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MUSIC Jordie Lane plays Public House Comment By Laurie Heuston Mail Tribune MailTribune.com By Laurie Heuston Mail Tribune Posted Sep. 17, 2015 at 9:00 AM Updated Sep 17, 2015 at 12:13 PM By Laurie Heuston Mail Tribune Posted Sep. 17, 2015 at 9:00 AM Updated Sep 17, 2015 at 12:13 PM » Social News Australian folk and roots artist Jordie Lane never had to run away from home to join the circus — his parents were part of a theater troupe called Murray River Performing Group. Founded in 1979, the troupe was the beginning of two of Victoria's most successful arts companies: Hothouse Theatre and Flying Fruit Fly Circus. "My parents took my little sister and I around the country when they performed," Lane says during a telephone interview. "My father eventually opened a circus academy, and my mother became a well-known comedian in Australia, Denise Scott. It was a strange upbringing." Lane began playing music during his final year at Thornbury High School in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. His earliest musical influences ranged from jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery to metal rock and rap bands Rage Against the Machine and Korn. "Then I heard this guy named Bob Dylan who totally opened my eyes and ears to listening to lyrics and stories," Lane says. "From there I discovered folk and country music, especially American stuff by Hank Williams and Woody Guthrie, then current-day artists like Gillian Welch. "In Melbourne, I met a player from Texas named Kevin Welch who impressed me. I liked his finger-picking style. It was thumb-style picking, sometimes called a Travis pick. I worked with it to have a full sound without a whole band." Named after Kentucky songwriter Merle Travis, Travis picking uses the thumb to play a steady bass rhythm and the fingers to fill out syncopated rhythms. It's a great accompaniment style for folk and country music. Lane met vocalist and guitar-case percussionist Clare Reynolds in 2011 at a songwriters-in-the-round session in Brisbane. "We met a few times later that year and began writing songs together," Lane says. "We realized straight away that our voices blend well." In 2012, the pair were asked to play the roles of Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris in writer Michael Bates' kind of play, musical and revue titled "Grievous Angel: The Legend of Gram Parsons," at the Athenaeum Theatre in Melbourne. Lane and Reynolds will perform at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, at Public House, 258 A St., Ashland, 541-488-9128. Ashland guitarist Justin Gordon will open the show. There is no cover. This is the duo's first trip to the Pacific Northwest. "We've played California and the East Coast, but we've never been past San Francisco until last weekend," Lane says. "We were lucky enough to be invited to work as performers and instructors at the Sisters Folk Festival. We participated at a song camp at the Americana Academy at Camp Caldera outside Sisters. Some of the workshop members had never written a song or played in front of an audience. At the end of the camp, they were performing original songs accompanied by professional musicians. "It was a beautiful way to go into the Sisters Folk Festival," he says. This year, Sisters Folk Festival featured Ashland band Patchy Sanders, Portland band Weather Machine, Celtic rockers Young Dubliners, songwriter and recording artist Danny O'Keefe and many other artists. Lane and Reynolds topped the three-day music fest with a show Monday alongside country roots artist Jonathan Byrd at O'Connor's in Southwest Portland. Lane finished a two-year international tour behind his 2013 EP "Not Built to Last" in June. The extended-play recording wasn't released in the U.S. until August 2014. His first studio album, "Sleeping Patterns," was released in 2009. Recorded at Adelphia Studios in Melbourne, it was released on Lane's independent record label, Blood Thinner. Another album, titled "Blood Thinner," was first conceived in Room 8 of the Joshua Tree Inn at the national park. "About half of the vocal and guitar tracks were born in that hotel room," Lane says. "The album was finished at a studio in Los Angeles." Grammy-winning producer and L.A.-based musician Tom Biller produced the album, and it was released in 2011 on Lane's independent label. To find more music by Lane, see www.jordielane.com . By Laurie Heuston Mail Tribune MailTribune.com By Laurie Heuston Mail Tribune Posted Sep. 17, 2015 at 9:00 AM Updated Sep 17, 2015 at 12:13 PM » Comment or view comments Reader Reaction » STAY INFORMED Email NewsLetter Sign Up Today Sign up for our newsletter and have the top headlines from your community delivered right to your inbox. Southern Oregon Directory Featured Businesses Loading... 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