Lie to Me by Jonny Lang (CD, 1997, A&M Records) with ticket stub.
Lie to Me is the second studio album by the American blues guitarist Jonny Lang, released on January 28, 1997. It is Lang's big-label debut, released a day before he turned 16.
Track listing:
"Lie to Me" (Bruce McCabe/David Z) - 4:11
"Darker Side" (McCabe) - 5:07
"Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" (Sonny Boy Williamson) - 4:15
"Still Wonder" (Kevin Bowe) - 3:45
"Matchbox" (Ike Turner) - 3:29
"Back for a Taste of Your Love" (Syl Johnson/Darryl Carter/Brenda Johnson) - 3:32
"A Quitter Never Wins" (Tinsley Ellis/Margaret Simpson) - 5:56
"Hit the Ground Running" (Michael Lunn/Jeff Silbar) - 3:31
"Rack 'Em Up" (McCabe) - 4:07
"When I Come to You" (Jonny Lang/Dennis Morgan) - 4:58
"There's Gotta Be a Change" (Gwendolyn Collins) - 4:11
"Missing Your Love" (Lang/Morgan) - 3:53
Jonny Lang was born in Fargo, North Dakota, of Norwegian descent. He started playing the guitar for his friends at age 12. He played modern hits to the classics, even performing a rendition of Jimi Hendrix's take on the National Anthem. Soon after his father took him to see the Bad Medicine Blues Band, one of the few blues bands in Fargo, Lang started taking guitar lessons from Ted Larsen, the band's guitar player. Several months after Lang began, he joined the band, which was then renamed Kid Jonny Lang & The Big Bang. Two years later A&M Records, then home of Janet Jackson and Soundgarden, was invited to come to see him at a live performance at Bunkers Bar in Minneapolis, and he was signed to the label becoming the latest in a trend of young blues guitarists that then included Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Derek Trucks. The band moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and independently released the album Smokin' when Lang was 14. He was signed to A&M Records in 1996. He released Lie to Me on January 28, 1997. The next album, Wander this World, was released on October 20, 1998, and earned a Grammy nomination. This was followed by the more soulful Long Time Coming on October 14, 2003. Lang also made a cover of Edgar Winter's "Dying to Live". Lang's 2006 album, the gospel-influenced Turn Around, won him his first Grammy Award.
In his earliest performing years, Lang always performed barefoot on stage because "it feels good" and once in tribute to Luther Allison, a friend who had recently died. He has since given up that practice, after several near-accidents and electric shocks.
In more than ten years on the road, Lang has toured with the Rolling Stones, Buddy Guy, Aerosmith, B.B. King, Blues Traveler, Jeff Beck and Sting. In1999 he was invited to play for a White House audience that included President and Mrs. Clinton. Earlier that year he was selected by the newly elected Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura to perform at his Inaugural Ball. Lang also makes a cameo appearance in the film Blues Brothers 2000 as a janitor. In 2004, Eric Clapton asked Lang to play at the Crossroads Guitar Festival to raise money for the Crossroads Centre Antigua.
Lang also appears regularly as a part of the Experience Hendrix Tour along with many other well-known guitarists to pay tribute to the deceased guitar legend.