Jimmy D. Lane is an American

United States

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 blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

 guitarist

Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

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Biography

Lane was born to the Chess

Chess Records

Chess Records was an American record label based in Chicago, Illinois. It specialized in blues, R&B, soul, gospel music, early rock and roll, and occasional jazz releases....

 blues musician Jimmy Rogers

Jimmy Rogers

Jimmy Rogers was an American Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, best known for his work as a member of Muddy Waters' band of the 1950s.-Career:...

 and his wife Dorothy. In his childhood, he got to know many older bluesmen who worked with his father, including Muddy Waters

Muddy Waters

McKinley Morganfield , known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician, generally considered the "father of modern Chicago blues"...

, Howlin' Wolf

Howlin' Wolf

Chester Arthur Burnett , known as Howlin' Wolf, was an influential American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player....

, Willie Mabon

Willie Mabon

Willie Mabon was an American R&B singer, songwriter and pianist.-Career:Born Willie James Mabon, and brought up in Hollywood, Memphis, Tennessee, he had become known as a singer and pianist by the time he moved to Chicago in 1942. He formed a group, the Blues Rockers, and in 1949 began recording...

, Little Walter

Little Walter

Little Walter, born Marion Walter Jacobs , was an American blues harmonica player, whose revolutionary approach to his instrument has earned him comparisons to Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix, for innovation and impact on succeeding generations...

 and Albert King

Albert King

Albert King was an American blues guitarist and singer, and a major influence in the world of blues guitar playing.-Career:...

. Lane would say years later, "I feel blessed and fortunate to have known all those cats and I do not take it for granted." In 1998 Lane played for then President Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

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. Lane moved to Canada in 2007 and began, the now completed, double album project with his wife Beverly Butler'Lane.

Musical style

Lane's music has been likened to that of Stevie Ray Vaughan

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Stephen Ray "Stevie Ray" Vaughan was an American electric blues guitarist and singer. He was the younger brother of Jimmie Vaughan and frontman for Double Trouble, a band that included bassist Tommy Shannon and drummer Chris Layton. Born in Dallas, Vaughan moved to Austin at the age of 17 and...

 whose former band Double Trouble played with him on the 2004 album It's Time

It's Time (Jimmy D. Lane album)

It's Time is a Blues album released in 2004 by Jimmy D. Lane. It was described by reviewers as "an excellent place" to seek inspiration for "any fan of serious blues guitar". The album was recorded with Double Trouble, the former bandmates of Stevie Ray Vaughan, whose musical style it emulates...

. Other's have compared Lane's guitar work with that of Corey Stevens

Corey Stevens

-Biography:Stevens began playing guitar at age 11 and moved to Los Angeles after graduating from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale to pursue a career in the music business. Stevens worked as a school teacher for the Los Angeles Unified School District for ten years before signing a...

, Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Kenny Wayne Shepherd is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He has released several studio albums and experienced a rare level of commercial success both as a blues artist and a young musician.-Biography:Shepherd graduated Caddo Magnet High School in Shreveport, Louisiana...

, Jonny Lang

Jonny Lang

Jonny Lang is a Grammy award-winning American blues, gospel, and rock singer, songwriter and recording artist. Lang's music is notable for both his unusual voice, which has been compared to that of a forty-year-old blues veteran, and for his guitar solos...

, Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...

 and Jeff Healey

Jeff Healey

Norman Jeffrey "Jeff" Healey was a blind Canadian jazz and blues-rock vocalist and guitarist who attained musical and personal popularity, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s.-Early life:...

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Albums

• Sir Real, Blue Seal (1995)
• Long Gone
  Long Gone (Jimmy D. Lane album)
  Long Gone is a metal-edged, guitar blues album released in 1997 by Jimmy D. Lane.-Track listing:# Hear My Train A Comin'# Obsession Babies# Long Gone# I Shall Be Released# Shake, Shiver, Ache# Rollin' Stone# Whiskey# Boom Boom...
  
   featuring Jim Keltner on drums (1997) (APO Records)
• Legacy
  Legacy (Jimmy D. Lane album)
  -Track listing:#Hey Little Girl#Clue Me#Four O'Clock In The Morning#Going Downtown#Another Mule Kickin' In My Stall#In This Bed#Call It Blues#One Room Country Shack #Big House#Baby's Mule#Dem Blues#Pride #It's All Good...
  
   guest appearances by Jimmy Rogers, Hubert Sumlin, Sam Lay and Carey Bell (1998) (APO Records)
• It's Time
  It's Time (Jimmy D. Lane album)
  It's Time is a Blues album released in 2004 by Jimmy D. Lane. It was described by reviewers as "an excellent place" to seek inspiration for "any fan of serious blues guitar". The album was recorded with Double Trouble, the former bandmates of Stevie Ray Vaughan, whose musical style it emulates...
  
  (Jimmy D. Lane and Double Trouble) Produced by Eddie Kramer 2004 (APO Records)
• Rings (Jimmy D. Lane and Beverly Butler'Lane) (2010 LB Records)

Guest appearances

• Jimmy Rogers - Blues, Blues, Blues (Atlantic Records Corp. 1999) Jimmy Rogers, Jimmy D. Lane, Lowell Fulsom, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page, Jeff Healey, Stephen Stilles
• Jimmy Rogers - Blue Bird (APO Records)
• Jimmy Rogers / Big Moose Walker (Wolf Records)
• Blues Masters At The Crossroads – APO, 1998-2002 (24/96 DVD)
• Jimmie Lee Robinson – All My Life (APO Records)
• Jimmie Lee Robinson - Remember Me (APO Records)
• Rock With Me Baby (with Little Hatch) (APO Records)
• Nancy Bryan - Neon Angel (APO Records)
• Wild Child Butler – D2D (APO Records)
• Harry "Big Daddy" Hypolite - Louisiana Country Boy (APO Records)
• Eomot RaSun - Three Days Walkin (APO Records)
• Weepin' Willie - At Last On Time (APO Records)
• Honeyboy Edwards - Shake 'Em On Down (APO Records)
• Wild Child Butler - Sho' 'Nuff (APO Records)
• Henry Gray – D2D (APO Records)
• Hubert Sumlin - I Know You (APO Records)
• Pinetop Perkins - Pinetop Perkins (D2D) (APO Records)
• Henry Townsend - My Story (APO Records)
• Lazy Lester - Lazy Lester (D2D) (APO Records)
• B.B. King in Montreux Switzerland 1999
• Experience Hendrix Live at The Paramount Theatre DVD 2008

Note:(D2D is Direct to Disc. Recorded directly onto a vinyl disc)

External links

Jimmy D. Lane and Beverly Butler'Lane MySpace Page