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Music CD - Kathleen Edwards: Failer
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Music CD: Failer
Artist: Kathleen Edwards
List Price: $14.98
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Manufacturer: Zoe Records
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Tracks:
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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 Lil’ Duck
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0601143103520
Label: Zoe Records
Manufacturer: Zoe Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Zoe Records
Release Date: 2003-01-14
Studio: Zoe Records
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Summary: Old soul
Comment: 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.
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Summary: A little gem
Comment: Ever since Austin City Limits when I saw her for the 1st time, I've become a big fan since. Lovely voice and an equally beautful delivery in her songs.
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Summary: Just awesome
Comment: Her self titled album was fantastic, so I wasn't sure how this one would stack up, but it's just as good. She's an amazing musician.
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Summary: Evocative lyrics
Comment: Great Debut, from a somewhat new canadian singer-songwriter. Great roots rock with a bit of Ani Difranco thrown in for extra spice. The band on this CD is great also. Kathleen Edwards writes some deeply moving and evocative lyrics with a sophistication that goes far beyond her age. She seems to get compared to almost every other female singer in this genre, but she has her own sound and style for sure. Did I mention her beautiful but tough voice? She is one great storyteller, and I think a bright future awaits her. The best songs on this album are: "Six Ock News", "The Lone Wolf", "Mercury" and "Maria". I am looking forward to seeing and hearing more from here in the future.
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Summary: A classic - its entered my all-time favorite list!
Comment: I bought this CD a few years ago, and have never gone more than a few weeks without going back to it. The sophistication of the stories/lyrics in the songs amazes me for an artist who was so young when she made this record. I recently saw Kathleen in concert and she talked about my favorite track on the album, "Westby", joking that her mother worries if the story is true. Years ago Kathleen was interviewed on the Tom Dunne Show (todayfm.ie) and she said she was once obsessed by Whiskeytown's "Houses on the Hill". I think I have a similar obsession with "Westby". This album will definitely be on lists of "Best Debut Albums" in the future.
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Editorial Reviews:
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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 McLeese
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