kd lang goes "truly western"
Friday, December 18, 2009 – Twenty five years after the album that started it all, k.d. lang's original label and management company Bumstead Records will release "a truly western experience 25th Anniversary Edition" on Jan. 19, 2010.
When Lang made the CD, she was a 20-year-old singer by the name of Kathy Lang from Edmonton Canada. She has since mixed genres, including torch and chanteuse to her mix.
The set will be two discs including rare and previously unreleased songs and videos from 1983 through to late 1985. All of the music was digitally re-mastered, the videos have been digitally enhanced. The physical release itself comes in eco-friendly packaging.
"k.d. lang - "a truly western experience - 25th Anniversary Edition" is available for Pre-Sale now at http://www.bumstead.com/kdlang/
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Anyone who witnessed k.d. lang's 1986 American television debut on Late Night with David Letterman will never forget the sight of the Canadian firecracker kicking up her heels in a gingham dress, belting out the electrifying Turn Me Round while her band, the Reclines, provided an incendiary soundtrack and tore up the floorboards behind her. It was a frenetic performance that was ultimately paid off by the 1987 release of "Angel with a Lariat," which beautifully displayed lang's ...
She came twirling out of Canada in 1987, pinching the cheeks of the Nashville establishment with a blend of countrypolitan vocals and rockin' Dave Edmunds-inspired rootsabilly. Before "Angel with a Lariat" appeared, Kathryn Dawn Lang had charmed her native land with television appearances, blistering live gigs and a nine-track album that coalesced her vision of country music.
This crisp-sounding 15-track reissue, fleshed out with live cuts, a demo, and her debut single, including ...
The cover design echoes the Clash's "London Calling" and is a reminder of k.d. lang's punk sensibilities - and sense of humor. The 20 songs are a testament to the Canadian's songwriting ability and, of course, that voice.
It's the one-in-a-million voice that propelled lang into the mainstream music world, completely on her own terms, and in spite of her gender-bending image. And now after more than two decades of acclaimed CDs, lang is in a position to boast and reminisce a little. ...
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