Jeff Lang has been called the “Slide Guitar King Of The World.” Not bad for a guy who taught himself to play by listening to his dad’s Rory Buchanan, Skip James and Eric Clapton records in Geelong, Victoria (yes, that’s in Australia). In Lang’s ten-year career, he’s been known for both kickass electric blues and a rootsier amplified acoustic blues that pays homage to the Mississippi Delta without trying to imitate the masters. Also original are his own contemporary folk songs. As
George Graham notes, “Lang plays some great bluesy slide guitar, sometimes on lap steel, but with lyrics containing phrases like ‘deep-instilled scrutinizing diatribes,’ and a compositional style that favors modal lines reminiscent of English and Celtic folk, his music is anything but standard 12-bar blues. The combination of fine writing and exciting blues playing is intriguing, distinctive, and quite substantial musically."
Lang has has toured with the likes of Ani Di Franco, Albert Collins, Loudon Wainwright III, Greg Brown, Dr. John, and Dar Williams. He has performed in venues as diverse as the Dublin Blues Festival, the Philadelphia Folk Festival, the Winterhawk Bluegrass Festival, and the experimental music mecca, The Knitting Factory, in New York City. Don’t miss the Marblehead leg of his U.S. tour!
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First, write some damn fine, rootsy story-songs and confessionals that easily locate the home truth. Smother the rocky ones in greasy, funky, groove-ass, electric slide slop. Color the folky ones with some evocative, deeply soulful acoustic slide. Play ’em as if you’re a male Bonnie Raitt — with some serious balls and flawless chops — but twice as speedy and energetic. Play that thang so it cuts like a pearl-handled straight razor: Fast, clean, shiny and sharp, but always in service of the song. Congratulations! You’re Jeff Lang . . . the new Slide Guitar King Of The World.
HD – Chart Magazine – Canada
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