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K.D. LANG / watershed(Nonesuch/Warner)
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POP AND ROCK
K.D. LANG
watershed
(Nonesuch/Warner)
CANADA'S most famous capital-letter abstainer started out as a hard-core honky-tonk twanger, remodelled herself as a torch singer and now finds herself in almost full-on adult contemporary mode.
One of the definitions of watershed is a point of transition, which sums up lang's latest perfectly. She is in a mellow mood on her first new material in eight year...
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