PODCAST: 8 Ball Aitken + Taya Chani will be featured artist on Ross M Fear’s Alive 90.5 fm Australian Spectrum Show (Episode #849) featuring their new album “Nightbird” and his 15 previous albums of swamp & country blues. If you missed the show, you can hear a podcast of the show again online at https://omny.fm/shows/australian-spectrum-show/australian-spectrum-show-24-6-2025
Two heavyweights of the Australian blues-rock-soul scene 8 Ball Aitken & Taya Chani have
teamed up with a new album project ‘Nightbird’.
The first single and title-track ‘Nightbird’ immediately hit #1 on the Australian AMRAP Regional
Charts in March 2025 for two weeks in a row as did their second single ‘Miss You The Most’ in
May. Their signature harmonies and groovy guitars have proved to be a winning combination.
8 Ball Aitken & Taya Chani are embarking on their second national Australian Tour in over the
Autumn and Winter months of 2025.
8 Ball Aitken has toured the world for more than a decade performing across twenty countries
to date. 8 Ball moved to Nashville, Tennessee, USA in 2012 and worked for nine years with
many of the best in the blues and roots business today. He won second place in the 2021
International New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival.
Sydney based soul singer Taya Chani released her debut album 'Restless Heart' widespread
airplay and rave reviews in 2019. In 2023, the duo released their first collaboration, ‘Only
Guiding Light’ from album ‘Ice Cream Man 2’ that both hit #1 on the Australian Blues & Roots
Charts. The cast of musicians on the new ‘Nightbird’ album include USA saxophone legend Buddy
Leach (George Thorogood & The Destroyers), drummer extraordinaire Declan Kelly, and 8
Ball’s younger brother Dillion James Aitken on keys. Check out the tour dates on
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