I missed this one at the time, probably thinking that country music wasn’t for me. Past me was an idiot. This really is a gorgeous album, with a stunning vocal performance and restrained musical backing with just a hint of pedal steel and fiddle to nudge it into the vicinity of country music.
What really makes this stand out is that it’s pretty clear that this is country music with a queer perspective. Shortly after this album was released k.d.lang came out a lesbian, leading to it being banned by various American Country music stations as well as protests at the 1993 Grammy awards. They were idiots too.
https://album.link/gb/i/1242541804
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