Having grown up in the tough, migrant, working-class northern suburbs of South Australia in the sixties and seventies, King was exposed to the musical tastes of other British migrants - names such as Muddy Waters, Bob Dylan, Howling Wolf, Leadbelly and Robert Johnson.

He later earned a living as a truck driver, storeman, labourer, salesman and teacher and has drawn upon this myriad of experiences as fodder for his songwriting.

Tony J King creates the music of a journeyman with roots in the street-corner blues and folk of yesteryear. With influences ranging from James Elroy, Edgar Allen Poe, Homer, Kerouak and Joseph Conrad, King delivers a slow-burnin mix of low-fi urban myths, halftruths and dark gospel in quirky musical tales honed from a pre-occupation with the unusual, the exotic and the downright bizarre.

http://www.tonyjking.bandcamp....