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Kathleen Edwards
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Out of 23 votes - Similar Artists: Lucinda Williams, Neil Young, Ryan Adams, Tift Merritt
Out of 23 votes
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- Location: United States
- Genre: Country » Singer-Songwriter
Editor's review
Never mind whether it's a gutsy road song or a dark-corner ballad, Canadian singer-songwriter Edwards's latest cuts deep and isn't afraid to leave scars. The music's up-front honest and a touch scrappy, but don't mistake these songs for simple: a complex human story lies behind the title track's alt-country despair, for instance, which only repeated listens might unlock. Finely honed with a crack team of players (among them Benmont Tench and Greg Leisz), song fans, alt or otherwise, will find plenty here to embrace.
Biography
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, Whiskeytown), the album features, among others, keyboardist Benmont Tench from The Heartbreakers, drummer Don Heffington (Bob Dylan, The Wallflowers), bassist Bob Glaub (Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon, Leonard Cohen), guitarist Colin Cripps (Sarah McLachlan, Bryan Adams), and pedal steel ace Greg Leisz (Sheryl Crow, Wilco, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss).
