Wow, that's wild. With all the talk of nut allergies, and wheat allergies and whatnot, it's easy to forget all about good ol' bee stings.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 04:38 (twelve years ago) link
hockey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m69S1dfrak
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Saturday, 4 May 2013 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
:-(
http://www.canada.com/entertainment/music/Kathleen+Edwards+says+doesn+want+make+music+anymore/9494991/story.html
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Friday, 14 February 2014 01:28 (ten years ago) link
Blame Bon Iver.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 14 February 2014 01:33 (ten years ago) link
Covers of Springsteen's "Human Touch" and REM's "Sweetness Follows" up at her Soundcloud page. The latter is gorgeous.
https://soundcloud.com/kathleen-edwards-1
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 13:24 (ten years ago) link
Man, is she good. We're due a new album, aren't we? Didn't she say something about opening a restaurant?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 October 2014 22:37 (nine years ago) link
:) for her, :( for us ... guessing (or maybe hoping) she'll make another record and play more shows someday?
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/2014/11/29/kathleen_edwards_calls_it_quits_opens_quitters_coffee.html
― alpine static, Sunday, 30 November 2014 23:38 (nine years ago) link
That's so romantic.
― bamcquern, Monday, 1 December 2014 04:07 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, that's a great story. Hope I can make it over there myself one day. Voyageur was a real misstep for her and I'm sorry but I have to lay a lot of the blame for that at Vernon's feet, it was far too limp and watery for my liking. Asking for Flowers was a masterpiece – as indeed were the first two records – so I hope that if and when she returns to recording she rediscovers that side of her muse.
― rising stones cross (anagram), Monday, 1 December 2014 12:55 (nine years ago) link
Voyageur was a bit limp, but it had good songs, imo, and I thought Vernon affected/hurt it less than I feared he would. It *was* a step down from the first three, but I mean...that's a pretty tough bar to try to reach, you know?
― alpine static, Monday, 1 December 2014 18:22 (nine years ago) link
Man, I knew she was threatening to quit and open a place, but I didn't realize she actually went and did it. She's one of my favorite songwriters of all time. Could somehow see her fitting in with the current Pistol Annies/Clark/Musgraves crew.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 July 2015 18:48 (nine years ago) link
has anyone tried her cafe yet, I keep meaning to trek there on one of my days off
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Friday, 3 July 2015 20:19 (nine years ago) link
It's in Stittsville, right? A bit too much of a trek for me. I went to high school with her so I'd be kind of curious, ha.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 3 July 2015 20:47 (nine years ago) link
i love kathleen edwards
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:03 (nine years ago) link
cosign x1000000
― Mordy, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:06 (nine years ago) link
tbh think she is too dismissive of "Elvis Presley in the seventies."
― Sketches by T-Boz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 October 2016 20:19 (seven years ago) link
Eh, aka "fat Elvis," definitiely worthy pejorative shorthand imo.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 October 2016 20:21 (seven years ago) link
Polk Salad Annie to thread.
― Sketches by T-Boz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 October 2016 20:35 (seven years ago) link
failer is one of my fav albums of all time. nobody's really about voyageur upthread but i kinda think it's her second best, i love how lush it is
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 18 October 2016 20:45 (seven years ago) link
i can't believe voyageur was already 4 years ago
asking for flowers was her best imo
― Mordy, Tuesday, 18 October 2016 21:35 (seven years ago) link
the fog rolled in on the back of a storm / in the night you and i drove / have you ever seen lightning and snow
― Mordy, Tuesday, 18 October 2016 21:36 (seven years ago) link
Voyageur has some great songs but the production and arrangements make it mostly a soppy blur for mw. Luckily there's a clear scapegoat handy
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 18 October 2016 21:54 (seven years ago) link
Yeah ... Canada!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 October 2016 21:59 (seven years ago) link
the back half of Failer is about as devastating as music gets for me.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 18 October 2016 22:19 (seven years ago) link
yuuup. "Sweet Little Duck," goddamn.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 00:08 (seven years ago) link
So I stopped by Quitters Cafe this past Saturday night and yeah, it was a tightly packed house. It looks like a fairly successful business but I kept wondering how many in the room were hoping that she'd bring out a guitar and sing something.
― doug watson, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 01:59 (seven years ago) link
Been playing the first three albums a lot lately but still can't find anything nice to say about Voyageur. Will she ever make another record?
I'd love to visit Quitters one day.
― heaven parker (anagram), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 07:29 (seven years ago) link
I think Back To Me just has the edge over Failer.
― heaven parker (anagram), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 07:30 (seven years ago) link
what do y'all think "change the sheets" isn't beautiful
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 13:18 (seven years ago) link
all four albums are 8+ out of 10, Failer may have the highest highs, but Asking For Flowers is the best overall, imo
if she's happy that's all that matters ... but i still wish she'd come back to music. maybe someday.
― alpine static, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 13:49 (seven years ago) link
Like that little burr in her voice, it adds an edge and doesn't sound at all like an affection unlike, say, Little Lucy Williams.
― Plastico-Tico no Fubá (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 November 2016 02:27 (seven years ago) link
Was trying to figure what Alfred's problem was, but now I reread and it seems like the time he doesn't like it is when she DOESN'T sing like that.
― Plastico-Tico no Fubá (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 November 2016 02:29 (seven years ago) link
Fascinated by "Buffalo." Seems to have a parsable story, but I've been burned before and I know the score so maybe I'd better leave it alone.
― Plastico-Tico no Fubá (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 November 2016 02:30 (seven years ago) link
Don't be-e-e like that
― I Walk the Ondioline (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 11 December 2016 02:13 (seven years ago) link
otm
― Mordy, Sunday, 11 December 2016 02:14 (seven years ago) link
Even quitters quit quitting. See you at Massey hall. https://t.co/lFdsxEedNf— Kathleen Edwards (@kittythefool) January 22, 2018
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 February 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link
omg
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 5 February 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link
Y E S
― Simon H., Monday, 5 February 2018 21:01 (six years ago) link
this woman is a genius
ICYMI, KE seems like she is getting much closer to a full-scale revival of her music career:
...making a new album:
I leave in 5 days to start making a new album. “I’m so excited for you!”, “how amazing” is what I’m hearing from friends and family. And they’re very kind and supportive. But I’m peaking out on the anxiety meter. Big time. And that’s how mental health rears it’s ugly head.— Kathleen Edwards (@kittythefool) March 4, 2019
It's with heartfelt gratitude and excitement i get to say.... I wrote a song with Maren for her new album! "Good Woman" was written during a devastating heartbreak hoping the phone would ring. Maren has turned it into a loving expression of joy, can't wait for release day!! https://t.co/cFLGrVmNw4— Kathleen Edwards (@kittythefool) March 1, 2019
signing a record deal via DocuSign is infinitely less cool that on the hood of a car. but still. signed a motherfucking record deal today. this old broad stillllllllz gots it.— Kathleen Edwards (@kittythefool) March 5, 2019
very good news, imo
― alpine static, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 23:49 (five years ago) link
Incredible news.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 00:10 (five years ago) link
oh my fucking god
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 00:28 (five years ago) link
I saw she’s playing a festival in Camden this summer and I thought it was a one off how exciting that there’s actual new music coming!!!!
― Mordy, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 00:38 (five years ago) link
Ahhhhhjhhhhh
― Simon H., Wednesday, 17 April 2019 01:19 (five years ago) link
Acclaimed singer, songwriter and musician Kathleen Edwards will release her highly anticipated new album, Total Freedom, August 14 on Dualtone (an Entertainment One Company). In advance of the release, the album’s first single, “Options Open,” is debuting today. Alongside the album announcement, Rolling Stone is featuring Edwards in an exclusive, in-depth profile chronicling her long-awaited return to music, praising, “Total Freedom is the result of profound self-reflection from Edwards, who’s reached a place where her past trials, false starts, and wrong turns have begun to feel less like a burden and more like a blessing.” Co-produced by Edwards, longtime collaborator and guitarist Jim Bryson and Grammy Award-winning producer and musician Ian Fitchuk, Total Freedom marks a major return for Edwards, who took an extended step away from music in 2014. After spending the last six years running her successful small business (a coffee shop, bar and café aptly named Quitters, in her hometown of Stittsville, Ottawa), Edwards is back with a refreshed creative outlook and a new sense of freedom. Across the album’s eleven songs, Edwards revisits past relationships with a new perspective, explores her own resilience and optimism and for the first time pursues what she feels is right rather than what is expected. “I had no desire to write, no desire to play,” she says of what she refers to as her “working sabbatical.” “It allowed me all the time and space I needed to even just enjoy listening to music again. There were so many times where, if I was thinking about my own writing or playing, my heart just wasn't in it.” She continues, “I don’t want to write songs that are going to keep me in a dark place for two years. I didn’t have to carry a lot of the pressure of whatever course I was on previously…There’s a pressure sometimes to keep that ball rolling, and that’s what was so freeing about stopping altogether and starting again. I realized I’m entirely in control and deciding what my course of action is."Total Freedom is Edwards’ fifth-studio album since her 2003 debut and her first since 2012’s Voyageur. The album reached #39 on the United States’ Billboard 200 chart, #2 in Canada and received widespread critical acclaim—NPR Music praised, “Her songs feel as personal and lived-in as ever…Edwards has never seemed more confident in her own considerable gifts,” while Pitchfork declared, “Each song emphasizes change and risk, and Edwards never resorts to tired sentiments or platitudes about healing and hope” and Rolling Stone proclaimed, “an exquisite, widescreen beauty.” Now based in Ottawa, Ontario, Edwards is a five-time Juno Award nominee and winner of the SOCAN Songwriting Prize for Voyageur track, “A Soft Place to Land.” She has also had her music featured in several hit television shows including Grey’s Anatomy, One Tree Hill, Hart of Dixie, House and more.TOTAL FREEDOM TRACK LIST1. Glenfern2. Hard On Everyone3. Birds On A Feeder4. Simple Math5. Options Open6. Feelings Fade7. Fools Ride8. Ashes to Ashes9. Who Rescued Who10. Take It With You
Alongside the album announcement, Rolling Stone is featuring Edwards in an exclusive, in-depth profile chronicling her long-awaited return to music, praising, “Total Freedom is the result of profound self-reflection from Edwards, who’s reached a place where her past trials, false starts, and wrong turns have begun to feel less like a burden and more like a blessing.”
Co-produced by Edwards, longtime collaborator and guitarist Jim Bryson and Grammy Award-winning producer and musician Ian Fitchuk, Total Freedom marks a major return for Edwards, who took an extended step away from music in 2014. After spending the last six years running her successful small business (a coffee shop, bar and café aptly named Quitters, in her hometown of Stittsville, Ottawa), Edwards is back with a refreshed creative outlook and a new sense of freedom. Across the album’s eleven songs, Edwards revisits past relationships with a new perspective, explores her own resilience and optimism and for the first time pursues what she feels is right rather than what is expected.
“I had no desire to write, no desire to play,” she says of what she refers to as her “working sabbatical.” “It allowed me all the time and space I needed to even just enjoy listening to music again. There were so many times where, if I was thinking about my own writing or playing, my heart just wasn't in it.” She continues, “I don’t want to write songs that are going to keep me in a dark place for two years. I didn’t have to carry a lot of the pressure of whatever course I was on previously…There’s a pressure sometimes to keep that ball rolling, and that’s what was so freeing about stopping altogether and starting again. I realized I’m entirely in control and deciding what my course of action is."Total Freedom is Edwards’ fifth-studio album since her 2003 debut and her first since 2012’s Voyageur. The album reached #39 on the United States’ Billboard 200 chart, #2 in Canada and received widespread critical acclaim—NPR Music praised, “Her songs feel as personal and lived-in as ever…Edwards has never seemed more confident in her own considerable gifts,” while Pitchfork declared, “Each song emphasizes change and risk, and Edwards never resorts to tired sentiments or platitudes about healing and hope” and Rolling Stone proclaimed, “an exquisite, widescreen beauty.” Now based in Ottawa, Ontario, Edwards is a five-time Juno Award nominee and winner of the SOCAN Songwriting Prize for Voyageur track, “A Soft Place to Land.” She has also had her music featured in several hit television shows including Grey’s Anatomy, One Tree Hill, Hart of Dixie, House and more.
TOTAL FREEDOM TRACK LIST1. Glenfern2. Hard On Everyone3. Birds On A Feeder4. Simple Math5. Options Open6. Feelings Fade7. Fools Ride8. Ashes to Ashes9. Who Rescued Who10. Take It With You
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 14:46 (four years ago) link
Ooh great I can't wait to hear this. Good news that she's dumped Vernon as producer (following their break-up). I loved her first three albums but I found the last one close to unlistenable.
― the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 14:54 (four years ago) link
AAAAAAHHHHHH
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 14:56 (four years ago) link
I was wondering what happened to her old guitarist/producer/boyfriend (I think?) Colin Cripps, and it turns out not only is a member of Blue Rodeo now, he and a friend released a surf album under the name C & C Surf Factory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQmi5eDrorY
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 14:59 (four years ago) link
it makes me very happy to hear "Crappy Tire" used in a lyric
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 15:00 (four years ago) link
I found the last one close to unlistenable.
― the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Tuesday, May 19, 2020 7:54 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
come on it's a good record
i am so fucking thrilled this is happening
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 15:03 (four years ago) link
This new interview is a great read. Sounds like she's in a better place at the moment:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/kathleen-edwards-comeback-new-album-total-freedom-1001469/
― the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 16:12 (four years ago) link