Shadowland (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Shadowland
Type = Album
Artist = k.d. lang


Released = 1988
Recorded = Bradley's Barn
Mt. Juliet, Tennessee
Genre = Country
Length = 35:17
Label = Sire, Warner Bros.
Producer = Owen Bradley
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ghdkyl1jxpsb~T1 link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/kdlang/albums/album/240285/review/5942443/shadowland link]
Last album = "Angel with a Lariat"
(1987)
This album = "Shadowland"
(1988)
Next album = "Absolute Torch and Twang"
(1989)

"Shadowland" is the debut solo album by k.d. lang, released in 1988 (see 1988 in music). The album included her collaboration with Kitty Wells, Loretta Lynn and Brenda Lee on "Honky Tonk Angels' Medley" and was produced by Owen Bradley, who produced Patsy Cline's best-known work.

Track listing

ide one

#"Western Stars" (Chris Isaak) – 3:12
#"Lock, Stock and Teardrops" (Roger Miller) – 3:28
#"Sugar Moon" (Cindy Walker, Bob Wills) – 2:26
#"I Wish I Didn't Love You So" (Frank Loesser) – 3:07
#"(Waltz Me) Once Again Around the Dance Floor" (Don Goodman, Sara Johns, Jack Rowland) – 2:35
#"Black Coffee" (Sonny Burke, Paul Francis Webster) – 3:17

ide two

#"Shadowland" (Dick Hyman, Charles Tobias) – 2:28
#"Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes" (Slim Willet) – 2:20
#"Tears Don't Care Who Cries Them" (Fred Tobias, Charles Tobias) – 3:03
#"I'm Down to My Last Cigarette" (Harlan Howard, Billy Walker) – 2:46
#"Busy Being Blue" (Stewart MacDougall) – 3:40
#"Honky Tonk Angels' Medley" – 2:55
#*"In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)" (Leroy Carr, Don Raye)
#*"You Nearly Lose Your Mind" (Ernest Tubb)
#*"Blues Stay Away from Me" (Alton Delmore, Rabon Delmore, Wayne Raney, Henry Glover)

Personnel

*k.d. lang - vocals
*Harold Bradley - banjo, bass, ukulele, gut string guitar
*Jimmy Capps - rhythm guitar
*Buddy Emmons - steel guitar
*Tony Migliore - piano, accordion
*Roger Morris - piano
*Hargus "Pig" Robbins - piano
*Hal Rugg - steel guitar
*Buddy Spicher - fiddle
*Henry Strzelecki - bass
*Pete Wade - electric guitar
*Rob Hajacos - fiddle
*Buddy Harman - drums
*Jim Horn - saxophone
*The Nashville String Machine
**Bill McElhiney - arrangements
**David Angell - violin
**Roy Christensen - cello
**Connie Ellisor - violin
**Ted Madsen - violin
**Bob Mason - cello
**Pamela Sixfin - violin
**Carl Gorodetzky - violin
**Dennis Molchan - violin
**George Binkley III - violin
**John Borg - viola
**Gary VanOsdale - viola
**Anthony LaMarchina - cello
**Lee Larrison - violin
*The Jordanaires - vocals on "Western Stars", "I Wish I Didn't Love You So" & "Tears Don't Care Who Cries Them"
**Gordon Stoker
**Louis Dean Nunley
**Neal Matthews, Jr.
**Duane West
*Tennessee - vocals on "Lock, Stock and Teardrops", "Sugar Moon", "Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes" & "I'm Down to My Last Cigarette"
**Hurshel Wiginton
**Doug Clements
**Louis Dean Nunley
**Jim Ferguson
*The Honky Tonk Angels - vocals on "Honky Tonk Angels' Medley"
**Brenda Lee
**Loretta Lynn
**Kitty Wells

Production

*Producer: Owen Bradley
*Engineer: Bobby Bradley

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Singles - Billboard (North America)"Lock, Stock, and Teardrops" was used in the soundtrack for the movie The Fly II, 1989.