COUNTRY music fans are in for a treat with 8 Ball Aitken back in Bundaberg to launch his new album.

The flame-haired musician will be at the Club Hotel tomorrow night to launch his eighth album The New Normal.

"Choosing to launch this album in Bundaberg for its official release date is important to me, because my Bundaberg fans are over-the-top fun," Aitken said.

Aitken has forged a career in the Australian country music scene by creating his own unique country blues style and now Aitken said he was taking that to a new level.

"It features 12 new original songs that I believe are my best work yet," he said.

"Some of these songs will have you hanging off the edge of a building, figuring out what'll happen next."

Recorded in Nashville, with a hot session band featuring musicians who have played with Lynyrd Skynyrd, George Thorogood, Emmylou Harris and Taylor Swift, Aitken said he has grown as a musician.

"For example Love You And Stay, Sleepy and Girl In A Million would probably not have fit well on past albums that I recorded in Australia," he said.

"But my approach after living in America is more global, and I have a deeper feel for more emotional songs in my music at this time.

"The New Normal has a lot more maturity than my previous work, because I have done a lot of hard yards on the road and spent a lot of time in the studio too."