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Kathleen Edwards - Asking for Flowers Audio CD

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Kathleen Edwards Band: Kathleen Edwards
Title: Asking for Flowers
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Release Date: 2008-03-04
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Buffalo 2: The Cheapest Key 3: Asking for Flowers 4: Alicia Ross 5: I Make the Dough, You Get the Glory 6: Oil Man's War 7: Sure as Shit 8: Run 9: Oh Canada 10: Scared at Night 11: Goodnight, California

I guess I don't get it.
Prior to this, I'd never heard of Kathleen Edwards. 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.

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.
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Beautifully written and produced
Her songs are beautifully written, and this album is especially well produced. It's hard not to love Kathleen Edwards. Lush is the word that keeps coming to mind. The tube driven sound is full and real. Listening to this album puts others to shame. Great, great songs, amazing sound.


Exceptionally Brilliant Album
One word: wow!

Not only is she a pretty good singer, but the songwriting on this album is everything it should be: fresh, wry, tender, clever (without being pretentious. I'd completely passed Ms Edwards' first two albums by, but took a chance on this one, based on Amazon reviews. ) I immediately rushed out to buy her other two albums. And they're every bit as good.

Prior reviewers have done a proper job here, so I won't go into deconstructionist mode. But the clear debts to Neil Young and Tom Petty do not detract from this album in the least. She's working an original vein of thought in the style of proven successful bands, and doing it damn well. The standard of production is very high, without sounding like the usual glazed-over sessioneer hackwork.

My advice: Press Add To Cart. You'll be pleased you did.


an amazing album
A true "album," that holds together when listened to straight through, that succeeds as a whole. Kathleen Edwards is a great songwriter, and this album is her best to date. "Asking For Flowers" and "Oil Man's War" are my favorite cuts, and having heard her sing the devastating "Alicia Ross" live a couple of times was glad to see it included here. But from the early imagery contained in the first song's asking "have you ever seen lightning in snow?" to the haunting "Goodnight, California," this is a memorable record.


Just buy it already
If you already have her other works, grab this one, probably her best of the three. Short and sweet review.

If you don't have any of her previous, buy this one and the others as well.

There have been times I have listened to this 2 times in a row. I never bounce around and cherry-pick any of the tracks, I play it start to finish. No too much music out there today that I can do that with.

FWIW, just buy it already!.


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