Kathleen Edwards est de cette race de folk-rockeuses qui doivent beaucoup à Lucinda Williams et son Car Wheels On A Gravel Road. Non pas que Asking For Flowers, le 3ème album de la Canadienne, atteigne les sommets de ce chef d'oeuvre. Mais c'est néanmoins un excellent objet country-rock à la Crazy Horse, agréable et varié, superbement écrit et produit. Edwards surprend d'emblée avec Buffalo, qui
The easy-yet-earnest melodies of Asking For Flowers are just about perfect. Ranging from uptempo rootsy rockers to softly fingerpicked folksy acoustic numbers, these songs demonstrate just how fucking (seriously, it can be OK to swear sometimes) great Kathleen Edwards really is. Sounding something like Whiskeytown vs. Miranda Lambert vs. Uncle Tupelo, Edwards' songs are filled with slide guitars, some pedal steel, harmonica, and all your standard alt-country trimmings, but it's her vocals that take center stage. It is sincere but a bit dusty and subtly caustic; imperfect but perfect for [...]
It's a rare and truly uplifting thing to take a chance on a show when you've heard just a couple songs of a band and read just a bit about their reputation and be completely blown away. Catfish Vegas, meet Kathleen Edwards. Since roots rock has always been some of my favorite stuff, it's no surprise that I came away so impressed. I kept coming back to one particular comparison for Edwards'
This is shaping up to be a great late spring for live music in Tucson. Even just at the Rialto Theatre there's a string of shows as good as any I can remember: Calexico, Cowboy Junkies, X, Rancid, the RZA, Drive-By Truckers, Steve Earle & Allison Moorer and Mike Ness, just through the end of June. How's that for variety? And over at Club Congress we've got Kathleen Edwards, Von Bondies, the
Kathleen Edwards: The Cheapest Key [ purchase ] Over her short career, Kathleen Edwards seems to have amassed quite a arsenal towards ex-lovers and could possibly be labeled the "queen of the kiss-off". Her latest collection, Asking For Flowers [...]
I love Kathleen Edwards . I have been wanting to review here latest, Asking For Flowers , for quite some time now. Seeing Kathleen grace the cover of the Canadian music essential publication Exclaim! this month finally got me off my ass. Kathleen is an Ontario based Canadian singer/songwriter. Compared to other singer/songwriters, there is something about Kathleen that really makes her stand out . She isn't as alternative as Basia Bulat , not at country as <a href=" www.christinefellows.com">Chri stine Fellows and not as poppy as Sarah [...]
Atmosphere "Like The Rest Of Us" - With this song, Atmosphere begin their new album with a gentle shrug of resignation. It's not bitter, angry, or depressed -- if anything, "Like The Rest Of Us" is about the peace that comes with realizing that you can't save a world that doesn't want to change and that "you've got to let people be hypocrites." It's also about the comfort of stasis, the up side of inertia, and figuring out how to adjust youthful idealism into adult pragmatism. It's not a song without hope; it's just a song [...]
Canadian singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards' debut, 2003's Failer, made our top ten list of that year. Five years and three albums later, Edwards, on tour in support of her new album Asking For Flowers, sat down with AD to discuss the new album, and what she's been up to since '05s Back To Me. * * [...]
This is over a week late, but I've been pretty busy with work and school. That being said, there's been some really good bands that've released some really good songs in March. Here's the best of them: I Will Follow You Into the Dark (Death Cab for Cutie) - A Fine Frenzy - I saw this one performed life at the Iron Horse recently - one of the best covers that I've seen of this song. [...]
Hat tip to The Drunkard for originally bringing this collection to my attention and sharing it with the unfortunate many that couldn't get their hands on one of the original 500 pressings. Building 55 was released in 1999, providing the first incarnation of the Kathleen Edwards sound we've come to love here at Muzzle of Bees. So smitten with her entire catalog, including the recently released gem, Asking For Flowers , I am well aware of the honor that it is to [...]
Kathleen Edwards' song writing ability grows with every release. While her latest, Asking for Flowers , still highlights her ability to mix rootsy hooks with her playful wit, more importantly, it shows how consistent she has become. On the first couple of listens I foolishly thought that Asking for Flowers failed to reach the high peaks of her previous releases, but in reality, it's the simple fact that the record never stumbles that made me think that. Instead of some standout tracks and some middle of the road number, Edwards has written a record that sounds great from [...]
Every year I say I'm going to buy my SXSW badge in September and make the trek to Austin . I never do it. Maybe that will change this year…or not. With that in mind, I'm still here in (not so) sunny Southern California blogging about a rather eclectic mix of new and old tunes. Hoping to get out next Friday to the Orange County Museum of Art to see the Broken West . [...]
asking for flowers , kathleen edwards 's new album, is out. i can't offer you any salient opinions, because i haven't heard the whole thing yet, but we can, i think, at this point, take it as given that it will be excellent. or, really, you should just listen to some of it and decide for yourself. cause what do i know anyway, right? i would like to take a second to point out one track of note first, though, before you run off to experience the world for yourself. the track is called "sure [...]
Need to train for the comeback fight of your life? Trying to recuperate from a debilitating accident? Want some added motivation for getting out of bed and into the shower in the morning? Well look no further than Triumph!: A podcast , our seventh, which we hope you'll find as inspiring as the Frank Stallone lyrics contained within. As with all of our podcasts, you can download the songs ala carte until they expire... Need to train for the comeback fight of your life? Trying [...]
The Deal sisters are back with a new LP. The Breeders ' "Mountain Battles" is due on April 7 from 4AD . It's their first since '02 and if the first single, "Bang On", is any indication - a stylistic departure. They come at you with a fuzzy, hip-hop bass beat and Pixies-esque vocals. A must. Pre-order "Mountain Battles" from 4AD or Amazon . MP3: The Breeders - "Bang On" Jim Noir 's 2005 debut "Tower of Love" featured deviously catchy [...]
kathleen edwards " asking for flowers " label: zoe release date: 3/4/08 alt-country's most underrated female singer/songwriter. go buy this album. mp3 | kathleen edwards - sure as shit
Photo by Joe Fuda Not everything noteworthy in Canadian music is happening this week . Indeed, fans of Cancon-qualifying music should have next week circled on their calendar as it marks a week full of Forest City Lovers -ing. Tuesday marks the release of their sophomore album Haunting Moon Sinking though it's also a debut, in a sense, as it's the first to feature the Forest City Lovers as a full band rather than a project led by singer/songwriter Kat Burns and friends as was found on [...]
You might be surprised to find radio popstar darling KT Tunstall on a blog devoted to exploring the boundaries and possibilities of folk. Thanks to our shufflesong culture, many people never truly explore the work of artists like Tunstall beyond chart-toppers like Hold On and Suddenly I See , to name but two beat-heavy guilty pleasures of mine which have infiltrated every inch of our sonic culture. But I've long had this Grammy nominee's sweet, simple Under The Weather , with its thick, mellow guitarstrum and longing, [...]
If you somehow manage to avoid the sophomore slump in music, all eyes immediately shift to see if there's the junior jinx. Kathleen Edwards avoided that slump by creating a more nuanced and textured version of her debut with Back to Me in 2005, but you can only reshuffle the same deck so many times. [...]
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