Jeff Lang

At eight years old, Australian singer/songwriter Jeff Lang took up the clarinet and discovered his first connection to music. During adolescence he moved to guitar, making his initial appearances as a blues guitarist at seventeen while supporting acts that included Albert Collins, Rory Gallagher, and Trudy Lynn. Once he began committing his own songs to tape in 1990, his approach broadened to embrace traditional Celtic and folk influences. In tandem with performances alongside local blues groups, he assembled the Jeff Lang Band specifically to feature his original material. Although the ensemble disbanded in 1993, Ravenswood, his debut album, appeared the next year. Disturbed Folk, issued in 1995, presented Lang in concert, and readers of Rhythms Magazine later voted 1996’s Native Dog Creek the Best Australian Blues Album. Cedar Grove followed in 1998 and reached the United States the year after that. You Have to Dig Deep to Bury Daddy surfaced in 2005, with Prepare Me Well arriving twelve months later.