1. Jeff Lang was born on 9 November 1969 and is an Australian guitarist, songwriter, vocalist and music producer.
18 Facts About Jeff Lang
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Jeff Lang became interested in music at age eight, when he started playing the clarinet.
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Jeff Lang said the band disbandment was a "purely instinctive decision" and one he has never looked back from.
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In 1994, Jeff Lang self-released his debut studio album titled, Ravenswood, which was followed by a live recording titled Disturbed Folk in 1995.
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In 1996, Jeff Lang released Native Dog Creek on Black Market Music.
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In 1998, Jeff Lang released his third studio album titled, Cedar Grove, which was nominated for Best Blues and Roots Album at the ARIA Music Awards of 1999.
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In 1999, Jeff Lang released a limited edition album titled, The Silverbacks with Hat Fitz.
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In 2001, Jeff Lang released Everything Is Still with Angus Diggs.
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In 2002, Jeff Lang join Bob Brozman and collaborated again with Diggs on the album Rolling Through This World.
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In July 2004, Jeff Lang released his seventh studio album Whatever Makes You Happy, his first on ABC Music.
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In 2005, Jeff Lang released You Have to Dig Deep to Bury Daddy on ABC Classics.
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In 2009, Jeff Lang collaborated with Mamadou Diabate and Bobby Singh on the album Djan Djan.
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In 2012, Jeff Lang was presented with the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's National Folk Recording Award.
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Also in 2012, Jeff Lang added vocals to Maru Tarang's album Blue City.
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In May 2014, Jeff Lang released the soundtrack to the TV series The Gods of Wheat Street.
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In 2019, Jeff Lang released Next They Come for You, on LP.
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In 2020, Jeff Lang published his book Some Memories Never Die.
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Jeff Lang primarily plays acoustic guitars, although he has an unorthodox way of amplifying them, running a combination of a built-in microphone and a Sunrise magnetic pick-up together for his clean acoustic sound, while running the output of the Sunrise pick-up through various effects through an electric guitar amplifier allowing him to obtain both acoustic and distorted electric guitar tones from the same guitar.