Absolute Torch and Twang
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Absolute Torch and Twang is the third album by k.d. lang and the Reclines, released in 1989.

Track listing

  1. "Luck in My Eyes" (lang, Mink) – 4:10
  2. "Three Days" (Willie Nelson
    Willie Nelson
    Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...

    ) – 3:17
  3. "Trail of Broken Hearts" (lang, Mink) – 3:24
  4. "Big Boned Gal" (lang, Mink) – 3:08
  5. "Didn't I" (lang, Mink) – 3:39
  6. "Wallflower Waltz" (lang, Mink) – 4:22
  7. "Full Moon Full of Love
    Full Moon Full of Love
    "Full Moon Full of Love" is a single by Canadian country music artist k.d. lang. Released in 1989, it was the first single from lang's album Absolute Torch and Twang. The song reached #1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in September 1989 and #22 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.-Chart...

    " (Preston, Smith) – 2:49
  8. "Pullin' Back the Reins" (lang, Mink) – 4:23
  9. "Big Big Love" (Carroll, Stewart) – 2:29
  10. "It's Me" (lang, Mink) – 2:20
  11. "Walkin' in and Out of Your Arms" (lang, Mink) – 3:03
  12. "Nowhere to Stand" (lang) – 4:27

Personnel

  • k.d. lang
    K.D. Lang
    Kathryn Dawn Lang, OC , known by her stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress...

     – acoustic guitar, guitar
    Guitar
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    , vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

  • Graham Boyle – percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

    , tambourine
    Tambourine
    The tambourine or marine is a musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head at all....

    , claves
    Claves
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    , spoons
    Spoons
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  • Michael Creber – piano
    Piano
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  • John Dymond – bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • The Five Blind Boys of Alabama – background vocals, voices
  • Greg Leisz
    Greg Leisz
    Greg Leisz is an American multi-instrumentalist, playing lap and pedal steel guitars, guitar, mandolin, and bass.- Biography :Leisz was influenced early on by the Byrds and Flying Burrito Brothers, especially pedal steel player "Sneaky" Pete Kleinow...

     – steel guitar
    Steel guitar
    Steel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument. Developed in Hawaii in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a steel guitar is usually positioned horizontally; strings are plucked with one hand, while the other hand changes the pitch of one or more strings with the use...

    , slide guitar
    Slide guitar
    Slide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. The term slide refers to the motion of the slide against the strings, while bottleneck refers to the original material of choice for such slides: the necks of glass bottles...

  • Gordie Matthews – acoustic guitar, guitar, electric guitar
    Electric guitar
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  • Ben Mink
    Ben Mink
    Ben Mink is a Canadian songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer.Born of Polish parents, Mink was raised in Toronto Ontario. He got his start performing with the rock/country group Mary-Lou Horner, which became the house band at bar and nightclub....

     – organ
    Organ (music)
    The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...

    , acoustic guitar, guitar, mandolin
    Mandolin
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    , strings, violin
    Violin
    The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

    , electric guitar, mandola
    Mandola
    The mandola or tenor mandola is a fretted, stringed musical instrument. It is to the mandolin what the viola is to the violin: the four double courses of strings tuned in fifths to the same pitches as the viola , a fifth lower than a mandolin...

    , bowed bass
  • David Piltch – fretless bass, bowed bass
  • Michel Pouliot – drums
    Drum kit
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  • Ed Thigpen – drums

Album

Chart (1989) Peak
position
Canadian RPM Country Albums 8
Canadian RPM Top Albums 29
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 12
U.S. Billboard 200 69

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions
CAN Country
RPM (magazine)
RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,...

CAN
RPM (magazine)
RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,...

US Country
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

1989 "Full Moon Full of Love" 1 22
"Three Days" 9 55
1990 "Luck in My Eyes" 10
"Big Boned Gal" 23
"Pulling Back the Reins"
"Trail of Broken Hearts" 87

Awards

Grammy Awards
Year Winner Category
1989 Absolute Torch and Twang Best Female Country Vocal Performance
Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance was first awarded in 1965, to Dottie West. The award has had several minor name changes:*From 1965 to 1967 the award was known as Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Female...

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