Some new music today from C.W. Stoneking or maybe I should say new old music. The music could just as easily be from the deep south in the 20's or 30's but it's not, it's brand new music being made in the land down under in Melbourne, Australia. Stoneking has captured with such authenticity the gritty storytelling blues style of a time now long past that you'd swear Alan Lomax was there with his field recorder capturing it.

Bio:
Born to American parents in Katherine, Northern Territory, in 1974, CW was raised in the Aboriginal community of Papunya, (about 240 km northwest of Alice Springs). After his parents separated early on, his musical father raised him whilst teaching in the settlements. “I used to hear a lot of records from my dad with a lot of the 60s vocal groups from the States and things like that. He used to sing tunes with the guitar for me at bedtime when I was very small, like ‘Candyman’, and ‘Froggie Went a’Courtin’.”
It wasn’t until after he moved to Balmain in Sydney aged 11 that Stoneking began learning guitar. His interest in the blues was sparked as a teenager after stumbling across some tapes of two country-blues legends; Blind Willie McTell and Memphis Minnie.

Be sure to catch one of his upcoming North American shows and experience it firsthand:
April 18th NEW YORK, Banjo Jim’s
April 19th ROSENDALE, Rosendale Cafe
April 20th NEW YORK, Rockwood Music Hall
April 21st PHILADELPHIA, Johnny Brendas
April 22nd, NEW YORK, Pete’s Candy Store
April 26th, TORONTO, Drake Hotel TBC

C.W. Stone King - Dodo Blues
C.W. Stone King - Goin' The Country
Buy King Hokum



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