Heart and Soul

Better Than You Found Me

Never Giving Up on You

The Woman I Love

Singing on a Sunny Day

Better For It All

We Are All in This Together

Righteous Loving

When Will It End?

Make a Change

Empathy

Southern Hemisphere

Underneath the Stars

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 &amp; 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. 

Since the release of his first album ‘Behind The 8 Ball’ in 2003, 8 Ball has toured to date across every state and territory of Australia. He has also built a strong international profile, having played festival and club shows throughout Europe, USA, Canada &amp; Japan. Highlights include gigs at the Americana Festival in Nashville, The Folk Alliance in Memphis, Canadian Music Week in Toronto and many others. He’s toured in Japan four times, where he headlined the popular Rokko Sun Music Festival. He has also performed extensively in Germany, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway and the UK.

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 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’s third album ‘Rebel With A Cause’ had several award wins including a Southern Star Award and two Q Song Awards (for ‘Outback Booty Call’ &amp; ‘Yellow Moon’). His singles ‘Cyclone Country’ &amp; ‘Hands On Top Of The Wheel’ have both been top 10 country hits around Australia. ‘Cyclone Country’ earned 8 Ball his first Golden Guitar award nomination while single ‘Cowboy Movie’ was a finalist in the APRA Blues &amp; Roots Song of The Year Awards.

‘The Tamworth Tapes’ was released nationally through MGM Distribution in February, 2011 and 8 Ball has hit the road touring throughout Australia to promote the new album.


Rogue Pony

Hit The Road

Chocolate, Jack Daniels And LSD

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. 

Since the release of his first album ‘Behind The 8 Ball’ in 2003, 8 Ball has toured to date across every state and territory of Australia. He has also built a strong international profile, having played festival and club shows throughout Europe, USA, Canada &amp; Japan. Highlights include gigs at the Americana Festival in Nashville, The Folk Alliance in Memphis, Canadian Music Week in Toronto and many others. He’s toured in Japan four times, where he headlined the popular Rokko Sun Music Festival. He has also performed extensively in Germany, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway and the UK.

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 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’s third album ‘Rebel With A Cause’ had several award wins including a Southern Star Award and two Q Song Awards (for ‘Outback Booty Call’ &amp; ‘Yellow Moon’). His singles ‘Cyclone Country’ &amp; ‘Hands On Top Of The Wheel’ have both been top 10 country hits around Australia. ‘Cyclone Country’ earned 8 Ball his first Golden Guitar award nomination while single ‘Cowboy Movie’ was a finalist in the APRA Blues &amp; Roots Song of The Year Awards.


Rebel With a Cause

Cyclone Country

The first single going to Texas Country radio  from the new album "8 Ball Aitken".  you can download it at iTunes, Amazon or Google Play

She's Going to Mexico, I'm Going to Jail

Swamp Blues

Lindy Loo

High Water

Week Man

Murderers Bar: Swamp Blues 2

My Sexy Guitar

Ice Cream Man

What Goes Up

Boomerang

Peace, Love and Understanding

Weight Of The World

Hard Times And Struggle

Mother Nature’s Mad

Love Me or Leave Me

Flames Of Love

Solitaire

8 Ball Aitken plays the kind of swamp blues that makes you groove. Tour dates, merch, video, + more on www.8ballaitken.com

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