C.W. Stoneking/The Torments

Southern American music has always figured heavily into singer-songwriter C.W. Stoneking’s music, a blend of American roots, blues, and New Orleans Jazz with elements of early rock ’n’ roll, country and calypso. Following an Australian tour together last year, Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme teamed up with Stoneking for a Christmas Charity duet of “Silent Night” and interviewed him on Episode #36 of his Beats 1show The Alligator Hour. Jack White also featured Stoneking on his 2018 album Boarding House Reach. Stoneking continues to tour in support of his 2014 LP Gon’ Boogaloo, an album of primitive blues tunes that sounds as if it were recorded in another era. (Niesel)