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When the dog bites, when the bee stings, etc. Seasick Steve can cheer himself up by remembering a few of these\u2026
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Food<\/strong> Oatmeal. I have it every morning. My favourite restaurant is Arnold\u2019s in Nashville. Meat and three veg. It\u2019s like greasy but for real Southern food. <\/p>\n

Drink<\/strong> That\u2019s easy. Jack Daniels. Straight. The best thing to come out of Tennessee. <\/p>\n

Person in the world<\/strong> My wife Elisabeth. Oh yeah! Ain\u2019t no question about that. She\u2019s my best friend. <\/p>\n

Place in the world<\/strong> The Big Sur coastline in California. One time me and my wife and my first boy, we didn\u2019t have nowhere to live and we just driving in Big Sur and we all slept on the side of the road. It was just one of those magic nights, you know, where we didn\u2019t get bothered and it was real beautiful. It was almost kinda like camping. Real special. But I don\u2019t like holidays. I always seemed to be in jail on holidays. I don\u2019t have no relationship to holidays. <\/p>\n

Possession<\/strong> My pocket watch, which I have on me right now. But if I had to choose between that and one of my guitars, I\u2019d keep my old beat-up brown acoustic guitar. Someone gave it to me a long time ago. It didn\u2019t even have a name on it. It\u2019s real old, I think from the 1800s. <\/p>\n

Body part<\/strong> My hands because that\u2019s what I use the most. Without the hands I couldn\u2019t play the guitar and then I\u2019d be very bored\u2026 My favourite tattoo is my rolling dice. That\u2019s how life is for me. I never know what the day will roll. <\/p>\n

Item of clothing<\/strong> My denim overalls. You English call them dungarees. I\u2019ve worn them my whole life. I started wearing them when I was a little boy. <\/p>\n

Animal<\/strong> Dog. My German Shepherd died last year. He was called Boss because he was the boss. <\/p>\n

Proper job<\/strong> I never had many jobs that I liked. But I used to like working in the carnival when I was a kid. I set up the bumper cars. <\/p>\n

Film<\/strong> I like that old cowboy film Shane<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Movie star<\/strong> Clint Eastwood. <\/p>\n

TV show<\/strong> I used to like Wagon Train<\/em> back in the 50s, with Clint Eastwood. Actually, you know what? I take that back. Rawhide<\/em> was my favourite when I was a kid. I didn\u2019t watch TV too much over my life though. Rawhide\u2026 that was it! <\/p>\n

Work of art<\/strong> I ain\u2019t so much into art. I don\u2019t go look at art much but one time someone took me over to one of these museums in London where the Van Gogh pictures were. I was impressed with the light coming from them. <\/p>\n

Book<\/strong> Jim Grim<\/em> by Talbot Mundy. It\u2019s kinda pulp adventure set back in the 1920s and 30s. Some of it takes place in the British time in India and Afghanistan. People keep asking me if I ever read On The Road<\/em>. I never read a book about none of that stuff. It\u2019s only in the last few years that I even heard of this Jack Kerouac character. I doubt he ever rode a freight train, anyway. <\/p>\n

Sport<\/strong> I played baseball when I was a kid. I was a catcher. I also liked playing first base. I used to like watching baseball a little bit, too. But now I kinda like watching football, which y\u2019all got over here in England. At least there\u2019s lots of action going on so I\u2019ll watch it if it\u2019s on the TV. But I don\u2019t know nothing about no teams. <\/p>\n

Comedian <\/strong>My kid played me a little bit of that Bill Bailey. I like him. He was pretty funny. <\/p>\n

Musician<\/strong> I\u2019d have to say Mississippi Fred McDowell. Helluva nice guy. I never played with him but I could\u2019ve and I blew it! He said, \u2018If you wanna come down here and play you can\u2019 and I was doing something else so I didn\u2019t do it. And now he\u2019s dead. <\/p>\n

Song<\/strong> “You Only Hurt The One You Love” by The Inkspots. <\/p>\n

Gig I\u2019ve seen <\/strong> James Brown. 1963 or 64. Oakland, California. Ain\u2019t no-one ever even come close to him. <\/p>\n

Gig I\u2019ve played<\/strong> This year at Glastonbury. 65,000 people is a lot of energy comin\u2019 atcha. It was like getting hit with a wave. <\/p>\n

Motto<\/strong> It\u2019s all good. Cause These days it\u2019s the stayin\u2019 alive cause. That\u2019s a good one for me. <\/p>\n

Photography: Ben Rayner
\nWords: Lousie Brealey and Ben Cobb<\/p>\n

A full version of this article first appeared in <\/em>Wonderland #15, October\/November 2008<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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