King For A Day (Vinyl)

Cheersquad's 2021 reissue of Wilson's classic Live at the Continental album debuted at #19 on the ARIA album chart and came in at #20 on the Year End ARIA Blues & Roots chart. Ahead of the reissue, in December 2020, Wilson was induced to the Music Victoria Hall of Fame by his old friend Paul Kelly.

Arriving in 2002 off the back of the 2000's Rhythms Magazine "Best Blues Album" Award-winning Spiderman album, King For A Day was the first fully original Chris Wilson since the ARIA-nominated classic Long Weekend in 1998. The eagerly awaited album was the first release on Wilson's newly established Forge label (named after his two boys Fenn and George) and again featured long-time guitarist Shannon Bourne & drummer Dave Folley, along with Chris Rogers on bass, Kerryn Tollhurst, Cindy Boste, Sarah Carroll and Skip Sail.

Chris Wilson was a giant of Australian blues and roots music. A big man with a big voice and an even bigger heart, he followed in the footsteps of early pioneers like Dutch Tilders, Matt Taylor and Broderick Smith (and led the way for the likes of Jeff Lang, Ash Grunwald and the Teskey Brothers) and took his feeling for blues into the rock and punk worlds, eventually becoming the heart and soul of Melbourne’s legendary thriving live scene.