When you are gifted with the guitar playing abilities and natural blues voice of Jonny Lang, there are expectations that would cripple most 16 year olds, but he never backed away from the challenge. Lang’s guitar abilities were never in question, nor his vocal ability, but his albums always left you feeling like he was trapped in the blues by those around him.
This album feels like it is his own, where his heart really belongs. The playing is solid and his guitar skills are evident but not pushed forward like in his previous work. These songs all have a solo, as opposed to much of Lang’s early work, where a song seemed to be built around the solo.
The music is more melodic and the layers of voices, guitars, and backing instruments create a wave that propels the music forward before crashing against a rocky shore. Fight For My Soul is well recorded, with no artifacts from dynamic compression, and is easy to listen to multiple times without any ear fatigue.