ARTiST: Seasick Steve
ALBUM: Man From Another Time
BiTRATE: 167kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: Atlantic
GENRE: Blues
SiZE: 62.88 megs
PLAYTiME: 0h 50min 33sec total
RiP DATE: 2009-11-21
STORE DATE: 2009-11-20
Track List:
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01. Diddley Bo 3:51
02. Big Green And Yeller 4:15
03. Happy (To Have A Job) 3:06
04. The Banjo Song 3:30
05. Man From Another Time 3:14
06. That's All 4:39
07. Just Because I Can 3:40
08. Never Go West 3:30
09. Dark 3:55
10. Wenatchee 3:54
11. My Home (Blue Eyes) 2:29
12. Seasick Boogie 10:30
Release Notes:
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Recorded live on old-style analogue equipment, Man from Another Time is
typically enjoyable, though not quite as potent as the quarter-million-selling I
Started Out with Nothing and I've Still Got Most of It Left û despite Steve's
lo-fi ringing of the changes, with his trusty "three-string trance wonder"
guitar set aside occasionally in favour of slide licks played on a homemade
cigar-box guitar ("Happy"), and more primitive still, the single-string device
whose construction is explained and demonstrated in "Diddley Bo".
He may no longer ride the rails, but Steve's hobo experiences still drive his
muse, with recollections of time spent sleeping rough, picking apples as a
migrant worker ("Wenatchee") and spending time in Spokane jail ("Never Go
West"). Elsewhere, "Just Because I Can" and "Big Green and Yeller" respectively
find a nostalgic Steve hopping a freight train for old time's sake, and devising
a plan to buy himself a tractor and caravan and "drive down the highway blockin'
traffic every chance I can". He has two basic modes: the itchy boogie groove
most effectively employed on the prison lament "That's All", evoking the
restless frustration of pacing a tiny cell; and the more low-key style of "The
Banjo Song", a sympathetic reflection on the ostracism of ageing drifters, where
the dry-gulch plunk of his banjo perfectly matches the hoarse rasp of his voice.