Mind Over Body

October, 1987

I love working places where the audience gets sprayed wit your sweat when you spin around," says Canada's kineti and kookie K. D. Lang, 24, who is revamping country music in an edgy, offbeat style she calls torch V twang. "Twang is a part of country that's starting to happen again," she says, "and I love the country torch singers, like Patsy Cline." Lang's major-label debut, Angel with a Lariat (Sire), displays both vocal prowess and unusual wit. "Humor and realism...