one last thing before I quit

I spend a lot of my days reading random sites and blogs, keeping an eye out for bands that intrigue me. Give or take a couple times a year, I find one that just intrigues me. And here's that one.

Boys and girls, Seasick Steve.



Born Steven Gene Wold, he left home at 13 and worked random jobs, sometimes as a carnie, cowboy or even a migrant worker. In the '60s, he started to form his craft of being a blues musician, even becoming friends with Janis Joplin. He learned to work in the studio and began producing music, including a few Modest Mouse albums. Ya, weird.

He then went over to Europe, and spent his time writing music and busking. In late 2006 he released his second full length album. Someone noticed him and invited him to play the New Year's Eve Jools Holland's 'Annual Hootenany' show in the UK (see video above). And then his popularity sky-rocketed. Well, so much that people now knew about him, and he even got his own Wikipeida page. Thankfully, as this is where this info is all coming from.

He plays a 3-string guitar that he bought for $75, and he refuses to add the other 3 strings missing too. He also plays a single-string guitar.

Anyways. He just looks like a weird creeper, but he isn't too shabby of a musician. Plus, no one knows when he was born, which just adds more to the mystery of this man.