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Cedar Grove | 
 enlarge | Artist: Jeff Lang
Label: Wind River
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 153190
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 045507400922
EAN: 0045507400922
ASIN: B00000JNP7
Release Date: August 17, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | Prepare Me Well | | • | Is She Slipping | | • | Too Easy to Kill | | • | Cedar Grove | | • | Bateman's Bay | | • | Broken One More Time | | • | Always Moving | | • | Cutthroat | | • | We Don't Ask | | • | Throw It All | | • | Call Letter Blues - Jeff Lang, Dylan, Bob |
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Album Details
Jeff Lang Further Stakes his Claim as One of the Premier Singer/Songwriters in Australia with his Latest Release 'cedar Grove'. On this Album, Jeff's Skills have Come to Fore. His Ability on Guitar Has Been Legend Since his Dramatic Entry Into the Blues Scene Ten Years Ago. This Album Begins with Jeff's Blues Influences and Incorporating his Individual Observations on Life in Australia, Ends Up an Album of Great Passion and Virtuosity.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Phenominal January 10, 2005
Greg G. Blair (New Jersey)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
First heard Jeff Lang on Prarie Home Companion and was enchanted with his impressive (but not bombastic) and confident slide guitar work and probing lyrics. Lang has a wonderful a blues/folk/rock hybrid sound that in a more just world would guarantee radio play time. The songs have a great grove, but without the crunch of heavier rock purveyors. This is a great find.
Please do not confuse with Johnny Lang who has a clumsy, tasteless and self concious approach to blues.
Jeff's great journey January 7, 2005
P. J. Roffe (Victoria, Australia)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Jeff is going to produce some brilliant music over his journey and he's got a monster talent to take with him. Having heard Jeff play live on eight occasions in Australia I can testify that his star is in the ascendancy and his voice is growing in strength and character. You'll hear it on later releases. The common feature of Jeff's playing at the great East Coast Blues Festival in Byron Bay is that when he starts up the wings of the stage fill with musicians from all over the world who obviously hear something very special. As for the reviewer whose comment that this is what passes for blues in Australia, I did cringe and get angry. It's gotta be good ol' home-grown USA rehashes of Son House, does it? Heard of Dave Hole, Jeff Achison, Chris Finnen, Pete Cornelius, Phil Manning? Nup, didn't think so. Besides, am I losing the faculty of sight because I haven't seen a THIS IS A BLUES RECORD sign stamped on any of Jeff's records. What made you this it was going to be total blues rather than a fusion? Commentary based upon bigotry and profound ignorance is pitiable. As we say here, pull your head in. Jeff's going to shake your world up.
Lang is fresh November 3, 2003
Richard (California)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Jeff Lang gives a fresh and personal voice to the blues. Another reviewer complains that he isn't Son House or Robert Johnson and so forth. Yeah, this is what... 60 years later? A blues fan for many years, I get tired of guys that can't look beyond their dusty old records and nostalgia for an era that they didn't live in and perhaps didn't quite exist. Son House is fine, but he had limited musical talent. Jeff is not only technically talented, he brings a fresh personal message into a style that has too long suffered from a lack of innovation.
Do NOT pass this by!!! September 5, 2003
Michael Macy (West Palm Beach, FL.)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Anyone who does not find this outrageously outstanding has got their head in the sand or is deaf. I've seen Jeff live and listened repeatedly to all his cd's. He's a virtuoso, he's exttreamly talented, He is cutting edge> I should know. I'm a mobile DJ specializing in blues with over 3000 blues cd's. Miike Macy.
 Look to other artist for real Blues July 16, 2003
0 out of 18 found this review helpful
Sadly this is the type of stuff that passes as blues in Australia. Slick and over produced pop music pretending to be blues.Having been a blues fan for years now I am very frustrated with albums like this, you are always left felling let down. One does not find a direct and honest form of expression, as one finds with the music of say Lightnin' Hopkins, Son House and other blues greats, but rather music that is set to show-off a person and heavily padded to give that "full sound". Having seen Mr Lang live I can only say there are far better Blues singers and players out there. I would suggest that you look at the many great bluesman Amazon has to offer like, Muddy Waters, Robert Pete Williams, Fred Mcdowell eta. and see what I mean.
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