“I gradually got deeper and deeper into blues, and it pretty much became what I was into all the time. “I was hanging with different people, and some older guys who were musicians,” Stoneking recalls in his laid-back Aussie drawl. Along the way, in open rebellion against the ubiquity of late-’80s pop all around him, he’d so idealized and internalized the very idea of the Blues that he stumbled onto a signature all his own. His father’s record collection was an eclectic mix that ranged from early blues to classic ’50s gospel, inspiring the youngster to pick up a guitar, teach himself some songs, leave high school, and start busking on the streets of Sydney. A small-town native of Australia’s remote Northern Territory, Stoneking grew up in a household that encouraged musical curiosity. Fever visions of sweaty juke joints, late-night rent parties, and uptown nightclubs packed with lindy hoppers rise up from the black shellac grooves like heat from a Mississippi highway, invoking all the promises of mystery, romance, redemption, and revenge that have drawn blues players to the guitar for more than a century.īut this particular singer-songwriter isn’t just duplicating the sound and style of a bygone era. Drop a needle on a dusty old jazz or blues 78 from the ’40s, and you’ll get an inkling of how it feels to hear C.W.
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