k.d. lang Drag

3.5 Stars (out of 5) - "...What brings it all together...are the gorgeous arrangements and lang's flawless renderings. Wherer lang used to indulge in showy histrionics, the singer has finally learned to keep her pipes in check..."
"...Rather than use the stuffy supper-club orchestrations heard on standard ablums by the like of Natalie Cole, Lang and producer Craig Street have fashioned spare, cushiony settings that...inhabit a lost world--here, between smoky cabaret, brush-drum jazz, and honky-tonk..." - Rating: B+
"...she's even smarter than we already thought and even more sophisticated in a nattily-attired, emotional'n'tired Jazz Club kind of way than ever before..."