Billboard: k.d. lang Displays Her "Astonishing Voice" on Tour

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After having performed three concerts in Florida this week showcasing songs from her latest album, Watershed, k.d. lang is on her way to North Carolina to play at UNC's Memorial Hall in Chapel Hill tomorrow night, and reviews are still coming in from last week's three-night residency at New York's Allen Room as part of Lincoln Center's American Songbook series.

Billboard magazine's Jessica Letkemann says that last Wednesday's set successfully spotlighted k.d.'s "fluent and, at times, astonishing voice." All the while, it was apparent how much k.d. was enjoying herself. "It's rare," writes Letkemann, "to see an artist who seemed to genuinely have fun as much as lang was."

The reviewer found the highlight of the evening to be k.d.'s "spirited, soaring version" of fellow Canadian songwriter Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," which she recorded for her 2004 Nonesuch debut, Hymns of the 49th Parallel. As Letkemann reports, "lang wove the interlocking, mesmerizing notes into each other, each building to the song's undeniably spiritual climax."

In the end, notes the Billboard review, "the Canadian with a big voice reminded a small roomful of New Yorkers what a pleasure it can be to hear someone really sing."

To read the full review, visit billboard.com.

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Soon afterward, k.d. was in West Palm Beach, playing at the Kravis Center. Palm Beach Post staff writer Leslie Gray Streeter writes:

The key to lang's appeal both on records and in person is that great, effortless voice, a warm instrument that can start a song soft and delicate and then crescendo into an impassioned but always elegantly controlled roar.

To read Streeter's review, visit palmbeachpost.com.

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At her Tampa Bay performance, reports Creative Loafing's local music blog, k.d. repeatedly proved to the "ecstatic" crowd at Ruth Eckerd Hall,

she can go from soaring to intimate to down-home friendly all in the space of an evening---or sometimes even within one song. Her voice is better than ever. It's richer and darker now, yet she can still hit and sustain high notes as pure and lovely as a mountain stream.

Reviewer David Warner writes that even at the end of her 90-minute set, k.d. "left you longing for more of that addictive voice."

To read the review, visit blogs.creativeloafing.com.

Lang_watershed_deluxe_lg Click here to add the Watershed limited-edition, deluxe CD plus free album MP3s directly to your Shopping Cart now for only $20.98. Visit the Nonesuch Store for more options.

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  • Tuesday, March 4, 2008
    Billboard: k.d. lang Displays Her "Astonishing Voice" on Tour

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    After having performed three concerts in Florida this week showcasing songs from her latest album, Watershed, k.d. lang is on her way to North Carolina to play at UNC's Memorial Hall in Chapel Hill tomorrow night, and reviews are still coming in from last week's three-night residency at New York's Allen Room as part of Lincoln Center's American Songbook series.

    Billboard magazine's Jessica Letkemann says that last Wednesday's set successfully spotlighted k.d.'s "fluent and, at times, astonishing voice." All the while, it was apparent how much k.d. was enjoying herself. "It's rare," writes Letkemann, "to see an artist who seemed to genuinely have fun as much as lang was."

    The reviewer found the highlight of the evening to be k.d.'s "spirited, soaring version" of fellow Canadian songwriter Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," which she recorded for her 2004 Nonesuch debut, Hymns of the 49th Parallel. As Letkemann reports, "lang wove the interlocking, mesmerizing notes into each other, each building to the song's undeniably spiritual climax."

    In the end, notes the Billboard review, "the Canadian with a big voice reminded a small roomful of New Yorkers what a pleasure it can be to hear someone really sing."

    To read the full review, visit billboard.com.

    ---

    Soon afterward, k.d. was in West Palm Beach, playing at the Kravis Center. Palm Beach Post staff writer Leslie Gray Streeter writes:

    The key to lang's appeal both on records and in person is that great, effortless voice, a warm instrument that can start a song soft and delicate and then crescendo into an impassioned but always elegantly controlled roar.

    To read Streeter's review, visit palmbeachpost.com.

    ---

    At her Tampa Bay performance, reports Creative Loafing's local music blog, k.d. repeatedly proved to the "ecstatic" crowd at Ruth Eckerd Hall,

    she can go from soaring to intimate to down-home friendly all in the space of an evening---or sometimes even within one song. Her voice is better than ever. It's richer and darker now, yet she can still hit and sustain high notes as pure and lovely as a mountain stream.

    Reviewer David Warner writes that even at the end of her 90-minute set, k.d. "left you longing for more of that addictive voice."

    To read the review, visit blogs.creativeloafing.com.

    Lang_watershed_deluxe_lg Click here to add the Watershed limited-edition, deluxe CD plus free album MP3s directly to your Shopping Cart now for only $20.98. Visit the Nonesuch Store for more options.

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