Lanie Lane

Overview

In bars, theatres and festivals around Sydney, one woman has been educating Sydneysiders in a new version of an old sound. Lanie Lane bills herself as a lovechild of Muddy Waters and Doris Day. Singing solo on stage with her big blues guitar Betty, Lane pulls chanteuses from the fifties, and further, together into the present, focusing them live into a sound both antique and contemporary. Watching her live, her distant frame doesn't prepare you for the sheer vocal force about to unleash itself on your ears. Some singers borrow their sound from jazz or blues, or other earthy music from earlier times. Lanie Lane really just is that music.

Lane will perform three nights at the Shady Pines Saloon — a new sly-grog inspired, western-styled bar at the edge of Surry Hills. Small but powerful, Lane has supported Eliza Doolittle, was the voice of Sydney Festival's Trocadero and is soon to support Justin Townes Earle in a national tour. While it's not too dangerous yet not to know her sound, Lanie Lane gets around. Check her out before she's famous.