kd lang and Ben Mink: how we made Constant Craving

‘It was the year I came out as gay. When we went to the Grammys, religious groups were picketing outside’We’d hired a little place in Vancouver to write songs. I’d been listening to Black Crow by Joni Mitchell and said to Ben, my songwriting partner: “Wouldn’t it be great if we could do a song with similar, flowing open chords?” I sat down with a little Casio keyboard and the music came quickly, but I struggled to write lyrics for months. Then one day I