(Steven Gene Wold)
DISCOGRAPHY 2004-2018 (42CD/DVD)
DISCOGRAPHY 2004-2018 (42CD/DVD)
BIOGRAPHY
Steven Gene Wold (born 1940/1941), 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.
Wold was born in Oakland, California. When he was four years old, his
parents split up. His father played boogie-woogie piano and Wold tried to
learn when he was five or six, without success. At the age of eight, he
was taught to play the guitar by K.C. Douglas, who worked at his
grandfather's garage, and later realised that he had been taught the
blues. Douglas wrote the song "Mercury Blues" and had played with Tommy
Johnson in the early 1940s.
In 2000 Wold gave his age as 50. Wold left home at 13 to avoid abuse at
the hands of his stepfather, and lived rough and on the road in Tennessee,
Mississippi and elsewhere, until 1973. He would travel long distances by
hopping freight trains, looking for work as a farm laborer or in other
seasonal jobs, often living as a hobo.
At various times, Wold worked at a carnival, as a cowboy and as a migrant
worker. Wold described this time of his life by saying "Hobos are people
who move around looking for work, tramps are people who move around but
don't look for work, and bums are people who don't move and don't work.
I've been all three."..... (Wikipedia)
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