"When we set up the recording session, I had a really good feeling," said lang. And drummer/percussionist Fred Eltringham of the Wallflowers fame was a colleague of Clarke.
Bassist Lex Price knew Pisapia from Nashville. Lang had already worked with keyboardist Daniel Clarke and Joshua Grange, who plays baritone guitar and dobro.
The rest of Siss Boom Bang came together just as organically. "We wrote two songs that first day, which was 'Perfect Word' and 'The Water's Edge, so it was just 'Go' from day one and it's just a beautiful chemistry," the Edmonton-born lang recalled from Los Angeles, where she now lives. She and Pisapia - a New Jersey native who was in the acoustic-pop band Guster - "clicked instantly," she said, and after her tour she flew down to his Nashville studio to collaborate with him. The new project began when lang met multi-instrumentalist Joe Pisapia through Canadian sound engineer Gordon Reddy during a tour for her last studio album, 2008's "Watershed." "Sing It Loud" is lang's first record made entirely with a band of her own since she launched her illustrious career 20 years ago with the Reclines, a Patsy Cline tribute band. "Because to me it was about fireworks and it was about explosiveness and spontaneity and just the excitement of it." and then siss, boom, bang - the band kicks in,"' and I went: 'Oh my god, that's the name of the band,'" lang said in a recent phone interview.
she goes: 'Yeah, it started off like a k.d. "When I played the record for my friend after we had finished recording it. It represents the blast they had making their new album, "Sing It Loud" (out Tuesday), which was recorded over three days during the July 4 weekend in Nashville last year. lang and the Siss Boom Bang may have a nice ring to it, but the Canadian songstress says the title of her new alt-country band is more than just a clever rhyme.
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