“The incomparable, inexplicable blues savant, C.W. Stoneking” Mohair Slim - PBS F.M.
“You gotta check this fella out named C.W. Stoneking, this boy’s lost in the 1920s and 30s, he not kinda, he really lost.” Seasick Steve
“Eerily phenomenal. Like stumbling across a New Orleans funeral band being led by a ghost. In a music world dominated by cynical mediocrity, it’s beyond delightful to hear someone doing the never-be-fashionable so well.” Mark Lamarr
“There’s a thin line between pastiche and honestly trying to recapture the original rough-shod, rough-voiced blues. CW Stoneking falls on the right side of divide, serving up an album of down-home blues which moved between the world-weary, the saucy and the satirical. On King Hokum, Stoneking channels the old blue-singers without sounding like pastiche, and modern without sounding lifeless. He’s got the blues, and we should all revel in them.” Rough Trade shops UK
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 Resophonic guitar and tenor banjo, or with 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’ recorded in 2005, contained 11 original songs and highlighted C.W.‘s skill as a composer as well as showcasing his tremendous vocal and instrumental style. Conjuring the atmosphere of 1930s Southern blues with Stoneking’s unique storytelling style, the backing of his band the Primitive Horn Orchestra, and the use of found sounds and samples. King Hokum is as original and diverse an album as it is an authentic sounding one.
2008 saw the release of C.W. Stoneking’s latest album, ‘Jungle Blues’. Inspired in part by Stoneking’s amazing experience as a survivor of a shipwreck off Africa’s West Coast. ‘Jungle Blues’ is available on King Hokum Records/Shock.
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