JONNY LANG - LIVE AT MONTREUX - 1999 In 1999, Jonny Lang was indeed 18 years old when he made his debut appearance at the Montreux Festival. He had already released three albums: A self release titled ...
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The mainstream acceptance of blues kids like Kenny Wayne Shepherd and 16-year-old Jonny Lang is both gratifying and frustrating: It's refreshing to hear the often staid genre infused with new blood ...
Just like child actors, teenage musicians often have a hard time making the credibility leap in attracting older audiences. However, singer-guitarist successfully made that jump 15 years ago with his ...
Blues guitarist Jonny Lang first scored a hit in 1997 at 16 years old with the song "Lie To Me." But these days, he doesn't know how to categorize his playing. “I’m not exactly sure what genre of ...
As a country boy, growing up on a farm in North Dakota, Jonny Lang used to riffle through his parents’ record collection and listen to the sounds of Motown, blues and rock, dreaming of one day making ...
At 15, Jonny Lang made a blues album, 1997’s “Lie to Me,” which went platinum and hit No. 1 on Billboard’s New Artist chart. At 17 he made another, “Wander This World,” which earned a Grammy ...
Anyone who’s witnessed Jonny Lang in concert already knows of the febrile passion he summons on stage. Often looking as if he’s locked in his own zone, galvanized by an electric guitar, the once-child ...
North Dakota is no one's idea of a blues incubator. Neither is Minnesota, for that matter. But when it comes to making art, you just never can tell where and when proverbial lightning will strike. For ...