Seasick Steve - Hubcap Music (2013)

01 – Down On the Farm
02 – Self Sufficient Man
03 – Keep On Keepin’ On
04 – Over You
05 – The Way I Do
06 – Purple Shadows
07 – Freedom Road
08 – Home
09 – Hope
10 – Heavy Weight
11 – Coast Is Clear
12 – Untitled

Musicians:
Seasick Steve – guitar, vocals
Jack White – guitar
John Paul Jones – bass
Dan Magnusson - drums

There you go, Hubcap Music. At least you know where you are with Steve who – on his sixth album in nine years since he became an overnight success in his early 60s – sticks with the grizzly, scuffed-up blues that made him such a hit with the purists. It's the same unspoilt lo-fi approach that's attracted starry names like Jack White and John Paul Jones to play on this album, and the same one that makes you not even notice they're there.

The downside to raw appeal is it becomes an end in itself, and here the songwriting suffers. Hubcap Music has a surfeit of barrelling blues tracks that feel as if they've been made a million times over, from the heads-down redneck boogie of Down On The Farm and Self Sufficient Man to the Exile On Main Street-era Stonesy rifferama of Freedom Road. And the dumb funk of Keep On Keepin' On has pub band written all over it.

But then the delicate, wistful Purple Shadows pops up along with the Muscle Shoals soul of Coast Is Clear, and Steve's a different proposition altogether. Perhaps you can teach an old dog new tricks after all. --- Matthew Horton, virginmedia.com

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