- Record Label: Warner Brothers
- Release Date: Sep 29, 2008
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Hobo Journeyman enlists the help of Nick Cave, KT Tunstall and Ruby Turner to deliver winning album.
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'My Youth,' a desolate mediation on ageing, it's the best thing here, and there's not a hint of the dusty tracks about it.
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It all proves that Seasick Steve is at his strongest when he’s playing solo.
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MojoHis whip-smart three-string guitar licks still take centre stage and his banter sizzles with the personality and charm that have won him so many new admirers. [Oct 2008, p.112]
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If you relax into it, and not expect the same experience as seeing Steve live, it's pretty good.
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The album's sole significant guest, Nick Cave, emerges on the stalking 'Just Like A King,' but elsewhere there's sadly no real sign of the poetic edge that he or the pick of the earlier troubadours can produce.
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Q MagazineThere's nothing remotely new or sophisticated about any of it. Instead the album happily operates at the most instinctual gut level, oozing authenticity in a way that Jack White, say, would give his front teeth for. [Nov 2008, p.111]
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Is this the best we can do? Desperate-to-be-authentic, carbohydrate-stodgy white blues, played by an elderly man pretending to be a tramp? Really, you deserve better.