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Early Days When Cowboys Found KD Lang A Bit Too Strange

Kathryn Dawn Lang, OC wasn't always the perfect singer and the toast of Music City. In fact, in her backyard in early days she was a force to reckon with, and some of the forces she had to reckon with weren't warm to her punked-up hillbilly persona. Ross Perlmutter explains.

Early Days When Cowboys Found KD Lang A Bit Too Strange

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“I have a very special board tape of kd getting fired, by the crowd, onstage at the Ranchman’s in Calgary.

The short story is that Neil McGonnigal and I booked her into the Ranchman’s for her Calgary debut. The place was packed with cowboys and local music people, and the first set went swimmingly. Halfway through the second set, some drunk cowboys thought: ‘Hey, waitaminute. This woman is a gawdamn punk rocker, and she’s making fun of our music!’ And they approached the stage. On the tape, you can clearly hear them say ‘you have to leave!’, and kd responds by saying ‘OK, we’ll just finish this set...’

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‘No, NOW!’

“Kd apologized with an ‘OK, buckaroos and buckarettes’ and that was it. We pulled her from the Ranchman’s and booked her right next door at another club called Longhorns, and that was the start of her rise to fame. That tape remains one of my most prized possessions.”

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New & Upcoming Album Releases: Jazz Veteran Holly Cole, Montreal Duo Sarah Pagé & Patrick Graham, & More

This week also brings new releases from Morgan Toney, Lou-Adrian Cassidy, new announcements from cleopatrick and more. Find it all on our calendar of upcoming albums..

There's a new slate of new Canadian music releases out this week, and we're adding them to our ongoing calendar of new and upcoming albums.

Prominent artists with new releases out this week include the adventurous Montreal duo of Sarah Pagé and Patrick Graham, veteran jazz stylist Holly Cole, acclaimed Juno-nominated singer-songwriter Tariq, Ottawa-based blues-rock combo Murray Kinsley & Wicked Grin and Quebec singer-songwriter Lou-Adriane Cassidy(a SOCAN Songwriting Prize nominee).

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