{"id":3167,"date":"2012-03-23T14:45:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T19:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/?p=3167"},"modified":"2012-03-23T14:45:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T19:45:50","slug":"blues-from-the-soul-with-seasick-steve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/blues-from-the-soul-with-seasick-steve\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues From The Soul With Seasick Steve"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3168\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3168\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blues-from-the-soul-with-seasick-steve\/353px-seasicksteve\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3168\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3168\" src=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/353px-SeasickSteve-e1332531902260-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seasick Steve has taken the world by storm with his story and the blues. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Any great blues musician will tell you that playing the blues is all about telling a story.\u00a0 In recent years, Seasick Steve has toured the world bringing his story to the stage with his voice, his collection of do-it-yourself instruments, and his soul.\u00a0 I collected a few of his videos that are raw, uncut blues straight from the heart to share with you.\u00a0 Seasick Steve left Mississippi as a kid and lived a hard life on the road, working wherever he could, playing music all over Europe and North America.\u00a0 Only recently, since his TV debut on the Jools Holland BBC show in 2006, has Steve made musical waves all around the world.\u00a0 I hope you enjoy Seasick Steve&#8217;s story, because I sure do.<\/p>\n<p>The first video features Seasick Steve playing his Mississippi Drum Machine and his three string Trace Wonder guitar.\u00a0 Check it out at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pNoPNC3ebYQ\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pNoPNC3ebYQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/youtu.be\/pNoPNC3ebYQ&#8221; width=&#8221;420&#8243; rel=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The next video comes from the Jools Holland show again with a great performance of Steve&#8217;s song, &#8220;Walking Man.&#8221;\u00a0 Hear this beautiful song at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pC3rzgprN4w\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pC3rzgprN4w<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/youtu.be\/pC3rzgprN4w&#8221; width=&#8221;420&#8243; rel=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The last video I&#8217;ll leave you with features Seasick Steve on his 1 string Diddley Bo.\u00a0 It&#8217;s pretty amazing what he can do with these simple instruments.\u00a0 Enjoy it at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qMf-em-56Mc\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qMf-em-56Mc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qMf-em-56Mc&#8221; width=&#8221;420&#8243; rel=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seasick Steve tells his story through his music, which is exactly what blues music is all about.\u00a0 There are a lot of very cool videos from Seasick Steve including appearances with the great bass player, John Paul Jones, and the very talented, Jack White.\u00a0 There&#8217;s plenty more to come at Blues Guitar Unleashed, so stay tuned.\u00a0 I hope you enjoyed the post because I had a great time making it for you.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Griff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any great blues musician will tell you that playing the blues is all about telling a story.\u00a0 In recent years, Seasick Steve has toured the world bringing his story to the stage with his voice, his collection of do-it-yourself instruments, and his soul.\u00a0 I collected a few of his videos that are raw, uncut blues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}