The veteran blues musician was friendly and funny with a light dusting of rock'n'roll
"It feels a bit wrong," Lauren Laverne (6Music) said of her guest Seasick Steve's new "best of" compilation, "that it only goes back to 2004." But Steve was looking on the bright side of success coming so late in life. Had it arrived earlier, he drawled, "I probably would've been dead. I certainly would've been an idiot. And I wouldn't have stayed married."
Between session tracks, he sketched the unpredictable trajectory of his career and life. With his second wife, he's lived in 62 houses over 30 years. "I can't even count how many before that with the other wife," he added. "I had a dog as an audience," he recalled of rehearsing at home, quipping that when he left the house, his audience dwindled still further.
He still sounds surprised by it all. "It's too late for me to get used to it," he told Laverne. Asked about his hopes for the future, he said simply: "I'd like to stay alive a bit longer." There was some talk of appearing with big name acts, but mostly he was friendly and funny, with just a light dusting of rock'n'roll; a bit like the show, really. For all its stirring music, listeners get on with their mid-morning tasks. "She's making quiche," Laverne said, reading out one listener's email.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/nov/02/lauren-laverne-seasick-steve-review
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