On 8 June 2005 ABC Digital Radio broadcast a cover version of Willie Dixon's "Spoonful" by Machine Translations with C. W. Stoneking as the first part of "The DiG Australian Blues Project". The program described their interpretation as "fantastically twisted" including a "brilliantly 'outside' guitar solo near the end". Walker recalled that at 16 or 17 he was "listening to a lot of old blues, more country style blues ... [it] really affected me, just the rawness of it and the sincerity of it". Walker produced Stoneking's albums "King Hokum" (2005) and "Jungle Blues" (October 2008). The latter provided Stoneking with an ARIA Award in 2009 for Best Roots and Blues Album and four other nominations.