7.6 on Pitchfork. "Back To Me is the second album from this 26 year-old Ottawa born singer/songwriter. Her first album Failer caused quite a rumpus and led to her opening for the likes of Bob Dylan and The Stones. 200 live dates and two years down the line, she's back in the studio, keen as mustard and not a little jaded. Ms Edwards is a talented songwriter with a voice to match. She surely hits the spot with "Away", summing up the record's theme of yearning for home and absent friends. On "In State" she g   [ read more ]

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Kathleen Edwards' Asking for Flowers is her first new album in three years, and the acclaimed artist's most penetrating collection to date. The album features eleven new songs, all written by Edwards, and finds her performing at the peak of her creative powers, supported by a group of master backing musicians. Flowers tells indelible, clear-eyed stories of hope and resignation, humor and death, unconditional love and brazen inequality. Co-produced by Edwards and Jim Scott (Tom Petty, Whiskeyto   [ read more ]

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Teeming with roots and with alternative country oozing from every note, Kathleen Edwards could easily be compared to fellow Canadian Sarah Harmer, but there is a natural difference in their approaches. With songs such as "One More Song the Radio Won't Like," the singer tends to stand outside the conventional box, but her voice easily recalls Lucinda Williams at her most vulnerable. "I'm so tired of playing defense/And I don't even have hockey skates," she sings during "Hockey Skates," whic   [ read more ]

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