Ben Mink

A longtime staple from the Canadian music picture, manufacturer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Ben Mink afterwards enjoyed considerable success through his affiliation with singer k.d. lang. Delivered in Toronto in 1951, he became a member of the folk group Stringband being a fiddler in 1973, afterwards playing on the hit “Dief Would be the Key.” In 1978, Mink became a member of the progressive rock-band FM, appearing on the Direct to Drive album and staying using the group until 1984; he also guested on Rush’s Indicators record. While touring Japan in 1985 using the Quebec-based group Cano, Mink initial met lang, finding a mutual love for the traditional nation music of performers including Patsy Cline and Buck Owens. Some a few months afterwards, he delivered her a demonstration of his tune “Convert Me Circular,” which became a staple of lang’s stage action; when she dismissed manufacturer Dave Edmunds from periods on her behalf 1987 debut Angel using a Lariat, Mink was earned to assume creation chores, along the way also getting lang’s songwriting partner. They reunited for 1989’s Overall Torch and Twang, credit scoring a Grammy nomination for the tune “Luck in my own Eyes”; nevertheless, lang’s true industrial discovery was 1992’s Ingenue, which released the crossover strike “Regular Craving.” Following that, Mink once again teamed with lang in the soundtrack to 1993’s Also Cowgirls Obtain the Blues before shifting to create Barenaked Women’ PERHAPS YOU Should Drive. lang’s WHATEVER YOU Can Eat adopted in 1995.