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Cheap, Steve's debut studio album, was released in 2004. It consists of songs by him and his Swedish/Norwegian band The Level Devils, and also two stories from his life as a hobo. The Level Devils consisted at this time of Kai Christoffersen playing the drums and Jo Husmo bass. Dan Magnusson subsequently took over drumming duties. A Roland CUBE 30W amplifier placed on a chair to his left and set to the 'tweed' setting. [59] Fender Bassman [ edit ] Man from Another Time, Steve's fourth studio album, was released in October 2009. The album peaked to No. 4 on the UK Albums Chart. a b "Later with Jools Holland - Latest show information and exclusive performances filmed for the web". BBC. 2011-07-12 . Retrieved 2011-12-30.

He has toured the UK extensively since 2007 being supported by performers including Duke Garwood, Gemma Ray, Billie the Vision and the Dancers, Amy LaVere, Melody Nelson and Joe Gideon & The Shark. His tours in October 2008 and January 2009 were all sold out and included performances at the Royal Albert Hall, the Edinburgh Queen's Hall, the Grand Opera House in Belfast, the Apollo in Manchester, the City Hall in Newcastle and the London Hammersmith Apollo. [42] [43] [44]In an interview with an Australian magazine, Wold attributed much of his unlikely success to his cheap and weather-beaten guitar, "The Trance Wonder" and reveals the guitar's mojo might come from supernatural sources. Around 1980, Steve Leach returned to Europe. [31] In 1982, he appeared as singer and guitarist on an album, Women and Sports, by the band Clean, Athletic & Talented (C.A.T.), co-writing their single "I Love To Touch Young Girls". [4] He met Elisabeth Wold in a blues bar in Oslo, Norway, and adopted her surname after she became his second wife. For a time in the early 1980s, he lived in London, and then with Elisabeth in Skelmersdale, England, which biographer Wright notes is the location of a major Transcendental Meditation movement center. [32] He later claimed to have run a recording studio in Europe before selling it. [33]

Steve has also announced a run of intimate concerts to celebrate the release of the album. The dates, which will be an opportunity to see him and Crazy Dan close up in some fantastic grass roots venues, are partnered with record stores across the UK.Steve Wold was born in Oakland, California, as Steven Gene Leach, though his biographer suggests that he may have been adopted as a baby. He took the surname Wold in the early 1980s, from that of his second wife. [15] In 2000, he gave his age as 50, [16] though later publicity implied that he was older. Official birth records confirm his birth year as 1951. [2] He left California in 1972 and moved to Paris, France, where he busked in the Métro. [26] He occasionally returned to California where he married Victoria Johnson in 1974; they had two sons together but later divorced. [27] Wold also spent time in the 1970s in Hawaii, and worked as a session musician and studio engineer, as well as in occasional manual jobs. He has claimed to have played with other musicians including Son House, John Lee Hooker, Albert King, and Joni Mitchell around this time. [6] In 1976, he worked with French producer Lee Hallyday and fronted the disco group Crystal Grass. [4] Leach appeared on two Crystal Grass albums released by Philips Records in France, Dance Up a Storm and Ocean Potion, the latter credited to Steve Leach with the Crystal Grass Orchestra. The group also released several singles including "You Can Be What You Dream". [28] [4] [29] He also sang on the first album released by Mike Love's side project Celebration, a collaboration with members of the Paris-based band King Harvest. [30] a b California Birth Index, 1905-1995. Sacramento, CA, USA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics, Ancestry.com. Retrieved August 4, 2019