Album Reviews

On “Man From Another Time” Seasick Steve sings about his tractor (“Big Green And Yeller”) and about being in jail (“That’s All”), plays on a wooden board with one string while backed up by a Bo Diddley beat (“Diddley Bo”), boogies like he’s 20 rather than 70 (“Seasick Boogie”) and plays a most convincing version of the country classic “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”). In between he shows he still knows what it’s like to have the blues in cuts like “Just Because I Can” and “The Banjo Song”. On the first he does a fine impersonation of John Lee Hooker while he transforms into Howlin’ Wolf in the latter.

It sure took him some a while before being discovered but Seasick Steve is quickly making up for lost time by cranking out another standout album. Check out “Man From Another Time” and prepare to be taken for a ride on a freight train to a country most of us know only from the movies.