C.W. Stoneking

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C.W. Stoneking is an Australian Hokum, delta blues and country blues singer and guitarist. He lives in Gippsland and performs reguarly in the inner Melbourne suburbs of Brunswick and Fitzroy, sometimes with his "Primative Horn Orchestra".

Disc jockey Tim Ritchie picked Stoneking's 2006 album King Hokum as his album of the year on Radio National's Breakfast program [1]. Radio National also presented his February 2007 Australia wide tour.

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[edit] Biography

CW Stoneking was born to Californian parents in Katherine, Australia in 1974 and raised in the Aboriginal community of Papunya.[2] His interest in the blues was sparked whilst he was attending Sydney's Balmain High School, after stumbling across some tapes of two country-blues legends: Blind Willie McTell and Memphis Minnie.[3]

[edit] Discographhy

  • King Hokum - 2006
  • C.W. Stoneking & The Blue Tits - 1999

[edit] References

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