I was broke at the time, so I'd find things at Value Village or get my mom to make me a skirt from the curtains she was about to throw out. She would later recall the inspiration for her defining look in an interview with The Canadian Press: "I used to sew plastic cowboys and Indians on my clothes – just having fun with it on a budget.
She was called a "Canadian Cowpunk" in the Jissue of Rolling Stone.
Singing at country and western venues in Canada, lang began to establish an appearance and style referred to as "cowboy punk". In August 1984, lang was one of three Canadian artists to be selected to perform at the World Science Fair in Tsukuba, Japan (along with other performing and recording contracts throughout Japan). A Truly Western Experience was released in 1984 and received strong reviews and led to national attention in Canada. In 1983, lang presented a performance-art piece, a seven-hour re-enactment of the transplantation of an artificial heart for Barney Clark, a retired American dentist. The Reclines regularly played Edmonton's popular Sidetrack Cafe, a local venue that featured live bands six nights a week. The first band featured Stu Macdougal on keys, Dave Bjarnson on drums, Gary Koligar on guitar and bassist Farley Scott. Label owner Larry Wanagas became her personal manager. She and the Reclines recorded their debut single, "Friday Dance Promenade", at Sundown Recorders. She moved to Edmonton after her graduation in 1982 and formed a Patsy Cline tribute band called the Reclines in 1983.
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Īfter secondary school, lang attended Red Deer College, where she became fascinated with the life and music of Patsy Cline and decided to pursue a career as a professional singer. Her father, a drugstore owner, left the family when she was twelve. When lang was nine months old, her family moved to Consort, Alberta, where she grew up with two older sisters and one older brother on the Canadian prairie. She is of English, Irish, Scottish, German, Russian-Jewish, Icelandic, and Sioux ancestry. Lang was born in Edmonton, Alberta, the youngest child of Audrey Bebee and Adam Frederick Lang.
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