CW Stoneking

CW Stoneking reminds me more of Beck (when he was doing all the ol’ timey blues stuff characterised best by his album One Foot In The Grave) than of anyone else.
Nor do I think Stoneking sounds ‘black’ – he sounds like one of those good ole boys from somewhere in the south. It’s something in his timing or his phrasing… something in the way he treats timing. I keep thinking of that line I read somewhere, that music reflects the vocal or linguistic structures of the people who create it. Singing ‘black’ is more than adding in an accent. It’s about intonation and a subtler sense of pitch – more than just going ‘up’ and the end a sentence to make something sound Australian.
Anyways, I scored both his CDs for christmas from The Squeeze and I like them both a lot.