Kathleen Edwards - Asking for Flowers
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Artist: Kathleen EdwardsBrand: Edwards
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-03-04
Music Label: Zoe Records
Soundtracks:
- Buffalo
- The Cheapest Key
- Asking for Flowers
- Alicia Ross
- I Make the Dough, You Get the Glory
- Oil Man's War
- Sure as Shit
- Run
- Oh Canada
- Scared at Night
- Goodnight, California
Free Music Notes for Asking for Flowers
Free Music Review: I guess I don't get it.
Hit: 3 Stars
I was given this cd by someone who thought I'd "love" it because I like Indigo Girls, Leonard Cohen, Cheryl Wheeler, and Richard Shindell. Prior to this, I'd never heard of Kathleen Edwards.
Frankly, I didn't find anything special here. I don't know anything about the artist, but these are the sort of songs I'd expect from a 20-something girl who hasn't gotten everything she wanted the way she wanted it -- maybe singing on open mike night at the trendy coffee shop down the road from her flat. The melodies are simplistic, repetitive, slightly hypnotic (but not in the good way). I suppose you could compare her vocally to Lucinda Williams. They both have that breathy, slightly flat, bored and a little depressed tone.
Maybe I'm not angry enough at men, at society, at life itself. Maybe I'm just not determined enough to be bitter, angry, depressed, and angsty. Whatever it is, I just don't get the appeal. I gave this cd a half dozen listens, thinking maybe it would grow on me or I'd at least understand why the person who gave it to me liked it. All it did was make me feel tired, bored, and irritable. I don't listen to music to be depressed. I'd give it three stars for the songs alone, but the artists voice just doesn't strike me as very good, so two stars it is.
Asking for Flowers Poster
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).
On her third album, Kathleen Edwards is poised reach the larger audiences she deserves. More striking on this new release is her stronger vocal and lyrical prowess which makes it apparent that she's in the zone of her craft. After proving her mettle on previous outings, she delivers with further conviction and confidence across songs suited for both quiet country roads and late night city bars. Her songs are often delivered with rough edges and heavy, somewhat smoky breath, yet nothing is overstated. As one of the latest great female voices to emerge on the Alt-Country scene, Kathleen Edwards stands tall next to other significant genre partners including Lucinda Williams, Gillian Welch, and Patty Griffin. In her lyrics she willingly reveals the ghosts in her closet, as well as her own self recriminations, at one point stating that, "Choosing my words carefully / has never been my strength / I've been known to be vague and often pointless." Maybe so, but the essence of her meaning and the tone of its delivery still resonates with lonely hearts and souls driving down life's dustier roads.
--Lucas Hilbert
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