Drag
A covers album built around smoking, from Don't Smoke in Bed to The Joker.
k.d. lang, 1997
- Released
- 10 June 1997
- Label
- Warner Bros.
- Producer
- k.d. lang and Craig Street
- Length
- 52:26
Most of its songs share a smoking motif, though some deal more broadly with dependence or addiction. Lang and Craig Street produced it, Danny Kopelson engineered it and Jimmie Haskell wrote the orchestration. Her version of the Valley of the Dolls theme, a Dionne Warwick song, was used in the pilot and the series finale of the Showtime series Nurse Jackie, and Jane Siberry's Hain't It Funny? appeared in the 2002 film Talk to Her. Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the heart of the album combined mainstream pop accessibility and torch-driven cabaret intimacy.
Track listing
- Don't Smoke in Bed3:22
- The Air That I Breathe5:58
- Smoke Dreams3:49
- My Last Cigarette4:09
- The Joker4:44
- Theme from the Valley of the Dolls3:02
- Your Smoke Screen2:29
- My Old Addiction6:39
- Till the Heart Caves In3:30
- Smoke Rings3:36
- Hain't It Funny?6:23
- Love Is Like a Cigarette4:45
Personnel
- k.d. lang vocals
- Teddy Borowiecki piano, accordion, keyboard
- Kevin Breit banjo, guitar
- Kimberly Brewer background vocals
- Jimmie Haskell orchestration
- Danny Kopelson engineer
More from k.d. lang
Shadowland (1988), Absolute Torch and Twang (1989), Ingénue (1992), Hymns of the 49th Parallel (2004)
Sources
- Drag (k.d. lang album), Wikipedia