HYMNS OF THE 49TH PARALLEL
K.D. Lang
(Nonesuch/Warner)
Looks like k.d. is feeling a little homesick these days. At least in the musical sense.
Hymns of the 49th Parallel finds the ex-pat crooner reaffirming her roots by delivering sophisticated, orchestrated covers of a slew of CanCon classics: Neil Young's After the Gold Rush and Helpless, Leonard Cohen's Bird on a Wire and Hallelujah, Joni Mitchell's Case of You and Jericho.
Toss in Ron Sexsmith's Fallen for a nod to the kids and k.d.'s own Simple, and you've got a disc so swelled with true patriot love you should be able to buy it with Canadian Tire money, eh?
Track Listing
1. After the Gold Rush (Young)
2. Simple (lang/Piltch)
3. Helpless (Young)
4. A Case of You (Mitchell)
5. The Valley (Siberry)
6. Hallelujah (Cohen)
7. One Day I Walk (Cockburn)
8. Fallen (Sexsmith)
9. Jericho (Mitchell)
10. Bird on a Wire (Cohen)
11. Love Is Everything (Siberry)
