k.d. lang
23 articles
Audio interviews
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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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. ...
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. ...
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: 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: 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: 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. ...
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 ...
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: 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 ...
Live Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 11 May 1992
Capital of her country ...
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 ...
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. ...
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: 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: Academy, Birmingham
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 24 April 1996
A big-boned gal among friends ...
k.d. lang: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Paul Sexton, The Times, 11 May 1996
Ingénue no longer ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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