8 Ball Aitken
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Rogue Pony
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Yellow Moon
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Cyclone Country
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Cowboy Movie
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General Info
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Genre: Americana / Blues / Country
Location Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Profile Views: 109554
Last Login: 5/3/2013
Member Since 7/24/2005
Website www.8ballaitken.com
Record Label Phoenix Movement Records/ MGM (Australia)
Type of Label Indie
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Bio
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, Australia 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. -
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New 8 Ball Aitken Cartoon: Yellow Moon Rises Over The Swamp - http://t.co/7hIMoEuy27
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♫ New Date: Fort Worth, TX - Jun 2 at Wood Shed Smokehouse http://t.co/bhGjAHmSqL
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♫ Just Announced: Fort Worth, TX - Jun 2 at Wood Shed Smokehouse http://t.co/C4mdRdaFXQ
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♫ Just Announced: Franklin, TN - Apr 17 at Bunganut Pig Pub http://t.co/Hy2Izj3DCr
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8 Ball Aitken - Rogue Pony
02:57 | 195 plays | Jan 27 2011
Music
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10 Songs | Sep 21, 2008
Comments
- Amnesiac quartet, Tribu…2 years ago
Thank you, nice to meet you ! Happy Holidays, www.jazzseb.com
- Placebo Cure2 years ago
G'day 8 Ball, Thanks for becoming our friend, I hope you enjoy our music....Cheers, DJ.
- Jørgen Petersen2 years ago
I'll come and see you @Central Hotel on Jan. 13 when I am back in Tamworth again!
- WILD LIFE.2 years ago
sunny greetings from ganjayard to you 8 Ball Aitken - Acoustic Eagle2 years ago
I haven't seen your new video yet but will. 'Cowboy Movie' is one of my favourites on the album. Sort of rings true for me.
- AL ANDALUS FLAMENCO2 years ago
Hola!
Gracias y Bienvenidos!!!
Besos... - Ronald2 years ago
>>Happy Birthday 8 Ball<<
A birthday is a million moments,
Each holding a promise of ur dreams,
Accomplishments of some special plans.
Wish U a very “Happy Birthday”. - KITT2 years ago
Hey 8 Ball!
KITT dutyfully says THANK YOU! We hope you come to visit our profile and listen to „TINY LITTLE PUNKROCKGIRL!“ the first new favourite song we published here! ;-)
We’re happy about any feedback!
Greetings from Lippstadt
KITT - Acoustic Eagle2 years ago
I was reading your list of influences and can see some of those artists in your music. Could I add also ZZ Top (maybe it's the beard too) and Creedence Clearwater Revival? Got "Rebel With a Cause" in the mail this week...and lovin' it. Thanks!
- Ronald3 years ago
Thanks 8 Ball Aitken for the cool Gig in Lippstadt!
Great Music!
Mustache
Ronald <:o)
Bio:
Australia’s best-loved banana picker (turned full‐time guitar picker) 8 Ball Aitken is touring with his award winning third album, ‘REBEL WITH A CAUSE’.8 Ball Aitken is authentic ‐‐ a real‐deal character who rattles the roof, stomps the planks, and gets his audiences whooping and hollering along in a frenzy of pure exuberance. He plays a sizzling hot blend of original blues, roots & country music. Coming from a farming community in Far North Queensland, 8 Ball Aitken is the oldest son of an impoverished family of twelve children. 8 Ball spent his adolescence on a banana plantation, living in a rough tobacco shed with resident rats, bats, snakes, and spiders as his sleeping companions.
He started work as a farm labourer aged fifteen, doing back‐breakingly hard work on the mango and banana plantations of the Atherton Tablelands, a man's work for a boy's pay. A life‐changing conversation with an Aboriginal elder, who told him he should pursue a career in music, convinced 8 Ball to pack his bags, grab his guitar, and leave the farm to meet his destiny.
8 Ball won a 2009 Q Song Award for his song ‘OUTBACK BOOTY CALL’. Another song, ‘YELLOW MOON’, has won the EMI Music Blues & Roots Song of the Year at the Q Song Awards. His singles ‘CYCLONE COUNTRY’ & ‘HANDS ON TOP OF THE WHEEL’ have both been top 10 country hits around Australia in 2008 / 2009.
‘CYCLONE COUNTRY’ earned 8 Ball a 2009 Golden Guitar award nomination. The first single ‘COWBOY MOVIE’(from album ‘REBEL WITH A CAUSE’) was nominated for the 2009 APRA Blues & Roots Song of The Year, and has received radio airplay around in twenty‐six countries, including charting in the European Country Music Top 40.
8 Ball has taken his unique blues & roots sound to festivals and clubs across the world, including Australia, Europe, Japan and Canada, including Canadian Music Week 2009 and the Stan Rogers Festival. He’s toured in Japan four times, where he headlined the popular Rokko Sun Music Festival. He has played a string of dates in Singapore, the UK (including a live appearance on the BBC), Poland, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway.
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