Podcasts

Recorded live on 98.9fm’s Drive Show. 8 Ball Aitken is back with ‘The Tamworth Tapes’, the fourth album for the red-headed guitar-slinger. He takes a swampy, alt.country/blues turn at the Country Music Capital of Australia, recording straight to tape in Tamworth’s famed Enrec Studio, producing and playing every instrument on the album himself — including guitars, slide-guitars, banjo, harmonica, bass, and percussion. The first single & music video from ‘The Tamworth Tapes’ is ‘Rogue Pony’, which is released at the same time as the album on February 18 nationally through MGM Distribution and Phoenix Movement Records. 8 Ball Aitken is the redneck preacher at the shotgun wedding between country and blues. It doesn’t matter which part of the family you’re from — what does matter is the funky foot-stomping hullaballoo at the all-night party afterwards.Hailing from Far North Queensland, he grew up as a teenager in a run-down tobacco shed, making a living picking tropical fruits by day and picking guitars by night. 8 Ball’s first break came when he was hired to play nightly at the infamous Johno’s Blues Bar in Cairns.