The mainstream acceptance of blues kids like Kenny Wayne Shepherd and 16-year-old Jonny Lang is both gratifying and frustrating: It's refreshing to hear the often staid genre infused with new blood ...

Just like child actors, teenage musicians often have a hard time making the credibility leap in attracting older audiences. However, singer-guitarist successfully made that jump 15 years ago with his ...

Blues guitarist Jonny Lang first scored a hit in 1997 at 16 years old with the song "Lie To Me." But these days, he doesn't know how to categorize his playing. “I’m not exactly sure what genre of ...

The blues guitar wunderkind Jonny Lang was only 15 when he released his solo album “Lie To Me” in 1997. It landed in the No. 1 slot on Billboard’s New Artist chart and the sales sent it soaring into ...

Jonny Lang was lauded as a 16-year-old blues whiz kid when “Lie to Me” was released in 1997 Now a 34-year-old family man – a father to four children all under age 8 – he’s landed five albums in the ...

At 15, Jonny Lang made a blues album, 1997’s “Lie to Me,” which went platinum and hit No. 1 on Billboard’s New Artist chart. At 17 he made another, “Wander This World,” which earned a Grammy ...

As a country boy, growing up on a farm in North Dakota, Jonny Lang used to riffle through his parents’ record collection and listen to the sounds of Motown, blues and rock, dreaming of one day making ...

Walking up to center stage, twentysomething Jonny Lang looked more like a kid that works in a coffee shop than a monster musician, but a monster he is. From the opening “One Person at a Time” to the ...

FYI: Kid Jonny Lang & The Big Bang released its first CD in when Lang was just 15. He was signed to A&M Records and released "Lie to Me" a year later. Known for: "Turn Around," a 2006 disc that earned ...

At age 13, blues prodigy Jonny Lang had a voice like a swampy blues cat. Fans wondered just whose soul this North Dakota tunesmith had inherited; his guitar solos were burning as much as his vocals ...

Before he could legally drive, my guest in this session had his first platinum record. Jonny Lang was 15 when he released Lie to Me, the explosive album that earned him accolades as part the next ...