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C.W. Stoneking

$20 ($17 adv.).

press release: Born in Australia to American parents, C.W. Stoneking spent most of his early life living with his father – a teacher and poet – in the Aboriginal community of Papunya. At the age of 9, Stoneking and his father moved to Sydney where he picked up his first guitar at the age of 11 and began playing with local musicians. By the time Stoneking was in high school, he found himself falling in love with pre-war American blues – in an interview with NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly, Stoneking traces the genesis of his sound to a two-album cassette-tape he once owned. “One side of it was a compilation of Texas blues out of, like, the 1950s, and the other side was a '20s and '30s blues artist and guitar player. As a guitar player, I was always impressed with those sort of early ways of playing the guitar in the blues era” he explains.

Continuing to support his latest full-length album Gon’ Boogaloo, Stoneking pulls out songs from across his entire catalog during his solo headline set, including debut LP King Hokum and his 2009 ARIA Award-Winning LP Jungle Blues (Best Blues and Roots Album). Recently, Stoneking collaborated with Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme for a Christmas Charity duet of “Silent Night” and Jack White featured Stoneking on his 2018 album Boarding House Reach – utilizing his unique voice for the LP’s spoken word piece “Abulia and Akrasia.”

With new music in works, be sure to catch C.W. Stoneking as he closes out his West Coast tour with a week of shows in California and next month when he returns the Midwest. For all up-to-date information on music and tour dates, please stay tuned to www.cwstoneking.com.