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Kathleen Edwards - Failer Audio CD

A fair review of the Kathleen Edwards "Failer" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Kathleen Edwards reviews here, or go back to the Kathleen Edwards tabs.

Kathleen Edwards Band: Kathleen Edwards
Title: Failer
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Release Date: 2007-01-08
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Six O'Clock News 2: One More Song The Radio Won't Like 3: Hockey Skates 4: The Lone Wolf 5: 12 Bellevue 6: Mercury 7: Westby 8: Maria 9: National Steel 10: Sweet Little Duck

kathleen edwards-failer
Full of indie cred. Great twangy rock with a folk element. Great lyrics,voice, and band that rocks.


Pure melodic and lyrical genius
Not one song on this album is anything but strong, emotional, with excellent melodic hooks, memorable tunes, and lyrics that can make you cry, laugh or slap you in the face. Kathleen Edwards is the best songwriter I have heard since I lamented the demise of the Beatles over 30 years ago.

The band's arrangements have a good touch of electric edge, too. No whiney, plinking, dull "woe is me" playing here. A good number of these songs really rock, without getting in the way of her sheer poetry.

The recording quality is overcompressed, mid-rangey, and almost metallic sounding, which is too bad. But I can forgive that because the important stuff, the MUSIC, is so darn good.

I hate to try to put her in a "box", but if you are wondering who she sounds like, I think of her as a female Neil Young, except she can sing a whole lot better and her songs are much less droning, much more musical. Her style fits in well with the likes of Tift Merritt, some of Sarah Harmer, and even Melissa Etheridge.

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Old soul


If I was a lot younger I would even like it more. I have been torn for years about how much I enjoy this record. 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.
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A little gem
Lovely voice and an equally beautful delivery in her songs. Ever since Austin City Limits when I saw her for the 1st time, I've become a big fan since.


Just awesome
She's an amazing musician. Her self titled album was fantastic, so I wasn't sure how this one would stack up, but it's just as good.


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