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8 Ball Aitken has toured the world for more than a decade performing his swamp-soul and blues-rock across twenty countries to date. He’s earned a loyal fanbase from his live shows and internet videos, while paying his dues as a singer, songwriter, slide-guitarist, and producer.
8 Ball moved to Nashville, Tennessee, USA in 2012 and worked for nine years with many of the best in the blues business today. He won second place in the 2021 International New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival.
8 Ball’s previous albums ‘Ice Cream Man’ and ‘Ice Cream Man 2’ both hit #1 on the Australian Blues & Roots Charts and had several #1 AMRAP Australia Radio Chart hits.
8 Ball Aitken is back in 2025 with a new collaborative album project ‘Nightbird’. Sydney soul singer Taya Chani and 8 Ball co-wrote and co-produced the 12-track album together over several years living in different countries and states of Australia during the process of making the album.
The cast of musicians on ‘Nightbird’ include USA saxophone legend Buddy Leach (George Thorogood & The Destroyers), Sydney drummer Declan Kelly, and 8 Ball’s younger brother Dillion James Aitken on Hammond organ and piano.
8 Ball moved to Nashville, Tennessee, USA in 2012 and worked for nine years with many of the best in the blues business today. He won second place in the 2021 International New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival.
8 Ball’s previous albums ‘Ice Cream Man’ and ‘Ice Cream Man 2’ both hit #1 on the Australian Blues & Roots Charts and had several #1 AMRAP Australia Radio Chart hits.
8 Ball Aitken is back in 2025 with a new collaborative album project ‘Nightbird’. Sydney soul singer Taya Chani and 8 Ball co-wrote and co-produced the 12-track album together over several years living in different countries and states of Australia during the process of making the album.
The cast of musicians on ‘Nightbird’ include USA saxophone legend Buddy Leach (George Thorogood & The Destroyers), Sydney drummer Declan Kelly, and 8 Ball’s younger brother Dillion James Aitken on Hammond organ and piano.
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