Before the gold & platinum records, before the Grammy and Juno awards, and before building her worldwide legion of fans, there was A Truly Western Experience. Recorded for a small Canadian independent label, k.d. lang's debut album is easily the most band-oriented album lang and her combo the reclines would ever make and played to the sly side of lang's musical personality, as they switched gears from the manic rockabilly of "Bopalena" and the lively country two-step of "Hanky Panky" to the slinky, blues-influenced "Tickled Pink" & "Busy Being Blue" with assurance.