Music CD - Jonny Lang: Long Time Coming

	Music CD: Long Time Coming Artist: Jonny Lang List Price: $13.98 Our Price: $7.46 Your Save: $ 6.52 ( 47% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: A&M
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Tracks: 1. Give Me Up Again 2. Red Light 3. Get What You Give 4. The One I Got 5. Touch 6. Beautiful One 7. If We Try 8. Goodbye Letter 9. Save Yourself 10. To Love Again 11. Happiness and Misery 12. Hide Your Love 13. Long Time Coming 14. Livin' for the City (Bonus Track)
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0602498608012 Label: A&M Manufacturer: A&M Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: A&M Release Date: 2003-10-14 Studio: A&M
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Still a true talent! Open your minds. Comment: Some of these "fans" and reviews baffle me... I guess some people expect an artist to never change anything up, or have the artistic integrity to express their real life through their music? Or to get older, and evolve a little? Jonny Lang is still the amazing blues talent he always has been. I just went to one of his shows, and trust me, he STILL plays the blues. Like crazy! But he also plays some funky, gospel-ish, rock. It is NOT AT ALL overtly religious. It is NOT "Christian Rock". But much of it IS optimistic and postive, in a "Stevie Wonder" kind of way. And much of it does explore something spiritual. (*gasp! oh no! not that!*) ...I guess some people would rather he had continued along his path of drug-abuse and pain, and had instead ended up dying a young genius in his genre. That would be better. At least then "the evangelicals wouldn't have gotten their claws into him." Yeah. Because the world is much better with out Kurt Cobain and Jim Morrison, right? Phew! At LEAST they didn't turn into Christians... Well not me. I want many more years of whatever this this kid can bring. Customer Rating: Summary: Thank you, once again, institutional "Christianity" Comment: Once again, institutional Christianity, by which I mean mainstream evangelicals, have taken something incredible and turned it into something pathetic and mediocre. So Johnny had a mystical experience of Jesus. Great, nothing wrong with that. I don't doubt that it was very real and meaningful to him. He's casting about for what to do next, and gets hooked up with a Christian church of some kind. Ok, still makes sense to a certain extent. As he gets acclimated into the evangelical culture, he starts getting the mistaken idea that there is something "wrong" with his old music ie paint-peeling gut bucket blues. He starts thinking that he "should" be preaching his new found gospel in some way shape or form. That he isn't "using his talents" for "the Lord" if he's ripping out malicious searing 24 bar solos. Next thing you know we get an album like this, and one of the most gifted kids to come down the pike is flushing his talents in the name of religion. I personally don't want to follow any deity who's not big enough to enjoy a good electric blues song. I personally think that only God himself could inspire and inhabit a music as powerful as the blues. Look, if God gave Johnny the innate talent to be a scary good *blues* guitar player, isn't it misguided for him to move away from that? Look at Stevie Ray Vaughn's last album. Very spiritual, very rockin, very bluesy. Customer Rating: Summary: first one and still his best Comment: I bought this cd first out of Jonny Lang's collection. It is the most consistant complete album as far as that goes. Lie to me, and wander this world have his best songs on them but they also have some fillers. This one I can listen to without skipping any songs. Customer Rating: Summary: Jonny joins Ian Moore as another blues dropout! Comment: The same thing happened with Jonny Lang that happened with Ian Moore....incredibly talented guitar players that put out a couple of blistering blues CDs, then did a 180 and completely abanddoned their roots. Jonny and Ian are wasting their talents with this pop pablum they are putting out claiming that this is really "their" style. Well, that may be true, but now they sound like a million other artists. Their original blues-styling and guitar playing abilities and their live performances are all part of what made them unique. I saw Jonny and Ian live during their "blues days" and they blew everyone away with their blistering guitars and passionate vocals. Now, either one could be mistaken for John Mayer...another phenomenon. Mayer plays steaming blues guitar and exhibits some impressive chops on the Trio album and other live performances, but all his other albums sound like elevator music and the vocals of a man who has been castrated. All the great blues guitarists seem to have dropped out. Why????? Customer Rating: Summary: Jonny Lang - Changes Directions With Mostly Good Results Comment: After Lang hit platinum success with his two previous releases a long period of 5 years elapsed before this one came out in 2003. It is rumored that Lang succumbed to the many of the vices that became available to him after stardom at such a young age. By 2003 Lang had pulled himself together, got married, got religion and come back to producing music. "Long Time Coming" is a much more polished album than his earlier works. He moves away from pure blues towards more mainstream rock and even arena rock at times. There is also a lot of soul and funk here as well. Lang pens the majority of the tracks on the album and his Christian leanings show up often in the lyrics. Highlights include "Red Light", "Beautiful One", "Dying To Live", and the title track "Long Time Coming". The album also features a very nice live cover of Stevie Wonder's "Living For The City". Fans of Lang's older pure blues style may be disappointed in this disc. It is most certainly a different direction for him and if you are looking for extended guitar solos they are few and far between on this one. Still, I like the album for the most part. It is far from Lang's best, but worth checking out. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: "Yeah, it's been a long time coming, never thought it'd take so long," moans Jonny Lang on the seemingly autobiographical title track to his first release in five years. But its stark acoustic, near demo quality is in contrast to the preceding 12 songs, which are buffed to an arena-rock sheen. The youngster has shifted from an up-and-coming bluesman into a tough, journeyman melodic rocker with a dab of R&B. He has also honed his songwriting skills, resulting in the majority of this album (except a rugged bonus live cover of Stevie Wonder's "Livin' for the City" and the first single "Red Light") being self-penned. Aiming for the back rows, Long Time Coming boasts booming, sing-along mid-tempo choruses in "Save Yourself" and "Goodbye Letter," perfect for the lighter-waving crowd. He has also transformed into a soulman of sorts, evidenced by the Prince/ Michael McDonald influences on "Touch," "Beautiful One," "The One I Got," and the funky "If We Try." Once a burgeoning guitar hero, Lang's solos are now integrated into the material, further bolstering the hard rock/soul approach. Leaving the blues, Lang has moved towards the mainstream on his most polished and radio-ready album yet. --Hal Horowitz