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Half Seas Over

Jeff Lang

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Cat No: FURRY002

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Release Date:  08 June 2009

Label:  Furry Records

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  805520212885

Genres:  Blues  

  • Description

    Half Seas Over by acclaimed Australian guitarist, singer and songwriter Jeff Lang is an album resonant with story and song. With his eloquent guitar, sweet voice and plainspoken yet sensitive approach to the original and traditional source material, Jeff Lang is expanding the boundaries of traditional folk, country and blues to create a new brand of nontraditional music which is undeniably and deeply steeped in tradition, yet with its imagination set on future horizons.
    Arranged with the utmost simplicity, the duo format of Lang’s superb guitar accompanied by Grant Cummerford’s deft bass playing allows the stories of Half Seas Over to be delivered in their utmost power. As the quiet intensity of their playing builds, driven by the relentless pace of each story, the duo paint indelible pictures – a copper miner closing his eyes to dream of flight, a murderer watching the wind ruffle the water that will be his lover’s grave.
    Inspired by a diverse set of influences, from John Fahey and Richard Thompson to Chris Whitley and Devendra Banhart, from Dock Boggs and Skip James to Dylan and AC/DC, Jeff Lang has created a contemporary classic.

    Tracks: Southern Highlands Daughter / Copper Mine / Savannah Way / Five Setters / House Carpenter / My Mother Always Talked to Me / Vaults of Lattanzio [Instrumental] / Mooncoin / Ghosting on My Mind / Night Draws In / Is All / Newman Town

    May Dates
    21 BOURNEMOUTH Centrestage / 22 CHICHESTER The Richmond Arms / 23 ISLE OF MAN Peel Centenary Centre / 24 EXETER The Bridge Inn / 25 LEICESTER The Musician /
    27 LONDON Green Note / 28 MENAI BRIDGEThe Victoria Hotel / 29 JERSEY The Watersplash

    Also available: FURRY001 'Whatever Makes You Happy'

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Southern Highlands Daughter
      • 2. Copper Mine
      • 3. The Savannah Way
      • 4. Five Setters
      • 5. The House Carpenter
      • 6. My Mother Always Talked to Me
      • 7. The Vaults of Lattanzio
      • 8. Mooncoin
      • 9. Ghosting On My Mind
      • 10. Night Draws In
      • 11. Is All
      • 12. Newman Town