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k.d. lang (1997)

Interview by Johnny Black, Rock's Backpages audio, July 1997

America's First Lady of Polysexual Song talks about the making of Drag, the art of interpretation, and of her love of all things Burt Bacharach

File format: mp3; file size: 12.9meg, interview length: 14' 06" sound quality: *****

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Interview by Gene Santoro, Fi, September 1997

IN POSTWAR America, pumped with the energy of victory and prosperity and the conflicts of changing social attitudes, pop culture opened up new frontiers. The ...

k.d. lang: Back to the emotional basics

Profile and Interview by David Toop, The Times, 25 May 1990

A WOMAN who favours the use of lower-case letters for her name rather than capitals, k.d. lang claims to have given up intellectualizing country music. ...

Five Years That Revolutionized Country Music

Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, 2019

THE COUNTRY MUSIC situation in 1985 was so dire that The New York Times published an article that, if not quite an obituary, was a ...

k.d. lang: Hammersmith Odeon

Live Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 11 May 1992

Capital of her country ...

k.d. lang: Wembley Arena, London

Live Review by Paul Sexton, The Times, 11 May 1996

Ingénue no longer ...

k.d. lang (1997) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Johnny Black, Rock's Backpages transcripts, July 1997

This is a transcription of Johnny's 1997 audio interview with k.d. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

k.d. lang: Painters Mill Music Fair, Owings Mills MD

Live Review by Geoffrey Himes, Evening Sun (Baltimore), The , 15 February 1990

Painters Mill rocks again with k.d. lang ...

k.d. lang: All You Can Eat (Warner Bros.) **

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 10 October 1995

Lang Delivers Torch Music Without Fire ...

k.d. lang: Even Cowgirls Get The Blues (WEA 9362 454 332)

Review by Sid Griffin, Q, December 1993

k.d. lang: defining the word sublime. ...

k.d. lang: Ingénue (WEA 26840)

Review by Max Bell, Vox, April 1992

POPULAR OPINION has had it that, on her latest album Ingénue, k.d. lang has skirted the Country style as if it were an unpleasant cesspit ...

k.d. lang: Academy, Birmingham

Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 24 April 1996

A big-boned gal among friends ...

No more ingenue: The Constant Craving of k.d. lang

Profile and Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 8 October 1995

NEW YORK – Curled up on a couch in a hotel suite, dressed in baggy black athletic garb, k.d. lang ponders the nature of the ...

k.d. lang: Shadowland (Sire WX17LP/Cass/CD)

Review by Mark Cooper, Q, June 1988

k.d. lang's "torch'n'twang": corn with a cutting edge. ...

The Second Coming of k.d. lang

Profile and Interview by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 13 January 2008

When she came out 15 years ago, she became the poster girl of lesbian chic. Even Madonna courted her. Then the spotlight dimmed — until ...

k.d. lang: Shadowland: The Owen Bradley Sessions (Sire)

Review by Holly Gleason, Musician, July 1988

LISTENING TO Shadowland, k.d. lang's second album, you can't help thinking you've fallen into a time warp, back to when Patsy Cline ruled the radio. ...

k.d. lang: Ingénue (Sire/Warner Bros)

Review by Betty Page, New Musical Express, 21 March 1992

SOFTEN THE focus, put the total twang out to seed, put away the hard edge and the sharp suits for another day; k.d. has fallen ...

kd lang: Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, FL

Live Review by Holly Gleason, Harp, March 2008

KD LANG WALKED onstage, guitar on her back and glided effortlessly into 'Upstream', a song about the nature of life, the struggle of human nature ...

k.d. lang: Prairie Fire

Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 30 June 1989

WELCOME TO the Griffith Park Pony Rides. Assorted toddlers, most of them 2- or 3-something, are circling a dusty track, strapped onto tired ponies. Not ...

k.d. lang: Ingénue

Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, April 1992

SAME VANCOUVER studio, same production/writing team of lang, Greg Penny and Ben Mink, even the same pesky lower-case initials, but Absolute Torch And Twang was ...

k.d. lang: National Indoor Arena, Birmingham

Live Review by Johnny Black, MOJO, June 1996

BIG-BONED BOTTICELLI GIRL K.D. LANG IS LYING ON the floor. Knees up to her chest, hands clasped round the back of her head, she rocks ...

k.d.lang: Absolute Torch and Twang

Review by Holly Gleason, Rolling Stone, 13 July 1989

Absolute Torch and Twang – the third major-label LP by Canadian chanteuse K.D. Lang and the second with her band the Reclines – splits the ...

k.d. lang: k.d. Sings The Blues

Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, April 1993

She’s a genre-hopping pantheist, Lesbian, vegetarian, big-mouthed aromatherapist. In big boots. Yet despite unpromising ingredients, k.d. lang’s multi-layered cake continues to rise quite beautifully and ...

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