He has toured the UK extensively since 2007 being supported by Duke Garwood, Gemma Ray, The Sugars, Billie the Vision and the Dancers in January 2008, Amy LaVere in October 2008, Melody Nelson at the Brighton Dome on 7 October, and Joe Gideon & The Shark in January 2009. Wold's major-label debut, I Started Out with Nothin and I Still Got Most of It Left was recorded with Dan Magnusson on drums, was released by Warner Music on September 29, 2008, and features Ruby Turner and Nick Cave's Grinderman. Wold also played many other festivals throughout the world in 2008, including Fuji Rock in Japan, East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival in Australia, also in April 2008, and Roskilde in Denmark. KT Tunstall also dueted with Wold at the London Astoria in January 2008. He was joined on stage by drummer Dan Magnusson. Wold toured early in 2008, playing in various venues and festivals in the UK. In 2007 he played more UK festivals than any other artist. He was well received in the UK, winning the 2007 MOJO Award for Best Breakthrough Act and going on to appear at major UK festivals such as Reading, Leeds and Glastonbury. "I can't believe it, all of the sudden I'm like the cat's meow!" After that show his popularity exploded in Britain, as he explained in an interview: He performed a live rendition of "Dog House Boogie" on the "Three String Trance Wonder" and the "Mississippi Drum Machine".
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Wold made his first UK television appearance on Jools Holland's annual Hootenanny BBC TV show on New Year's Eve 2006. On Top Gear, when asked about his name, Wold replied "Well, I guess I just don't like boats!" When asked about his name on British Sunday morning television show, Something for the Weekend, he replied, "I just get sick on boats". When he was ill on a ferry from Norway to Copenhagen, later in his life, a friend began playfully using the name and, despite Wold not rising to it for a while, it stuck. When asked about his nickname, Wold has said: "because it's just true: I always get seasick". Mencken, 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.
At various times, Wold worked as a carnie, a cowboy and a migrant worker. He would travel long distances by hopping freight trains, looking for work as a farm labourer or in other seasonal jobs, often living as a hobo. 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. Douglas wrote the song "Mercury Blues" and had played with Tommy Johnson in the early 1940s. Douglas, who worked at his grandfather's garage, later realizing that he had been taught the blues.
At the age of eight, he learned to play the guitar from K. His father played boogie-woogie piano and Wold tried to learn when he was five or six, but could not. When he was four years old, his parents split up. He plays mostly personalized guitars, and sings, usually about his early life doing casual work. Steve Leach, aka Steven Gene Wold (born 1951), commonly known as Seasick Steve, is an American blues musician.
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