About

“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

Melbourne based guitarist-songwriter-vocalist-producer, Jeff Lang has built a reputation for making startling music that is accomplished, intricate, gutsy, melodic and loaded with soul. Often taking unexpected turns, he has consistently inspired his audiences by creating a stylistically diverse catalogue over 32 albums.

As many journalists have written over the years, Jeff is not one to be easily pegged, though in a general sense it’s fair to say he largely trades in roots-oriented rock; wider reaching in collaborations with the likes of roving guitar anthropologist Bob Brozman, American blues-rocker Chris Whitley, India’s desert-dwellers Maru Tarang and world music virtuosos Bobby Singh and Mamadou Diabate. Jeff’s work with the latter won the 2010 ARIA for Best World Music Album, while he and Brozman took one home for Best Blues and Roots Music Album in 2002. Jeff received his third ARIA in 2012 for the album ‘Carried In Mind’.

In 2021 Jeff published his first book – “Some Memories Never Die” – a memoir of three decades on the road; Memories of gigs where the pay was akin to blood money, reflections on how the road’s twists and turns can be lightened by the presence of fellow travellers and occasionally darkened by them too.

Never one to stand still –  in the face of some of the longest lockdowns in the world – Jeff devised a new project at home with his partner Alison Ferrier. That project, High Ace, released their debut album in 2022 and Jeff also released an album of instrumental 12 string guitar music in May 2023.Jeff’s 2024 release – More Life – is a deluxe double album featuring co-writing and performing collaborations with John Butler, Don Walker, Liz Stringer, William Crighton, Suzannah Espie, Fred Leone, Hat Fitz & Cara, Asin Khan Langa & includes guest appearances from Bassekou Kouyate and Debashish Bhattacharya.

“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