Music CD - Kathleen Edwards: Asking for Flowers

	Music CD: Asking for Flowers Artist: Kathleen Edwards List Price: $17.98 Our Price: $11.93 Your Save: $ 6.05 ( 34% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Zoe Records
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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
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0601143111525 Label: Zoe Records Manufacturer: Zoe Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Zoe Records Release Date: 2008-03-04 Studio: Zoe Records
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Not as good as the first one.. Comment: I played this one once and have not returned to it. It's no "Failer" for sure, but I do like the title track. Guess I'll have to play the whole CD again, but I usually find that if a record doesn't take grab me the first time it won't on future spins. Customer Rating: Summary: Maturing writer. Comment: In Ms. Edwards newest CD Asking for Flowers, she shows an interestingly matured viewpoint from earlier outings. The innuendo is more subdued and the anxiety she expresses might be coming for a husband who feels unappreciated, more than a woman not quite 30. The title song is one easily changed to come over that waywith the addition of one word, "Asking[me]for flowers is like [me] asking you to be nice. Don't tell me you're too tired, for ten years I've been working nights", as is "I make the Dough, you get the Glory". Although there are bits of wry humor in songs like "Cheapest Key", in general, this is another great CD guaranteed in the words of Neil Young "To bring you right down" (referring to his song "Don't let it bring you down") but I enjoy a sad kind of album from time to time, and Ms. Edwards makes sad beautiful. Customer Rating: Summary: Very very good Comment: This is a great album, a little lower key than previous, but very good in it's own right. If this is the first you've heard of Kathleen Edwards, check out her older albums, they're all great. Customer Rating: Summary: Asking for Kathleen Comment: Kathleen just keeps getting better as a songwriter and she is clearly heads and shoulders above the others who recruit the best studio musicians to commercially package into their songs for the eyes of the music industry. But still she does this. She'll either grow out of it or well, start sounding like Sheryl Crow. Hopefully this won't happen. Her music is tinged with something special and just doesn't need perfect melodies or VH1 clarity or alt-country pedals and such. This is a very pretty and precise album but falls a tad short of Back to Me. This might have to do with the less personal nature of the lyrics or the high-quality musicians, hell, I don't know, I just listen. But she's still knows how to write a song. Even though this album might be a transitional one for her. We'll just see next time. Customer Rating: Summary: I will gladly wait for three years for Kathleen's next release. Comment: To this day, "Failure" is constantly in my playlist rotation, "Back to Me" has grown on me, and now another fine recording from Kathleen Edwards. I worried that she had given us her all, but my fears were unfounded. Thanks Kathleen. Also, if you ever have the opportunity to see Kathleen Edwards live, do not miss her show. Dynamic, fun, and incredible musicianship from all of the band. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: After a three-year hiatus to catch up on life in her native Ontario, Kathleen Edwards has done nothing to separate herself from the small pool of North America's fast-rising songwriters, in which she is a deeply immersed member. Her third album continues her clear-minded, open-hearted lyricism, though with a ripeness that comes from years on the road and years more to reflect. Edwards remains in a tug-of-war with matters of the heart, and she's not afraid slyly to nudge the opposite side. "I'm a Ford Tempo (and) you're my Maserati," she sings in "I Make the Dough, You Get the Glory." It's a get-lost love song similar in tone to "The Cheapest Key," which finds the storyteller alphabetizing her romantic tribulations. Even the gorgeous melody of the title song is offset by the concession that a simple bouquet is not too much to ask in return. As the record's co-producer, Edwards has assembled a cracker-jack studio band (led by Heartbreakers' keyboardist Benmont Tench and pedal steel virtuoso Greg Leisz), and she turns it loose on "Oh Canada," a nod to her home nation, and "Oil Man's War," which speculates that a permanent trip to that country may be a viable alternative to life south of the border. --Scott Holter