21st September 2011: Jeff Lang / Playlist

Featured: Jeff Lang - Carried In Mind (ABC Roots) 

This website is probably not capable of powering the gigga-whatevers needed to hold the amount of information required to explain Jeff Lang’s career. Let’s just say that ‘Carried In Mind’ is his fifteenth studio album and that is not even including the many other projects his has been involved in, the guy is a historical, musical landmark in the Australian scene.

So by the time an artist reaches album number fifteen you would expect a reviewer to find few things wrong with said record. You would be right, ‘Carried In Mind’ is full of brilliant musicianship, mature song writing, and some of the smoothest blues riffs Lang has ever produced, and is above all, hard to fault. The two main points of interest on this record are the guitar lines, which are simply brilliant, and the vocal melodies, which wrestle each other for the spotlight constantly.

Whether you have been following Lang’s career or are a newcomer ‘Carried In Mind’ will do more than satisfy as it speaks with its own voice. Whilst there is a range of styles explored, which creates great diversity, the underlying blues tone that Lang is more than present. Here’s to the sixteenth and onwards.

Jeff Lang

Radio Playlist 21st September 2011 (here)

Ben Salter - The Cat (The Cat)
Mondo Drag - Black River (New Rituals)
Jeff Lang - Towards Love (Carried In Mind)
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The Moffs - Tomorrow Never Knows (The Collection)
Hotplate - Going To Bill's (Elephas)
Six Organs Of Admittance - Bar Nasha (Luminous Night)
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Jeff Lang - Running By The Rock (Carried In Mind)
Jeff Lang - You Never Know Who's Listening (Carried In Mind)
Jeff Lang - Jack-A-Row (Carried In Mind)
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Dean McPhee - Sky Burial (Brown Bear EP)
Sky Picnic - Moons Of Jupiter (v/a Sound Explosions)
Elder - III (Dead Roots Stirring)
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Sienna Root - Waiting For The Sun (v/a Electric Magic Vol.3)


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