Word: langs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...highlight of the evening was reliving old favorites, and lang didn't disappoint in this arena either. After a rendition of "Wash Me Clean," a song about "tarnished dreams," lang joked, "I promised that, no matter how tough things got, we would never sell that song to a detergent company!" Her description of the distance between two lovers in Chris Isaak's "Western Stars," from her country album Shadowlands, was also magnificent. But the audience's unquestionable favorite was her version of Roy Orbison's "Crying," in which she lamented at what seems sometimes to be a universal female condition...
...backdrop of Symphony Hall also lent a classic, almost gothic feel to the proceedings, with its black and red drapery, gold trim and metal-studded leather seats. lang walked the stage in her trademark black pinstripes like she was on Star Search, feeding off the audience's love and enthusiasm and maintaining a constant dialogue with its members. Like singers from the '20s who preceded her in loungey style, she synchronized fluid and natural movements with the simplicity and steadiness of her own voice. Even while delivering what must have been vocally straining performances, she managed to maintain an ease...
Besides being able to lend an original feel to old songs, k.d. lang was a master at remaining a real person onstage. During parts of songs when her backup musicians play solo, she gave them her head-swaying, toe-tapping attention. When her fans called out "I love you" during a standing ovation, she responded, "It's mutual." She often let the music get the best of her and improvised dances across the stage. During a rendition of "Miss Chatelaine" from her Ingenue album, lang put the mike down just long enough to do a combination merengue-chacha...
Which brings us to another point: sexual innuendoes. After teasing one of her backup vocalists, lang remarked, "I know I'm going to get it after the show." Wink wink. The audience almost went into contortions over that...
...surprisingly, the evening ended with two encores, featuring what are arguably the best songs in lang's repertoire, including, of course, the self-described "medley of my hit," "Constant Craving." In a fantastic piece of theater, lang followed "Constant Craving" with Patsy Cline's "Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray," which she sang while sitting at a cafe table brought in especially for that song. But most moving of all was "Infinite and Unforeseen," a song about finding love in the most obvious of places and finding home in one's own backyard. She prefaced this climactic performance with a dedication...