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More vintage than vintage !
The first track opens with crows cawing in the distance. Suddenly, on the front porch, an old man starts to play an antic acoustic guitar and sings a country blues with a hoarse scratching voice. But the album cover shows a rather young man holding a National Steel guitar on his lap and wearing a back hat and a black suit, with a black bow tie around a snow white shirt's neck like he's just back from the Sunday office at the local church in the 1920s or 30s'.
Is it the re-issue of an old 78-rpm recorded a long time ago by an obscure country blues musician ? No, this reincarnation of a pre-war Deep South bluesman is Mr. C.W. Stoneking, a young Australian of 31 at the time, who amazingly sounds as vintage as most of the early 20th century musicians who influenced him.
