Monday, 19 November 2018

Seasick Steve - Can U Cook?


Rating: 5/5

Review:
Hugely enjoyable

There’s nothing very original on Can U Cook?; the opener, Hate Da Winter is straightforward, hard-drivin’ bottleneck blues, Last Rodeo wouldn’t sound out of place on an early Bob Dylan album, Down De Road has more than a whiff of Tony Joe White about it and so on...but it all sounds really good and is hugely enjoyable. There’s a right old mixture of styles here and Steve nails them all, I think. As always, there’s no pretension and often a slight roughness which conceals real skill, a great ability to give a song soul and meaning and just a touch of class, somehow.

I really like can U Cook? I wasn’t bonkers about Keepin' The Horse Between Me And The Ground, but I think this is a return to form. There’s variety and class enough to make this an album to listen to a lot of times and still get plenty out of. Warmly recommended.

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