8 Ball Aitken
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8 Ball Aitken is an Australian country, blues & roots musician who is notable for his fusion of country music
with the genres of Australian blues
and roots music.
8 Ball Aitken has released four albums: Behind The 8 Ball (2004), Odd Ball In (2006), Rebel With A Cause (2008) & The Tamworth Tapes (2011).
8 Ball Aitken's third album 'Rebel With A Cause' was produced by Garth Porter. 'Rebel With A Cause' was released in Australia by Phoenix Movement Records and MGM Distribution (Australia).
The album Rebel With A Cause has produced two top 10 hits, 'Cyclone Country' & 'Hands On Top Of The Wheel' in the Australian Country Tracks Top 30.
8 Ball Aitken has won several awards for songs from his 2008 album 'Rebel With A Cause'. His song 'Cowboy Movie' was nominated for the Australian Blues & Roots Song of the Year at the 2009 APRA Awards
8 Ball Aitken has won two Q Song Awards. His song 'Yellow Moon', from album 'Rebel With A Cause' won the 2008 EMI Q Song Blues & Roots Award. Another song, 'Outback Booty Call' also from album 'Rebel With A Cause', won the 2009 Q Song Country Award.
8 Ball Aitken was also nominated for a Golden Guitar Award in the New Talent category at the 2009 Tamworth Country Music Festival.
8 Ball Aitken achieved Grand Finalist status in Toyota Star Maker at the 2008 & 2009 Tamworth Country Music Festival
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8 Ball Aitken won the 'Rising Star Male Award' at the 2008 Southern Star Awards which are held in Mildura each year (also called the Australian Independent Country Music Awards).
Aitken is also the founder of the Grass Roots Music Festival, funded as a special project by Brisbane's Lord Mayor
Campbell Newman
. The Grass Roots Music Festival has run for four years 2005, 2006, 2007 & 2008 in the Brisbane City Botanical Gardens, Mount Coot-tha.
8 Ball Aitken has toured and performed at festivals and gigs across Australia, Canada, Japan and Europe.
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
with the genres of Australian blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
and roots music.
8 Ball Aitken has released four albums: Behind The 8 Ball (2004), Odd Ball In (2006), Rebel With A Cause (2008) & The Tamworth Tapes (2011).
8 Ball Aitken's third album 'Rebel With A Cause' was produced by Garth Porter. 'Rebel With A Cause' was released in Australia by Phoenix Movement Records and MGM Distribution (Australia).
The album Rebel With A Cause has produced two top 10 hits, 'Cyclone Country' & 'Hands On Top Of The Wheel' in the Australian Country Tracks Top 30.
8 Ball Aitken has won several awards for songs from his 2008 album 'Rebel With A Cause'. His song 'Cowboy Movie' was nominated for the Australian Blues & Roots Song of the Year at the 2009 APRA Awards
8 Ball Aitken has won two Q Song Awards. His song 'Yellow Moon', from album 'Rebel With A Cause' won the 2008 EMI Q Song Blues & Roots Award. Another song, 'Outback Booty Call' also from album 'Rebel With A Cause', won the 2009 Q Song Country Award.
8 Ball Aitken was also nominated for a Golden Guitar Award in the New Talent category at the 2009 Tamworth Country Music Festival.
8 Ball Aitken achieved Grand Finalist status in Toyota Star Maker at the 2008 & 2009 Tamworth Country Music Festival
Tamworth Country Music Festival
The Tamworth Country Music Festival is an annual music festival held in Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia and is a celebration of Australian country music culture and heritage. The festival lasts for two weeks during late January and during this period the city of Tamworth comes alive, with...
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8 Ball Aitken won the 'Rising Star Male Award' at the 2008 Southern Star Awards which are held in Mildura each year (also called the Australian Independent Country Music Awards).
Aitken is also the founder of the Grass Roots Music Festival, funded as a special project by Brisbane's Lord Mayor
Lord Mayor
The Lord Mayor is the title of the Mayor of a major city, with special recognition.-Commonwealth of Nations:* In Australia it is a political position. Australian cities with Lord Mayors: Adelaide, Brisbane, Darwin, Hobart, Melbourne, Newcastle, Parramatta, Perth, Sydney, and Wollongong...
Campbell Newman
Campbell Newman
Campbell Kevin Thomas Newman is the leader of the Liberal National Party of Queensland. He was the 15th Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 2004 to 2011....
. The Grass Roots Music Festival has run for four years 2005, 2006, 2007 & 2008 in the Brisbane City Botanical Gardens, Mount Coot-tha.
8 Ball Aitken has toured and performed at festivals and gigs across Australia, Canada, Japan and Europe.