Seasick Steve & The Level Devils Cheap (LP) orange It was hard to believe

It was hard to believe that Lynyrd Skynyrd could possibly top its classic

The trippy xylophone and laid-back hip-hop of "Doin' Time" frame lyrics displaying Nowell's vulnerable side

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but this record is a snapshot of something much greater than myself

Seasick Steve & The Level Devils Cheap (LP) orange It was hard to believeThe mysterious Seasick Steve does indeed offer a brand of "cheap" juke joint blues on this album. Not that it's badly recorded at all; it's just rather skeletal and rough, Steve fronting a core trio of himself on electric guitar, "Mr. Joe H." on stand up bass, and "Mr. Kai C." on drums. In the 1990s and early 21st century, this is the kind of raw juke joint stuff that underwent a revival, or at least was recorded far more often than it had been, both