C.W. Stoneking Wins Best Blues & Roots Album of the Year!

For those who don’t already know, C.W. STONEKING won the Aria Award for BEST BLUES & ROOTS ALBUM of the year at the Australian music industry’s ‘night of nights’ last Thursday.

For those of you who still haven’t picked up a copy of JUNGLE BLUES, get a few for Xmas - keep one and give the rest as pressies to the relos and friends.

Also, sign up five firends to the CW Dedication Society at Facebook !!!

Vote for C.W. Stoneking

CW Stoneking has been nominated for FOUR Arias in next month’s Aria Awards presentation:

Best Male Artist,
Best Independant Release (Jungle Blues),
Best Blues and Roots Album (Jungle Blues) and
Best Breakthrough Artist.

VOTE for him NOW at the HeraldSun Poll.

C.W. Stoneking: Jungle Blues

By AMANDA BRUMFIELD
Pop-Rock Candy Mountain

C.W. Stoneking was born in Australia and spent a good portion of his childhood living in the remote Aboriginal town of Papunya. His parents moved the family to Sydney when Stoneking was eleven, and at the age of 23 he set out on his own eventually landing in Melbourne. It was there that Stoneking formed the band The Blue Tits who recorded one album before breaking up after the death of their mandolin player.

Stoneking continued to play and record his original mix of blues/hokum/jungle music as a solo artist and in 2006 released the remarkably brilliant blues/hokum album, King Hokum.

“He’s a national treasure,” says Australian musical legend, J. Walker, who produced King Hokum. “The first time I met him, I was amazed because he had a fob watch in his waistcoat and I remember thinking, this guy’s straight out of the dust bowl of the 1930s. I think that style of music that he does is the bedrock of everything that came afterwards,” Walker adds, “I’m just amazed that he exists because I never thought I’d see anything like it.”

Stoneking’s newest album, Jungle Blues, was released on October 18th and- taking a shortcut through my poetic self indulgence- this album will simplyblow your mind. It is authentic, it is honest and it is without a doubt one of the best albums of the year.
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