Seasick Steve

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Critic Consensus

Based on 44 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Seasick Steve is rated as an impressive live performer, with many notable strengths. Seasick Steve concert reviews describe live shows and performances as authentic, energetic, melodic, ethereal, psychedelic, and mysterious.

ON TOUR

Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium (October 24); De Bosuil, Weert, Netherlands (October 25); Batschkapp, Frankfurt, Germany (October 27); Lucerna Music Bar, Praha, Czech Republic (October 29); Proxima, Warszawa, Poland (October 30); Metropol, Berlin, Germany (November 1); Nottingham Royal Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom (November 10); Nottingham Royal Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom (November 10); Nottingham Royal Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom (November 10); Nottingham Royal Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom (November 10); Nottingham Royal Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom (November 10); Nottingham Royal Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom (November 10)

FESTIVALS IN 2024

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Latest Release

A Trip a Stumble a Fall Down On Your Knees (7 June 2024)

Artist Info

Genre

rock

Origin

Oakland, United States (1941)

Bio

Steve Leach, aka Steven Gene Wold (born 1951), commonly known as Seasick Steve, is an American blues musician. He plays mostly personalized guitars, and sings, usually about his early life doing casual work.

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Critic Concert Reviews

Americana (UK)

November 9, 2018

It's a packed out Corn Exchange for the first night of Seasick Steve's first UK tour since 2015. Much has changed since his famous Hootenanny breakthrough moment, not least that the audience is now predominantly middle-aged and male.

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The Guardian (UK)

October 16, 2016

It’s a question of authenticity and not to put too fine a point on it whether his post-fame image has been substantially built on a big lie.

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The Telegraph (UK)

October 15, 2016

Days before this apparently unreconstructed bluesman’s biggest-ever headlining show at Wembley which was to celebrate his 10th anniversary in the limelight a new biography arrived which blew the lid off his mysterious early years.

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Buzz Magazine (UK)

April 30, 2015

100

Appealing to all ages judging by the enthusiastic at-capacity audience this magic was no doubt aided by hard work and skills learned through years of playing so many different stringed instruments.

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Birmingham Live (UK)

April 29, 2015

Now touring with his seventh studio album, Sonic Soul Surfer, Steve’s raw and unproduced sound has expanded from hillbilly blues, to out and out psychedelic rock n roll, and never forgetting that touch of southern folk.

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