Member Since: 2/23/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/claylangstone
Band Members: Contributors on Doug's band tracks include Laura Newbury, Leif Christian Ovesen, William Troiani, Magne Hellesjo, Mike Beck, Tone Stojka, Tore Blesterud, Anders Nesblom, Harald Vaernor, Jarl Edward. Doug also hosts a weekly radio show, BETTER DAYS, Thursdays from 10 to midnight Pacific time, webcast around the world at www.coopradio.org. Check out his radio show site at myspace.com/betterdaysradio for details.
Influences: "Prairie. Footprints in silt, rockpile graves, nuisance grounds, barbed-wire fences. Wind singing in attics, pots hung on clotheslines to shine them back to silver. Uncle Bill at the slaughterhouse nights, black blood in the cracks in his fingers. Uncle Joe driving trains to Portal, North Dakota and back, his whistle at the crossroads while I slept. Farm summers, chewing wheat to gum, Zella's pie, neighbouring widow who called me a poet when I was
eight. Grandfathers I never knew. Imagine, listen, dig in the clay. This was frontier and bones lie buried under. Fishing with Bill, curve in the road at
Tuxford en route to Buffalo Pound. Meadowlarks on wires, wind blowing
dust into my eyes, Hank Williams on the high-shelf radio. Why don't you
love me like you used to do?Dylan led me back through Ramblin' Jack to Woody. Ochs, too. Buffy Sainte-Marie. Leonard Cohen. Mickey Newbury. Townes. Gaughan. Christy Moore. Willie P Bennett. Kristofferson. Prine Mimi Farina. Influenced by everything I've witnessed, felt, read, heard, touched, loved, lost, reclaimed. Learning to flower, as Gilbert said, by tightening.""Doug Lang brings back visions of a scenery hidden in the mind and the heart, written only by the best poets of ancient and modern times..." -Egbert Meyers, Holland~~~"I'm adding Doug Lang to my favorite Canadian songwriters, which includes Neil Young, Ian Tyson, Joni Mitchell, and Leonard Cohen..." -Mike Beck~~~"Doug Lang is for real. Thus he writes and performs songs that are for real.
Cut from an old mold but here now too. In a world where integrity grows more and more scarce, Doug Lang still has it..." -Steve Young
Sounds Like: Another voice has joined the choir...
Record Label: wanted
Type of Label: None