Song of the Week - 16/05/13 - Seasick Steve - Freedom Road / Hubcap Music

Seasick Steve - Freedom Road

Carrying on from a point I began to make back in my last post, about the great source of new music that is the The Jools Holland Show on BBC. The Jools Holland show presents a great mix of genres with mainstream artists grouped together with more niche and diverse ones. The show was launched the careers of many of these small upcoming artists, giving them some valuable TV coverage for the first time for many. One good example is that of Seasick Steve, the former hobo and now acoustic folk/blues man and UK music festival favourite after appearing on the new years eve hootenanny. It is commendable that these fresh new artists are given the chance to show what they can be on national TV.

Check out the original Seasick Steve performance here from the New Year's Eve special 2006, the brilliant Dog House.

An extraordinary man, who has lived a turbulent life; has managed to make the remarkable transformation from sleeping rough and hopping trains to make it big in the music industry. His life story would certainly make an excellent autobiography. He is made all the more likeable due to his modesty at his recent success and his simple kind hearted nature. His success can be shown by his numerous award nominations, frequent music festival appearances and having had the opportunity to play live with the likes of Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones. Since 2006 he has had 3 albums go gold and one, I Started Out with Nothin and I Still Got Most Of It Left (2008) went platinum in the UK.

His new album Hubcap Music was released the end of last month. This is probably my favourite song from the new album although there are plenty of good tracks to choose from, some nice chilled country styled tracks to some more fast paced, toe-tapping tunes like this one. The album is definitely recommended.

Also check out the full album on spotify below

[Info Sources - Wikipedia, Youtube]