#a:shadowland

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I'm smitten right now with this photo (scanned from Bay Area Music, June 1989, a newsprint publication).

"I really just react to what's going on in my life," lang says, attempting to explain her look. . . Shrugging off comments like, "Why doesn't she look more like a girl?" and "Isn't that really a young John Lennon on the cover of Shadowland?", lang remains a likeable maverick with one of the sweetest smiles and the warmest eyes this side of Holly Hunter. "Now," k.d. admits, "I'm not sure what I'm going to wear or look like on this tour."

-k.d. at the start of her Absolute Torch and Twang tour 

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"A country original: one of a kind in a world of stereotypes."

The Austin Statesman on k.d. in a review of Shadowland. 

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This is the music video for "Honky Tonk Angels Medley" from Shadowland, featuring a legendary country line-up: k.d., Loretta Lynn, Brenda Lee, and Kitty Wells. The same year that k.d. won a Grammy for Best Country Vocal Collaboration for "Crying" with Roy Orbison, she was also nominated in that same category for this song.

I love this video for three reasons:

the one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-others visual impact of k.d. next to these grand country ladies

there are some gorgeous, swoon-worthy vocals 

if I ever figure out how to make animated gifs, I'm capturing k.d.'s epic hair toss and air fiddle playing :)