He strokes and tugs at his grizzled beard incessantly – so at least the facial hair is real, because the rest of him seems almost too good to be true. Tattoos on show, fondling a double Jack Daniel's, with his three-stringed "Trance Wonder" guitar across his lap, he looks like a character from a made-up blues lyric. But Steve Wold, otherwise known as Seasick Steve (so called, he says, "because it's just true: I always get seasick"), is the genuine article – and that is undoubtedly his appeal. In an industry where image is everything – and where bands are forever tweaking their backstories to appear richer, poorer, younger, cooler, sexier, lazier, luckier – authenticity like his can't be bought.
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