It's hard to think of another modern singer as naturally gifted as k.d. lang. She's as subtle and sensitive as many of today's vocalists are brassy and bombastic, so it's a mystery why she's released so little music of lasting quality. Her early retro/cowbilly and country records were a breath of fresh air in the newly rock-oriented Nashville of the late 1980s. Riding a serious Patsy Cline jones to stardom with Shadowlands (1988), the Canadian crooner crossed over with the '5...  [+]