This year Jeff is very happy to be joining Frank Sultana’s 4th annual Blues Bash. Alongside Jeff will be Eugene “Hideaway” Bridges (USA), Karen Lee Andrews, Fiona Boyes, The Ray Beadle Band, Nadia and Brothers. An afternoon and evening of blues and soul that will blow your mind.
Jeff will be visiting the fabulous festival Blues At Bridgetown, playing in scorching solo mode – featuring sings from the latest studio album ‘More Life’. Jeff plays on November 7. Check it out here
Jeff is delighted to be invited back to Wangaratta Jazz & Blues Festival and will join up with his long time collaborator – drummer Danny McKenna – for a career spanning set. Tickets HERE.
After listening through what was captured of the magic of the More Life tour – Jeff mixed his choice performances and put together a live album from the tour. ‘More Live!’ is the result.
In addition to Danny McKenna’s superlative drumming throughout, Jeff joined by Ben Franz and Michael Vidale on bass (though not at the same time), and William Crighton is playing keys and singing on most tracks too, as well as duetting on the two songs they co-wrote from the More Life album. Suzannah Espie, Kerri Simpson, Hat Fitz and Cara Robinson, Shannon Bourne, Paul Williamson, William Barton, Carl Panuzzo and Ray Pereira all show up to add their musical voices at various places also. Available as a download and CD via the bandcamp page.
Acclaimed Australian guitarist, 3-time ARIA winner, singer-songwriter and producer, Jeff Lang, today releases the first single from his forthcoming album.
Seek High with John Butler is the brand-new song lifted from the forthcoming album, More Life, which will be released on Friday 4th October.
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.
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.
Says Jeff Lang “Seek High is the first single from my new album More Life, a duet with my friend John Butler. John and I wrote this song together a few years back when I was first thinking about putting together what ended up being the More Life album, and we sat on the song until things started coming together for this project before we recorded it. I really enjoyed discovering how our two voices blended in harmony, as well as contrasting when singing on our own sections.
He then went on to say “Instrumentally, Seek High features John playing amplified banjo alongside my electric lap steel, which we recorded together with my lead vocal, live off the floor at Head Gap Studios alongside the hypnotic groove of Danny McKenna on drums. John then added his vocals, a synth bass part and I put on a bass part of my own, using a Danelectro longhorn bass. Having two different types of bass made for some effective shifts in the feel of the track between sections, sometimes moving from the bass guitar to the synth bass or vice-versa, eventually having them both at once when the track started building up steam.”
Not content with merely(!) supplying the perfect balance of moodiness and propulsion in the song’s groove on the drums, Danny McKenna also created the video for this song using a “flipbook” type of computer animation technique.
The album More Life 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.
More life comes as both a CD and a deluxe double gatefold vinyl album with artwork by iconic US cartoonist, Jim Woodring.
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January 19-21
Jeff and his partner in music and life – Alison Ferrier – are delighted to be featured artists at Thredbo Blues Festival 2024.
Playing some of their songs from the High Ace album released in 2022 and other
gems from across their respective solo careers, these will be very special and unique performances.
Tickets on sale now at Threbo Blues Festival.
Fri 24 Feb – Sun 26 Feb 2023
Jeff will join a fantastic line up at this new event in Lennox Heads.
Tickets available HERE
April 20 – 23 2023
Jeff loves visiting Tasmania and this will be his first visit since the pandemic really took hold.
Tickets available HERE
Fri 3 March 2023
Jeff is one of the headline artists on the Friday night of this fantastic little festival in WA
Tickets available HERE
7-9 October 2022
Jeff is a headline performer at the West Australian Guitar Festival – Strings Attached.
This will give Jeff his first opportunity to present his memoir to his WA fans