Jeff Lang

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Active: '90s, 2000s
Genres: Blues
Instrument: Vocals
Representative Albums: "Prepare Me Well", "Cedar Grove", "You Have to Dig Deep to Bury Daddy

Biography

Australian singer/songwriter Jeff Lang became interested in music at age eight, when he started playing the clarinet. As a teen, he switched to guitar and began performing as a blues guitarist at 17, supporting artists like Albert Collins, Rory Gallagher, and Trudy Lynn. His musical vocabulary expanded to include traditional Celtic and folk elements as he began recording his own material in 1990. Along with gigs in local blues bands, Lang formed the Jeff Lang Band as a showcase for his songwriting skills. Though the band broke up in 1993, by the following year he released his debut album, Ravenswood. In in 1995, Disturbed Folk captured Lang in a live setting, and 1996's Native Dog Creek was named Best Australian Blues Album in a Rhythms Magazine readers poll. 1998 saw the release of Cedar Grove, which came out in the U.S. the following year. In 2005 Lang issued You Have to Dig Deep to Bury Daddy, followed the next year by Prepare Me Well. ~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide

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Jeff Lang

Background information
Birth name	Jeffrey Lang
Born	9 November 1969(1969-11-09)
Origin	Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Genres	Folk, Blues, Rock and Roll
Occupations	guitarist/singer/songwriter
Years active	1990 - present

Jeff Lang (born 9 November 1969) is an Australian songwriter, singer and slide guitarist. A leading performer in the Australian roots style, which incorporates primarily folk, blues and rock, his music is heavily influenced by the folk music of the southern United States as well as from the British Isles but has distinctly Australian lyrical content. He plays various types of guitar, both slide and standard, as well as banjo, mandolin, Chumbush and drums. In Addition to other awards Lang's 1996 album Native Dog Creek was named 'Best Australian Blues Album' in a Rhythms Magazine readers poll, as was his 2005 release You Have To Dig Deep To Bury Daddy and his 2002 collaboration with Bob Brozman won an ARIA award for Best Blues and Roots Music album.

1 Discography
2 Equipment
3 References
4 External links

Discography

Chimeradour
Half Seas Over
Prepare Me Well - A Jeff Lang Anthology 1994 - 2006
Dislocation Blues (with Chris Whitley)
You Have to Dig Deep to Bury Daddy
Whatever Makes You Happy
No Point Slowing Down
Live At The Basement DVD
Everything is Still
Disturbed Folk Vol. 2
Cedar Grove
A Crowd in Every Face
Native Dog Creek
Disturbed Folk
Ravenswood
The Silverbacks(with Hat Fitz)
Real Scars
96 Tour Pressie CD
Live at the Vineyard(with Chris Finnen)

Equipment

Churchill Guitars
Beeton Brass Guitars
National Reso-Glass Guitars
DANELECTRO GUITARS
KALAMAZOO GUITARS
OAHU GUITARS
REGAL GUITARS
Squire Teisco Caster
1950's Supro Lap Steel
Valco Reso Phonic
TIM KILL Weissenborn GUITARS
Stomp Box

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External links

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Official web site
Jeff Lang at allmusic.com
Jeff Lang collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive
Jeff Lang's MySpace

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