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Well, people who are blues purist types are usually the most vocal and the ones that pop up on the websites.

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Jonny Lang
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: January 29
Guitarist
Singer-Songwriter
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North Dakota
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I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.
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Who I am musically I hope will just keep changing and changing.
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Yeah, but Jesus is the most important thing to me and I want to be bold about it.
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Right, yeah, you know, my favorite thing just globally about music is just hopefully I'm able to be, you know, blessing the people in any way that I can.
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When you get just that right audience and just that right sound on stage and you can just sit back and kinda just let it happen and it's not really any work. I love those moments. Nothing can beat that for me.
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I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that.
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I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.
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You know, being able to, in my mind, have a song that you know doesn't really have any loose ends or you know, extra fat in it, so to speak.
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I moved from Minnesota out to Los Angeles and I thought I was going to hate it out there, but I really like it.
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Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and really listened to them - my first guitar influences. It's been awhile since I revisited that.
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I've been in fortunate position of never really having to battle with my record company to do the things I wanted to do in the studio.
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I think you have to know exactly what you want. Whether you want to be a guitar player or a musician, you have to be really focused on it if you really want to do it.
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With the style of music that I do, I don't think it's at the top of their agenda to push me into doing any compromising material.
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I see a lot of parents now who are really supporting their kids playing music.
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I feel so blessed, and God has been so good to me.
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When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.
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It seemed at first that everybody was more concerned with my age.
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Yeah, touring can get rough some times and draining, but I always have to pinch myself and realize that I'm doing what I love.
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I really enjoy what I do and have been fortunate to pursue basically whatever I'm feeling at the time.
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I'm glad I've learned what I've learned when I learned it.
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