Launching
8 Ball Aitken's 'HILLBILLY DISCO'
8 Ball Aitken has been
touring for the last 5 weeks in Florida and Texas. This month he plays in
Tennessee, and also on the Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia.
Parties
out in the sticks have a way of snow-balling. At first, it’s just a close circle
of friends, and then somebody invites all their cousins, and the good ol’ boys
down the road turn up with a truck full of cold beer, and somebody texts the
local rockabilly girls. Next thing you know, there’s generators humming, a
circle of pick-up trucks (that’s ‘utes’ for the Aussies) are spotlighting the
makeshift dance floor, and the farmer’s hay-barn has been turned into a full-on
sound and light spectacular, right down to the mirror-ball. The cows don’t know
WHAT to think (not that they ever think much). There is a technical term for
this uniquely rural phenomenon – it’s a ‘Hillbilly Disco’.
Nashville’s 8
Ball Aitken (a fine Australian export of skillfully-brewed country, blues, &
roots) has captured the moment such parties take off in a song, and new video,
of the same name. Filmed at a live and local honkin’ stompin’, backwoods
free-for-all, ‘Hillbilly Disco’ captures the excitement of a bunch of country
characters spontaneously hell-bent on having a good time. They might not be
anywhere near a big-city cocktail bar, but they sure do know how to whoop it up,
outback-style.
8 Ball’s new album release, ‘Southern Hemisphere’, was
recorded in Nashville (USA) and Queensland (Australia), featuring a team of top
musicians, including members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Little Big Town, and members of
Emmylou Harris’, and Robert Plant’s bands – as well as a duet with Australian
country music legend Troy Cassar-Daly. The album’s first single, ‘I’m Going To
Jail’, held the #1 spot for 3 weeks in Australia’s national country music chart,
and all eyes and ears are on ‘Hillbilly Disco’, in anticipation of similar (or
better) success.
The video for ‘Hillbilly Disco’ is being released to 8
Ball Aitken’s most loyal fans before distribution to the general public and mass
media. “This is just one special way I like to thank my fans, who support and
promote me so much throughout the year,” he comments. “I make music just for
them!”
OUR UPCOMING VIDEO EXTRAVAGANZA...
Fully fan-funded, coming
soon to a screen near you is our cartoon video for 'Destroying the World' -- the
next release from Southern Hemisphere. Good things are always worth waiting for!
Featuring the animated cartoon characters created for some of our favourite fans
(including Angie Maxwell, Shayne Soall, and Harley Panagopoulos), the video clip
takes you on a wild trip through a science fiction adventure saga (including a
return performance by everybody's favourite outer-space crocodile) all the way
from Tokyo to the back 40 of a Far North Queensland farm.
We are starting
preparations for our next cartoon. If you'd like to be an 8 Ball Aitken music
video cartoon character, please contact us.
NEW
OUTBACK BOOTY CALL T-SHIRTS AVAILABLE
(S, M, L, XL, 2XL)
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