"If anyone is well placed to record simply under lockdown conditions, surely it is Steve Wold, better known as Seasick Steve, a man who at his most humble beginnings couldn't even afford the full six strings on his guitar - or so goes the legend ... As the title suggests, Blues In Mono is the basic package - one voice, one guitar, one microphone, recorded in tribute to the original bluesmen captured in the field recordings of the 1930s and 40s, ...".