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Wander This World

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Released
  
October 20, 1998

Length
  
52:52

Release date
  
20 October 1998

Label
  
A&M Records

Recorded
  
1998

Artist
  
Jonny Lang

Producer
  
David Z

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Wander This World (1998)
  
Long Time Coming (2003)

Genres
  
Blues, Blues rock, Funk, Blue-eyed soul

Similar
  
Long Time Coming, Lie to Me, Smokin, Live At The Ryman, Turn Around

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Wander This World is the third studio album by American blues guitarist Jonny Lang, released in 1998, when he was 17. The album was recorded at Seedy Underbelly Studios and Oarfin Studios in Minneapolis and the Sound Kitchen in Nashville. This album produced Lang's first Grammy nomination.

Contents

The album contains a mix of genres; some tracks are blues, while others are Southern-style soul, funk, or rock with blues feeling. "Angel of Mercy" and Luther Allison's "Cherry Red Wine" are twelve-bar blues, "Walking Away" and "Second Guessing" are similar to 1960s Memphis soul, and "The Levee" and "Still Rainin'" are more rock orientated.

Reviewer Alex Henderson commented on how mature the 17-year-old Lang sounded, saying the album often sounded like it could be the work of a 30-year-old.

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Track listing

  1. "Still Rainin'" (Bruce McCabe) – 4:49
  2. "Second Guessing" (David Z/McCabe) – 5:10
  3. "I Am" (Prince/Z/Levi Seacer, Jr.) – 5:04
  4. "Breakin' Me" (Lang/Kevin Bowe) – 4:32
  5. "Wander This World" (Paul Diethelm/McCabe) – 4:49
  6. "Walking Away" (Lang/Jerry Lynn Williams) – 4:14
  7. "The Levee" (Bowe/Lang) – 3:41
  8. "Angel of Mercy" (McCabe/Mike Henderson) – 4:30
  9. "Right Back" (Williams/Danny Kortchmar) – 3:59
  10. "Leaving to Stay" (Bowe) – 4:35
  11. "Before You Hit the Ground" (Bowe/Lang) – 3:55
  12. "Cherry Red Wine" (Luther Allison) – 3:31
  13. "If This is Love" (Joe Louis Walker) – 3:01

Personnel

  • Jonny Lang – vocals, lead guitar
  • Richie Hayward – drums
  • David Smith – bass
  • Jack Holder – rhythm guitars, keyboards
  • Steve Cropper – guitars
  • Paul Diethelm – dobro on "Wander This World"
  • Kevin Bowe – rhythm guitar on "The Levee"
  • Tommy Burroughs – acoustic guitar on "Walking Away", background vocals on "Right Back"
  • Bruce McCabe – keyboards
  • Ricky Peterson – keyboards
  • Jimmy Davis – background vocals on "Right Back"
  • Eric Leeds – saxophone on "I Am"
  • Tom Tucker – engineer

    • Songs

    1Still Rainin'4:50
    2Second Guessing5:10
    3I Am5:05

    References

    Wander This World Wikipedia
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