A blues rock prodigy who blazed on the scene in his early teens, Jonny Lang's
virtuoso guitar shredding and soul-purging vocals caused a huge stir when he
first emerged from his family farm in Fargo, North Dakota in the mid-1990s.
Growing up listening to everything from Mariah Carey to Nirvana to gospel, Lang
started playing his sister's guitar at the age of 12 and was soon out jamming
with local blues band Bad Medicine and then formed his own group Kid Jonny Lang
and the Big Band.
During an era when young guitar mavericks like Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Joe
Bonamassa were all...