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dbarila said:
Is she typically a country artist?
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I was you like 10 years ago when I was first getting really into country. The man KD Lange song I knew was the 90s VH1 staple “Constant Cravings” which is not country at all. She seemed like an artist that middle-aged people liked.

Fast Forward 20 years and I learned that before going mainstream, her first few albums were “Country” country like too country for most modern country radio and hued closer to Alt Country but she was doing it in the 1980s when alt country wasn’t really a thing. Her closest contemporary peers were probably Dwight Yoakam and Lyle Lovett from a traditionalist sense but even they received more mainstream appeal than Lang who, as a Lesbian Canadian Country Artist wasn’t really accepted by Nashville. By the early 90s she seemed tired of Country and went for a decidedly adult-contemporary style.


Early Lang:


Mainstream Lang
 
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