Jonny Lang

Jonny Lang (born Jon Gordon Langseth, Jr., January 29, 1981 in Fargo, North Dakota) is a Grammy Award-winning American blues and gospel singer.

Biography

Lang started playing the guitar at the age of twelve, after his father took him to see the Bad Medicine Blues Band, one of the few blues bands in Fargo. Lang soon started taking guitar lessons from Ted Larsen, the Bad Medicine Blues Band's guitar player. Several months after Lang started guitar lessons, he joined the Bad Medicine Blues Band, which was then renamed Kid Jonny Lang & The Big Bang.

The band moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota and independently released the album Smokin. Lang was signed to A&M Records in 1996. He released the critically acclaimed multi-platinum Lie to Me on January 28, 1997. The next album, Wander This World, was released on October 20, 1998 and earned a Grammy nomination. This was followed by the more soulful Long Time Coming on October 14, 2003. Lang also made a cover of Edgar Winter's "Dying to Live." Lang's newest album, the gospel-influenced Turn Around, was released in 2006, and most recently won Lang his first Grammy Award.

In more than ten years on the road, Lang has toured with the Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, B.B. King, Blues Traveler, Jeff Beck, and Sting. In 1999, he was invited to play for a White House audience including President and Mrs. Clinton. Lang also makes a cameo appearance in the film Blues Brothers 2000 as a janitor. In 2004 Eric Clapton asked Lang to play at the Crossroads Guitar Festival to raise money for the Crossroads Centre Antigua.

Discography

• 1995 Smokin (as Kid Jonny Lang & The Big Bang)
• 1997 Lie to Me
• 1998 Wander This World
• 2003 Long Time Coming
• 2006 Turn Around

Guest appearances

• 1997 A Very Special Christmas 3, performs on track "Santa Claus is Back in Town."
• 1998 Blues Brothers 2000 original soundtrack, performs on track "634-5789 (Soulsville, U.S.A.)."
• 1998 Heavy Love album by Buddy Guy, performs on track "Midnight Train."
• 1999 Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions album by Shannon Curfman performs on multiple tracks, and co-wrote "Love Me Like That."
• 2000 It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues original cast recording, performs on tracks "Someone Else is Steppin' In" and "The Thrill is Gone."
• 2000 This Time Around album by Hanson, performs on "You Never Know", "Runaway Run" and "Hand in Hand"
• 2001 Been a Long Time album by Double Trouble, performs on "Ground Hog Day" along with Gordie Johnson of Big Sugar.
• 2005 Possibilities album by Herbie Hancock, Lang sings and plays guitar on the track "When Love Comes to Town".
• 2007 A Deeper Level album by Israel Houghton, Lang plays and sings duet with Israel on the track "You Are Not Forgotten".

Jonny Lang - Smokin'

Macam tidak percaya ja.. masa album ni keluar, si Jonny Lang baru saja berusia 13 tahun.. vocal dan permainan gitar beliau dah maju masa tu..cuma.. beliau tidak menulis lagu-lagu dalam album ni.. lihatlah foto tu, ahli band dia macam da seumur dengan bapa dia kali..

saya jumpa album ni di kedai kaset centre Point, KK..(tapi dengn cover lain) da lama cari album beliau yang berjudul "lie to me" ( dapat tahu dari majalah R.O.T.T.W) tapi album ni pula yang saya jumpa.. (setelah berlegar2 dan mengunjungi setiap kedai kaset di Kota kinabalu!)

Dengarkan track "louise" dan "i Love you the best".. lagu-lagu dan skill beliau memberi nafas baru kepada gitaris - gitaris muda. khususnya gitaris blues... I wonder if i have to compare him with John Mayer.. Hmm.. tak patut.. tone beliau lebih "berlemak".. maklumlah beliau menggunakan gitar telecaster..

album-album beliau yang lain juga hebat-hebat.. nanti akan di ulas era peralihan beliau ke kelompok Gospel music.. stay tune..