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Nashville is teeming with highly touted new singers and bands. Most of them seem to recall either the pure, unadulterated country music of Hank Williams or the manufactured country-pop of Alabama. None of the newcomers is as memorable as K.D. Lang.
She is country music's answer to Cyndi Lauper - colorful, charismatic and quirky, a strong and versatile vocalist with a taste for tearjerker ballads, rockabilly, blues, polkas, square dances, yodels, folk and rock 'n' roll. But no one is quite sure where Lang fits in country music.
"If you want to coin a phrase, my music is torch 'n' twang, which is somewhere in between what we saw as cowpunk and new traditionalist," said Lang, who will make her Twin Cities debut Sunday at First Avenue.
The only comparison in country music, Lang said, is "Minnie Pearl if she was a singer. I think the sense of humor plus the deep respect for the life style of the music was there. And I think I came from that sort of generation."
Although the 25-year-old Canadian would like to be accepted by members of the country community, she is savvy enough to know that her style is "not strictly...