Jazz Articles about Jonny Lang

Jonny Lang: Signs

by Doug Collette
September 10, 2017

The weathered voice recounting life's travails on the opening track of Signs, “Make It Move," is in marked contrast to the boyish countenance of Jonny Lang as pictured on the cover of the album. The distortion on his electric guitar, however, suits the chain-gang song likes of that number, even as it leads directly into the jump of the following cut, “Snakes;" here the caterwauling voice leading into the fretboard solo carries all the repulsion the title might conjure up. ...