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Even though 8 Ball Aitken is just now releasing his first album in the states, the eight albums (and myriad videos) in his award-winning Australian catalog offer further proof that you don t have to be American to deliver authentic Americana music. As his growing legions of non-Aussie fans also confirm, his bluesified, swampified, countrified southern rock feels right at home on stages in Texas (his newly adopted home), or Nashville, Ontario or Amsterdam. His self-titled new album perfectly conveys his propensity for making music with a lot of attitude and fun. With song titles such as Seven Bucks an Hour in a Chicken Suit, Witness Protection, Outback Booty Call, and the single, She s Going To Mexico, I m Going To Jail, it s filled with what he characterizes as party music for the real hillbillies. If the girls don t dance, it ain t rock n roll, Aitken insists. Doing his best to make sure his audiences get on their feet, this accomplished slide player and frequent one-man band even pulls out a variety of homemade junk guitars crafted from recycled parts. The Nivea wrinkle cream can guitar is a chick magnet, he claims. It makes you look 20 years younger. But the former fruit-picker isn t joking when he says, One of my happiest achievements is having over a thousand people say to me, That s the most fun I ve ever had at a gig. To make people happy comes above everything else.