasick released his first studio album in 2004 at the age of about 63. He'll be about 68 by now.
I'm not a fan of blues music (save for John lee Hooker) and I didn't hold out much hope for this LP. I kind of thought that if Seasick had waited until his mid-60s to get famous, then it was probably an elaborate (and for Seasick at least) time consuming promotional ploy.
Well it's not just a good LP, it's great. The production is fantastic, and Seasick's songs benefit from the obvious fact that he's lived a bit of life before recording this, ie he's not "doing music" as a stopgap between a degree course and an inevitable job in the media.
It's great the way each track starts off with about a sentence and a half of mumbled spoken word. Seasick has an awesome speaking voice. My favourite is the intro to "Prospect Lane" (also my favourite track) -
"Uh, sometimes people'd ask me what it's like riding the trains, and, pfshh, huh... Kinda boring a lot of the times, most of the times you'd just be like, waiting and such." GENIUS!
The only reason I ended up with this record is that I was exchanging an unwanted DVD at the shop, and I was in a hurry and picked it almost at random. Glad I did.
This is the blues,uncluttered and beautifully played ! October 6, 2008
P. Clack (WITNEY, OXFORDSHIRE United Kingdom)
20 out of 24 found this review helpful
One thing you have to say about Seasick Steve is he plays the blues,he plays it well.So many have come into the blues in recent years ,rocked it up and done more harm than good until rock-blues is so far removed from its roots that its hard to see where it came from.SSS may not be an original but he's brought the blues back home without taking the heart out of it.This album is pure blues,great songs ,played well,with a whole lot of heart and soul in it,and that's what counts and Steve does it all so well.If you like this then go and listen to originals like R L Burnside or Junior Kimbrough,both from the Mississippi hill country.But I'' say one thing Steve is right in there with them,and he's doing a tremendous job for the blues,and to get on a major label doing it that's just spot on.This is a great blues album,hold od though,this is purely one great album by an international treasure so get it,enjoy it because this is what the blues is all about.Oh and credit to both K.T.Tunstall and Nick Cave and Griderman your just the ticket on this very very fine album.
Authentic blues October 1, 2008
DJ Carr (Falkirk)
28 out of 34 found this review helpful
I love blues music, all types new and old and I love this album.This is more in the style of the older bluesmen (compared to SV or Clapton type stuff). If you enjoy blues get this album,you won't regret it, yes it does sound like old delta blues and isn't a new style but so what, Steve is great at it and no-one else is doing anything like it at the moment,it may be an old style but it still sounds great and is played from the heart.
A great album February 22, 2009
J. A. Hepworth (Sandwich, England)
I really enjoyed this album and each time i listen to it, i grow fonder of it. The addition of some of Seasick Steve's stories, like in previous albums, really add to the experience. If you enjoyed his previous albums you wont be disappointed by this one.
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