Kirk Lorange

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Canadian guitarist Kirk Lorange arrived in Australia in 1975 and quickly became part of the music scene in Sydney. Shortly after his arrival he met singer songwriter Richard Clapton and wound up recording and touring with him. His distinctive slide guitar sound on tunes like Deep Water, Goodbye Tiger and Capricorn Dancer has become engrained in the fabric of Aussie music. He also formed his own band with Doug Ashdown, Greg Lyon, Doug Bligh and Wayne Findlay called Sleeping Dogs. They opened for Supertramp on their national 'Crime of the Century' tour.

Kirk became one of Sydney's busier session musicians in the late 70's and 80's, contributing to scores of album tracks, hundreds of TV/radio commercials and several movie soundtracks. He appears on albums by Doug Ashdown, Kevin Johnson, Dragon, Renee Geyer, Marc Hunter, Jon English, Mike McClelland, Richard Clapton, Brian Cadd, Glenn Shorrock, Keith Urban, Swanee, Sharon O'Neill, Shane Howard, John Williamson, Marcia Hines ... just to mention a few, mostly on slide guitar.

In 1984 he recorded his solo album Kirk Lorange - No Apostrophe for WEA Records. It reached top 15 in many Aussie charts but the album failed to get released in America.

In the late 80's Kirk and Kevin Bennett formed legendary 'fun' band Chasin the Train that played in and around Sydney for close to 15 years. The band included Marc Meyer on drums and Ian Lees on bass. Another of Kirk's lineups, The Six Amigos, had the pleasure of opening for The Highwaymen nationally in 1991.

In the early 90's, Kirk wrote PlaneTalk - The Truly Totally Different Guitar Instruction Book, a novel approach to teaching the art of fretboard navigation. He also created Guitar for Beginners and Beyond, a free teaching site that has (as of Jan 2007) over 25,000 members.

He now lives at Tamborine Mountain. His three kids Danny, Rohan and Astrid are all in their twenties, scattered between Melbourne and Byron Bay. He continues to teach guitar online and still plays live from time to time, often with Brisbane band "The Smokin' Crawdads".