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K D Lang on her platinum-selling, four-time Grammy-winning career as a singer-songwriter and her latest album with Neko Case and Laura Veirs.

Cerys’ guest is the platinum-selling, four-time Grammy-winning, genre-spanning Canadian singer-songwriter, K D Lang. K D draws on a broad range of musical influences, many of which have been reflected in reinterpretations of songs by Leonard Cohen, Roy Orbison, Neil Young and more.

She has enjoyed chart success with her own compositions and has a song writing credit on the Rolling Stones track Anybody Seen My Baby? Her film soundtrack work includes Gus Van Sant’s Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, and she has collaborated with pop and country luminaries like Bonnie Raitt, Loretta Lynn, Elton John and Tony Bennett, who described her as β€œthe best singer of her generation”.

K D’s latest musical venture is a collaboration with Neko Case and Laura Veirs, which came to fruition after she sent an email to both singers, on a whim, that simply read: "I think we should make a record together." The resulting album is released this month and will be supported by a tour of North America.

(Photo: K D Lang performs on Later with Jools Holland)

50 minutes

Last on

Sun 12 Jun 2016 21:06GMT

Music Played

  • k.d. lang

    Constant Craving

  • Patsy Cline

    Stop, Look and Listen

  • k.d. lang

    There You Go

  • k.d. lang

    Got the Bull By the Horns

  • k.d. lang

    Honky Tonk Angels Medley

  • k.d. lang

    Big Big Love

  • k.d. lang & Roy Orbison

    Crying

  • Ella Fitzgerald

    So In Love

  • k.d. lang

    Sweet Little Cherokee

  • Duke Ellington

    I CanΒ’t Give You Anything But Love

  • Laura Veirs

    King Kong Kitchie

  • k.d. lang, Neko Case & Laura Veirs

    Best Kept Secret

  • k.d. lang

    DonΒ’t Be A Lemming Polka

Broadcasts

  • Sat 11 Jun 2016 13:06GMT
  • Sun 12 Jun 2016 19:06GMT
  • Sun 12 Jun 2016 21:06GMT

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