With his skull mask and smoking pipe, CW Stoneking looks like a nineteenth-century vaudeville artist who has just finished an ominous voodoo act. Nothing is less true. Stoneking was born in Australia in 1974, but has been fascinated all his life by blues and jazz from a mythical, pre-war America. With his album Jungle Blues (2010), he also found an audience in the Netherlands for his primal blues.
Successor Gon 'Boogaloo continues in the same old-fashioned way. Stoneking has the voice of an old blues shooter who had to keep the attention of the tipsy audience even in the roughest juke joints. The playing on the electric guitar and banjo also sounds primitive, while the rhythm often consists of nothing more than stamping feet on the ground. Perfect material for the growing army of young jazz and blues nostalgics. (PdK)more
