Long Time Coming by Jonny Lang

Long Time Coming, Jonny Lang's fourth studio album, arrived on A&M on October 14, 2003, and the title owns up to the wait: five years had slipped by since Wander This World. Marti Frederiksen and Ron Fair produced it alongside Lang, with sessions split between MF Studios and The Attic in Monrovia and Rumbo Recorders in Canoga Park.

This is the blues guitarist going looking for soul. The grooves lean hard into R&B without letting go of the blues, the rock edges come out sharper than on anything he'd done before, and "Touch" is a slow jam that would sit comfortably next to modern R&B-pop. The guest list is a hoot: Eminem programmed the drums on a cover of Edgar Winter's "Dying to Live", and Aerosmith's Steven Tyler blows harmonica on "Happiness and Misery". It climbed to number 17 on the Billboard 200 and went all the way to the top of the Blues Albums chart.

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