Classic Rock

SEASICK STEVE

easick Steve is something of an anomaly in the blues world, chiefly because he’s been embraced by the mainstream. People who don’t listen to blues music, not in a concerted way, know who he is. Since his breakthrough performance on Jools Holland’s 2006 TV show, Steve (born Steven Gene Wold) has won a. He’s famous at a level that much of the contemporary blues scene can only marvel at, yet he’s maintained an ‘aw-shucks’, humble persona that suggests a character who hobos around in railway cars and busks in shop doorways.

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