C.W. Stoneking - C.W. Stoneking

Size: 75,0 MB - 217 MB
Time: 32:44
File: MP3 @ 320K/s - Flac
Released: 2000
Styles: Acoustic blues
Art: Full

1. She's Got Something There (2:06)
2. Death Letter (4:25)
3. Love In Vain (2:56)
4. Kansas Blues (2:31)
5. Way Down in New Orleans (3:02)
6. Police Seargent Blues (2:17)
7. Fare Thee Well Blues (2:56)
8. Ramblin' On My Mind (4:00)
9. Malted Milk (3:12)
10. Beans (2:29)
11. Going Back To Arkansas (2:44)

C.W. Stoneking is an artist for whom ‘unexpected’ is probably the default setting. How else to describe such a fine purveyor of American roots music who also happens to be a towering, youthful-faced white Australian man? He surprises first-time listeners, throws curveballs at long-time fans, and everything he does contains at least some background level of bafflement for all involved. There are multitudes in Stoneking’s music. It’s probably easiest to describe him as a ‘blues artist,’ but the term disguises what makes his music special. There’s so much in there. A 1920s pre-war blues sound is key, but there’s almost equal helpings of New Orleans jazz, jug band music, hokum, country and calypso, and he’s lately brought in elements of jump jive, early rock’n’roll and gospel. His gift is that he brings them all together without anything sounding out of place. He finds the strands that connect all of these different styles and gently braids them together. It’s what he values more than anything: “It’s getting everything to unify really. The music, the flow of it, keeping it moving, with no dead spots. Then I guess having the lyrics and the meaning that flows in that too, you know? Getting it all to knit together in a way that, if you didn’t speak English maybe, you’d still be able to feel the melody, or the sounds of the words. If you did, then the meaning would also flow. That’s sort of what I’m trying to do, I guess.” When so many on the blues scene are trying to sound ‘authentic’ – whatever that is – it’s that unity of sound that allows Stoneking to actually achieve it, and with apparent ease, too. Back in the day, no-one was ‘just’ a blues musician, or a jazz or country musician, and so neither is he.

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C.W. Stoneking - King Hokum

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Time: 37:03
Size: 86.4 MB
Styles: Acoustic country blues, Roots
Released: 2007
Art: Front

1. Way Out In The World (3:11)
2. Don't Go Dancin Down The Darktown Strutter's Ball (3:38)
3. She's A Bread Baker (3:17)
4. Dodo Blues (3:50)
5. On A Christmas Day (2:46)
6. Charley Bostocks Blues (3:34)
7. Goin The Country (3:04)
8. Bad Luck Everywhere You Go (4:22)
9. Rich Man's Blues (3:01)
10. You Took My Thing And Put It In Your Place (2:50)
11. Handyman Blues (3:25)

He plays guitar like a demon, wears natty threads, sings catchy tunes and mutters to himself. The idiosyncratic c.w. stoneking is a true entertainer who relies on musicianship stagecraft and performance to invoke the spirit of the 1920's deep south blues in his original hokum style. Set in an imaginary old-time southern town populated with singing dodo birds, sinister handymen, broken-hearted street singers and old testament field hollerers, the album also features c.w.'s backing band the primitive horn orchestra on a number of tunes. Produced by j. Walker (machine translations) and containing 11 of c.w.'s original numbers, the album is a unique blend of old time blues and jazz that sounds like it was recorded in the 1920's. This is one of the most acclaimed australian albums of the last few years.best blues & roots album (air awards) and album of the year (abc radio national breakfast show 2006)! Cw is such a singular talent that his audience has expanded beyond blues and jazz listeners into mainstream and alternative audiences who have simply never heard anything like him.

King Hokum

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C.W. Stoneking - Jungle Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:44
Size: 127.6 MB
Styles: Acoustic country blues
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[3:54] 1. Jungle Blues
[4:33] 2. Talkin Lion Blues
[4:33] 3. Talkin' Lion Blues
[4:46] 4. Jungle Lullaby
[3:42] 5. Brave Son Of America
[4:33] 6. Jailhouse Blues
[3:33] 7. Housebound Blues
[3:38] 8. Household Blues
[3:52] 9. I Heard The Marchin Of The Drum
[3:56] 10. I Heard The Marchin' Of The Drums
[3:54] 11. The Love Me Or Die
[3:26] 12. Early In The Mornin
[3:36] 13. Early In The Mornin'
[3:41] 14. The Greatest Liar

Repressing. 2008 album from the guitar and tenor banjo player, singer/songwriter and raconteur. Inspired in part by his amazing experiences as a survivor of a shipwreck off Africa's West Coast in 1998, it draws on the Blues of the Southern U.S.A., Calypso music of Trinidad, jungle Jazz of the 1920 s, and hillbilly music of the 1930 s for a musical journey into a heart of darkness. Ranging from full-blown jungle epics to desolate guitar and singing-country-blues, the album tells the Jungle Blues story from all sides. Opening with the title track, 'Jungle Blues' invokes the tale of a poor shipwrecked soul stranded in the jungles of darkest Africa. What follows are hair-raising stories that will haunt your dreams, and voodoo tunes evoking memorable scenes from the world of the jungle.

Jungle Blues mc
Jungle Blues zippy

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C.W. Stoneking - Gon' Boogaloo

Released: 2014
Size: 95.0 MB
Time: 41:25
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. How Long [3:13]
2. The Zombie [3:53]
3. Get On The Floor [3:47]
4. The Thing I Done [3:20]
5. Tomorrow Gon' Be Too Late [3:05]
6. Mama Got The Blues [3:24]
7. Goin' Back South [3:30]
8. The Jungle Swing [3:15]
9. Good Luck Charm [2:45]
10. I'm The Jungle Man [2:59]
11. On a Desert Isle [4:41]
12. We Gon' Boogaloo [3:27]

Gon' Boogaloo is his first in more than six years. That's a long time given the international momentum the Aussie growler was packing by the time he hollered Jungle Blues on the prestigious UK TV show Later … with Jools Holland in October 2010.

The two freshest names on his left hand explain that gap to some extent. But even after he moved the whole family to England, he kept up a daily songwriting regimen for the best part of two years, looking for his next leap forward.

"It's hard to make a new type of thing. It took me a long time. I've been trying to not make songs about the jungle," he says, smiling. That part didn't work. "In the end I just had to give up tryin'. But that was like three years wasted avoiding it, you know what I mean?"

What wasn't wasted on this leg of the jungle cruise, from Melbourne to Britain and back to a new home in northwest Victoria, was studio time. Gon' Boogaloo was recorded and mixed in two days, live, in a stone building out Castlemaine way with two microphones capturing the whole swinging scene in single takes of impeccably distorted goodness.

With the Jungle Blues horn section retired and a spooky new gaggle of girly back-up singers, it's certainly a new type of thing for Stoneking. For the rest of us Spotify streamers though, it sounds about as old as rekkids get.

Gon' Boogaloo

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