This was same instrument that Blind Boy Fuller and other blues legends chose to play. It seemed like there was an endless universe of blues to explore, one that was much more interesting to Stoneking than the mundane world of late ’80s pop that was all around him at the time.įlash forward a few years and CW has taught himself the banjo and electric guitar, but his prized possession is a 1931 National Duolian dobro. He vividly remembers being eleven years old and stumbling across Living With The Blues, an early blues compilation, in his father’s collection: “When I first heard it I thought it was kinda funny music”, he told a Dutch interviewer a few years ago, “because it was so deconstructed and not really adhering to any rules that I’d been told music fit into.Īnd the more I listened to it, I just liked it more and more.” Soon his curiosity led him to Son House, Robert Johnson, Skip James and Bukka White, gospel blues, Chicago blues, ragtime, Hokum blues, with each sub-genre revealing more amazing music. Stoneking fell in love with the blues when he was in his teens.īorn in Katherine, in Australia’s remote Northern Territory, CW was the son of an American school teacher with a passion for music. Stoneking, KV Raucous and Godfrey & Tod Where: Palomino Smokehouse and Social Club 109 7 Avenue S.W Calgary When: Monday OctoDoors: 8:30pm/Bands 9:30pm Admission: $15.00 Advance Available at or C.W.