CW Stoneking

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CW Stoneking, 2009
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Albums
Jungle blues
  AU 45 11/02/2008 (2 weeks)
Gon 'Boogaloo
  AU 17th 11/02/2014 (2 weeks)

CW Stoneking (born 1974 in Katherine , Northern Territory ), full name Christopher William Stoneking , is an Australian blues singer , songwriter , guitarist and banjo player . He lives in Melbourne and performs both solo and with his Primitive Horn Orchestra .

Life and music

Stoneking was born to American parents in Northern Australia in March 1974 and grew up in the Aboriginal community of Papunya with his father, the writer and teacher Billy Marshall Stoneking , until he was nine years old . Then they moved to Balmain , a suburb of Sydney . Stoneking started playing guitar at the age of eleven and from thirteen he played mainly acoustic blues in various bands. In 1995 he moved from Sydney to Naroghid in rural Victoria and in 1997 to Melbourne where he began performing solo as a blues singer and guitarist in the style of the 1920s and 1930s.

In 1998 CW Stoneking founded The Blue Tits, a band whose line-up consisted of double bass , clarinet and mandolin with Stoneking on guitar and vocals. However, the band split a year and a half later after the mandolin player's death. Although the Blue Tits had recorded an album for the Melbourne radio station 3CR , this was never released commercially . Stoneking initially continued as a solo artist. Under the title King Hokum he recorded an album with his own compositions in 2005, which received a lot of critical acclaim after its release in Australia in 2006 and in 2007 by the Swiss record label Voodoo Rhythm Records in Europe. Radio host Tim Ritchie voted it Album of the Year 2006 on Radio National Breakfast . Further awards in Australia followed. In 2008 Stoneking released the album Jungle Blues , which was just as successful. The singer Kirsty Fraser has a guest appearance on a title here.

CW Stoneking's music is a mix of popular styles from the first half of the 20th century. He plays with his Primitive Horn Orchestra a mixture of Hokum -Blues, New Orleans jazz , calypso and country - Yodels , presented in the appropriate vintage style with a voice that strongly quieter pieces of a Tom Waits recalls.

Awards

  • Radio National Breakfast : King Hokum as "Album of the Year 2006"
  • ARIA Awards 2007: King Hokum nominated as "Best Blues / Roots Album"
  • AIR Awards 2007: "Best Independent Blues Release" for King Hokum
  • ARIA Awards 2009: Jungle Blues nominated as "Best Blues / Roots Album", "Best Independent Release", "Best Male Artist" and "Best Album Cover Art"
  • AIR Awards 2009: "Best Independent Blues / Roots Album" for Jungle Blues . Also nominated as "Best Independent Album" and "Independent Artist of the Year".

Discography

  • CW Stoneking (1998)
  • CW Stoneking & The Blue Tits (live - 1999)
  • Mississippi & Piedmont Blues 1927-1941 (2006)
  • King Hokum (2006)
  • Jungle Blues (2008)
  • Hiram and Huddie - Vol. 1 & 2 (Compilation - 2009)
  • CW Stoneking's King Hokum (2011)
  • Gon 'Boogaloo (2014)

swell

  1. ↑ Chart discography Australia
  2. ^ Radio National Breakfast
  3. ↑ a b ARIA Awards
  4. ^ A b Australian Independent Record Labels Association

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personal data
SURNAME Stoneking, CW
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stoneking, Christopher William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian blues musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Katherine , Northern Territory , Australia