Kathleen Edwards - Failer
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Artist: Kathleen EdwardsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-01-14
Music Label: Zoe Records
Soundtracks:
- Six O?Clock News
- One More Song the Radio Won?t Like
- Hockey Skates
- The Lone Wolf
- 12 Bellevue
- Mercury
- Westby
- Maria
- National Steel
- Sweet Lil? Duck
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Free Music Review: Old soul
Hit: 5 Stars
I have been torn for years about how much I enjoy this record.
If I was a lot younger I would even like it more. It takes me back to the kind of emotional songwriting and renditions of the early to mid seventies singer songwriter era. It is a bit more sexually explicit, and I find myself not wanting to share it with my teen age kids, as many of the messages are about sex and drugs, so feel a bit hypocritical, to like it at all, but there you go.
I have shared this a bit with my older kids, but my oldest in particular, is an amazing soprano, and just doesn't see any appeal in the kind of voice that Ms. Edwards has, with the exception on the "Back To Me" albums title cut, which got a wry grin out of her from the line "I got ways to make you run, My Daddy's comin' for you." But that is another CD.
Failer has some great song writing and believably genuine performances most about the afore mentioned sex and drugs, but ones that many might be able to relate to, thankfully , not me, but as a story teller, Edwards is phenomenal. Westby, the story of a May December affair, is particularly poignant. The despair in Mercury comes through strongly as well by way of examples.
If you are a fan of Singer Songwriter style music, and you aren't easily offended by subject matter, you should really like this album.
Failer Poster
This young Canadian singer-songwriter delivers a sucker punch of an American debut. While it may take a few listens for some of the material to sink in, Kathleen Edwards plainly has attitude to burn and a killer band to back it up. As a rootsy artist who sings about sexual attraction and betrayal with a languid breathiness, she inevitably has been tagged a younger Lucinda Williams, but it would make as much sense to describe her as an alt-country Ani DiFranco or a female Ryan Adams. What's most powerful in her music, however, seems to come from a deeper, more personal place than the study of other artists: from the violent climax of "Six O' Clock News" to the bitter resignation of "Hockey Skates" to the buoyantly rocking resilience of "12 Bellevue" to the offhand sensuality of "Westby." Plainly, she's unconcerned with ruffling feathers, titling one number "One More Song the Radio Won't Like" and elsewhere asking the musical question "Do you think your boys' club will crumble just because of a loudmouth girl?" --Don McLeeseCountry Music CDs
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