Shadowland (k.d. lang album)

Shadowland
Shadowland
Studio album by k.d. lang
Released	1988
Studio	Bradley's Barn, Mount Juliet, Tennessee
Genre	Country, pop
Length	35:17
Label	Sire, Warner Bros.
Producer	Owen Bradley
k.d. lang chronology

Shadowland is the debut solo album by k.d. lang, released in 1988 (see 1988 in music). The album included her collaboration with Kitty Wells, Loretta Lynn and Brenda Lee on "Honky Tonk Angels' Medley" and was produced by Owen Bradley, who produced Patsy Cline's best-known work.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Los Angeles Times	^[2]
Record Mirror	4+1⁄2/5^[3]
Rolling Stone	^[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[5]
The Village Voice	B^[6]

Track listing

"Western Stars" (Chris Isaak) - 3:12
"Lock, Stock and Teardrops" (Roger Miller) – 3:28
"Sugar Moon" (Cindy Walker, Bob Wills) – 2:26
"I Wish I Didn't Love You So" (Frank Loesser) – 3:07
"(Waltz Me) Once Again Around the Dance Floor" (Don Goodman, Sara Johns, Jack Rowland) – 2:35
"Black Coffee" (Sonny Burke, Paul Francis Webster) – 3:17

"Shadowland" (Dick Hyman, Charles Tobias) – 2:28
"Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes" (Slim Willet) – 2:20
"Tears Don't Care Who Cries Them" (Fred Tobias, Charles Tobias) – 3:03
"I'm Down to My Last Cigarette" (Harlan Howard, Billy Walker) – 2:46
"Busy Being Blue" (Stewart MacDougall) – 3:40
"Honky Tonk Angels' Medley" – 2:55
- "In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)" (Leroy Carr, Don Raye)
- "You Nearly Lose Your Mind" (Ernest Tubb)
- "Blues Stay Away from Me" (Alton Delmore, Rabon Delmore, Wayne Raney, Henry Glover)

k.d.lang - vocals
Harold Bradley - banjo, bass, ukulele, gut string guitar
Jimmy Capps - rhythm guitar
Buddy Emmons - pedal steel guitar
Greg Leisz - lap steel guitar
Tony Migliore - piano, accordion
Roger Morris - piano
Hargus "Pig" Robbins - piano
Hal Rugg - pedal steel guitar
Buddy Spicher - fiddle
Henry Strzelecki - bass
Pete Wade - electric guitar
Rob Hajacos - fiddle
Buddy Harman - drums
Jim Horn - saxophone
The Nashville String Machine
- Bill McElhiney - arrangements
- David Angell - violin
- Roy Christensen - cello
- Connie Ellisor - violin
- Ted Madsen - violin
- Bob Mason - cello
- Pamela Sixfin - violin
- Carl Gorodetzky - violin
- Dennis Molchan - violin
- George Binkley III - violin
- John Borg - viola
- Gary VanOsdale - viola
- Anthony LaMarchina - cello
- Lee Larrison - violin
The Jordanaires - vocals on "Western Stars", "I Wish I Didn't Love You So" & "Tears Don't Care Who Cries Them"
- Gordon Stoker
- Louis Dean Nunley
- Neal Matthews, Jr.
- Duane West
Tennessee - vocals on "Lock, Stock and Teardrops", "Sugar Moon", "Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes" & "I'm Down to My Last Cigarette"
- Hurshel Wiginton
- Doug Clements
- Louis Dean Nunley
- Jim Ferguson
The Honky Tonk Angels - vocals on "Honky Tonk Angels' Medley"

Chart (1988)	Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[10]	32
Chart (1990)	Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[11]	67


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)^[12]	Gold	35,000^{^}
Canada (Music Canada)^[13]	Platinum	100,000^{^}
United States (RIAA)^[14]	Gold	500,000^{^}
^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.