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C.W. Stoneking - COMPOSER OF BLUES, HOKUM, AND JUNGLE MUSIC

C.W. Stoneking, is a musician who draws influence from pre-war blues, jazz, 1920s calypso, folklore, and personal experience to produce his original songs. Accompanied with his trusty National Reso-Phonic guitar and tenor banjo, and his brass band the 'Primitive Horn Orchestra' Stoneking's songs range in style from lonesome field holler blues, to hokum blues duets, to full blown jungle epics.

C.W. Stoneking's album, 'King Hokum' conjured the atmosphere of an imaginary 1920s/30s Deep South landscape, populated with old testament field hollerers, singing dodo birds, sinister handymen, and  risque hokum blues vaudeville entertainers.

2008 saw the release of C.W. Stoneking's album, 'Jungle Blues', inspired in part by Stoneking's experience as the survivor of a shipwreck off Africa's West Coast. 'Jungle Blues' blends the exotic sounds of 1930s 'jungle jazz' with raw southern blues and Trinidadian calypso to fuel Stoneking's storytelling lyrical style and take the listener on a vivid journey into a musical 'heart of darkness'. 'Jungle Blues' won Best Independent Blues/Roots Album in the 2009 ARIA Awards, Best Independent Blues Album in the 2009 AIR Awards, and was shortlisted in the 2008Australian Music Prize.

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