Jeff Lang Album Launch
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Don't miss out on this show, one night only in his central Victorian show on his National Tour to launch his new ABC album.
Australian guitarist-songwriter-vocalist-producer, Jeff Lang has built a reputation for making startling music that is accomplished Introducing, JEFF LANG – MORE LIFE. Acclaimed Australian guitarist, 3-time ARIA winner, singer-songwriter and producer, Jeff Lang, is hitting the road through September, October and November to introduce his forthcoming album to his fans and friends all around Australia.
The Australian roots visionary has held an extraordinary career spanning three decades, over 32 albums, three ARIA Awards, a book (now in its second printing) and inclusion in the National Film and Sound Archives. His recordings and live performances have moved audiences across the globe from Japan to Geelong. New Delhi to Newcastle. His work, while based in the “roots” genre transcends and defies categorisation as evidenced in the diversity of the upcoming album, More Life.
Out now is the single Seek High - with John Butler - lifted from this extraordinary album of collaborations, which will be released on Friday 13th September on ABC Music.
More Life is the culmination of a few years of work, beginning with the concept of an album of songs co-written by Lang and some of his favourite artists.
The album features songs Jeff Lang co-wrote and performed with: John Butler, Liz Stringer, Don Walker, Fred Leone, Kerri Simpson, William Crighton, Suzannah Espie, Hat Fitz & Cara and Asin Khan Langa, and also includes guest appearances from Bassekou Kouyate and Debashish Bhattacharya.
Jeff will perform at this intimate show with very special guest Suzannah Espie. Don’t miss this chance to hear this incredible selection of songs for the first time!
Buy/Stream the Single and pre-order the album HERE
Check out video for Seek High HERE
“Jeff Lang is, in my humble opinion, a national treasure, a truly gifted songwriter and an outstanding guitarist. He has been inspiration to countless Australian and internationally renowned roots artists and surely has a place in history as one of this generation’s finest.He has really touched me and musically, I had a kind of revelation…”
– John Butler, John Butler Trio
“Australian guitarist Jeff Lang weaves remarkably skilled blues guitar around his songs, effortlessly playing complicated parts but never at the expense of the songs themselves.” –The Onion
“Lang’s only reference point is himself, a unique singer-songwriter-guitarist who follows his own path” –
- Le Soleil, Quebec
Suzannah Espie is a Melbourne-based singer songwriter. She began performing with her alt-country pop band, GIT, in 1997. With a voice marrying country, soul, blues and pop, she has performed on albums by artists ranging from Mick Thomas, Jeff Lang and Matt Walker to Liz Stringer and Barb Waters. She also performs with Sarah Carroll in country outfits the Cartridge Family and the Junes, and she has released three solo albums: A Few More Days (2005), First and Last Hotel (2009) and most recently, Sea Of Lights (2012).
Sea Of Lights found its way into many best-of lists in 2012 — as did the album tour she undertook with Altmann and Stringer — from the Age EG and Rhythms magazine, to even scoring the prestigious Nani award from 3RRR’s Banana Lounge broadcasters (Dave Graney and Elizabeth McCarthy). Espie earned one of the biggest accolades of her career when the Port Fairy Folk Festival named her the 2013 Port Fairy Maton Artist of the Year – joining an honour roll including luminaries such as John Butler, Archie Roach, the Waifs and Mick Thomas. She was also named MBAS Blues Performer of the Year in 2008.
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