It remains one of the most remarkable breakthroughs in music history. The nervous and disheveled figure who played his punk-blues song Dog House Boogie before Jools Holland and his dumbstruck Hootenanny audience that New Years Eve 2006 seemed to have emerged from nowhere. Apparently a sixty-five-year-old former hobo, Steve played his trademark three string guitar (aka The Three-String Trance Wonder) and stomped on a wooden box with a Mississippi motorcycle plate stuck on (aka The Mississippi Drum Machine). His Norwegian studio had recently failed, he d had a heart attack, and he was only known among a tiny community of hardcore blues fans, yet by the next morning he was famous.