Jonny Lang, 16-year-old new discovery of the blues world, has not only impressed fans as well as experts with the soulful, and technically well-done delivery of blues music. At the age of 15, his major-label debut album Lie to Me was published.

"I want people to really make a judgment of me as a musician, without anything else clouding the issue, like my age," - to quote Jonny Lang (real name: Jon Gordon Langseth, Jr.). I bet that people were also ready and fast at trying to judge his habit of performing barefoot. At least he was asked about that in an online Q-&-A session by a young female fan, who saw him perform barefoot as opening act for Aerosmith (sic!), in July 1997. His answer, more or less, was that it it was the spirit moving him to do that (I am not sure, whether he was referring to getting the idea, suddenly, or the spirit of the concert and the surroundings - but it is clear, that it was prompted all from inside - and has since then been his trademark... being barefoot, since it feels right. - reminds me a little of Deana Carter, in that respect...)

A quote from a review of his CD written by Linda Laban at www.seattlesquare.com:

However, when Lang sings Sonny Boy Williamson's "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" ("tell your momma and your poppa I'm a schoolboy too!") over veteran harp player Pat Hayes' slow and easy harmonica backing, like the biggest, most seductive wolf on the block, any theories of relativity disappear. You just have to lean back, put your feet up, and groove along. Message to Lang: don't read your press, just weigh it. You're doing just fine.

Various promotional shots of Jonny Lang in bare feet:

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