Jeff Lang
I Live In My Head A Lot These Days
ABC Music / Universal
Jeff Lang’s latest
record in a still flourishing career that’s spanned almost thirty years begins
a capella, a few bars before that instantly recognisable slide guitar comes in,
‘Watch Me Go’, not so much a song as a story set to music.
This is the MO for
most of I Live In My Head A Lot These
Days – it’s certainly not Lang’s loudest or fastest record to date; one
gets the impression, despite his guitar prowess, that this one is mainly about
the songs, the stories, the tales he weaves about promise, fear, sadness and
life. Indeed, he has a knack for making seemingly mundane observations appear
mystical, ethereal.
Still set very
much in the rootsy vein for which he’s known, and backed once more by crack
rhythm section Grant Cummerford and Danny McKenna (with Greg Sheehan on board
on percussion), this set stretches out gently but forcefully, a slow burner
that affirms Lang’s place as not only a stellar player, but as one of
Australia’s finest songwriters.
3.5/5
Samuel J. Fell
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