Born to a comedian & a clown, Nashville based Australian Indie-Roots artist, Jordie Lane spent his early years in a traveling circus. His nomadic touring lifestyle and knack for comedic storytelling confirm the theory one is a product of their upbringing, but when you watch Jordie perform live it is his incredible voice and unique rhythmic guitar playing that seem like they come from another place and another time. 

It is a voice that has taken him around the world, performing major festivals in the US, Canada, UK and Australia, and touring with the likes of international legends, Gotye, Billy Bragg, Old Crow Medicine Show, Neko Case, Cat Power, The Weakerthans, Ruthie Foster, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and The Moody Blues

Lane has performed duets with US artists, Mary Gauthier, Ruthie Foster, and Eilen Jewel, and most recently toured as Opening act and backing band for songwriter Kim Richey.

He’s been a guest on hit Australian TV shows, ‘Spicks & Specks’ and ‘Rock Wiz’, and was also invited to perform Triple J Radio’s coveted ‘Like A Version’ with fellow Australian & Milk Records artist Jen Cloher. 

Jordie’s songwriting and musicianship have taken him places off the regular touring circuit including composing the score and soundtrack for Australian Documentary ‘Spirit Walker - Clinton’s Walk For Justice. 

He also co-wrote and starred in the sell-out season of ‘Scotty & Son’, at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, which almost took home the gong for ‘Best Show of The Festival’. 

Meeting co-writer, producer and multi instrumentalist Clare Reynolds was where a truly magical sound for the ages was formed. A vocal and instrumental harmonic quality matched by few other partnerships, their symbiotic connection has been likened to floating somewhere between Gillian Welch & David Rawlings and Shovels & Rope. 

After a lengthy hiatus (lets just call it a pandemic),
acclaimed Australian singer-songwriter, Jordie Lane is back with, The Empty House Tapes Vol. 1 & 2, via Blood Thinner Records.

JORDIE LANE - The Empty House Tapes Vol. 1 & 2 which will be available as a tour exclusive CD. Volume 1, comprising mostly spontaneous rambling folk style songs written in the moment, with Volume 2, finding itself straddling to more of a raw Outlaw Country sound. All written and recorded in a vacant house in Nashville, Tennessee, engineered, produced and mixed by Lane himself, enlisting John McLaggan to complete the Mastering in Saint John, on Canada’s East Coast. It's an old school, throwback storyteller set, telling tales of wild times on the road,
Nostalgia for home, and observations of the intense past few years, with social, political and civil unrest in America while Jordie was there amongst it.

Lane's own experiences, in last leaving Australia at the height of the 2019-20 bushfires, to then witnessing his Nashville neighbourhood being hit by an EF3 Tornado, then hit with the ongoing Pandemic completely crippling the 'touring life’ for over two years, all led to a serendipitous conversation with a local landlord in Nashville who set Lane up in an old vacant empty house.

Written & Recorded by Jordie Lane in an Empty House.

Mixed by Jordie Lane at Lockeland Sound, Nashville, TN, USA
Mastered by John McLaggan at Parachute Mastering, Saint John, NB, Canada

'When a house is empty, dusty, echoey, and lonesome. When I don't live there, when it's not stuffed with all my physical and emotional baggage...That's where I discovered there's infinite space and energy that comes flooding through the walls and into my hands and mind and voice. I found a way to freely express and understand not only my story, but otherworldly ideas that came seeping through the old floor boards too. This may also be attributed to the delirious state I found myself in, as the Old house had no air conditioning or running water, and it was the middle of hot steamy Nashville summer 

“Take pieces of Jeff Tweedy, Ron Sexsmith and Jackson Browne, melt them down in a beautiful crucible of music and you end up with Jordie Lane: a truly diverse folk musician” FBI Radio

“A young man with an old soul and an honest sound, harkening back to Gram Parsons and Bob Dylan” – The Bluegrass Situation

“Displaying the soulful tenderness of Ron Sexsmith and Ray LaMontagne…Lane’s gentle finger picking and intimate vocals lend a somber grace that is universal” – Rolling Stone Magazine