Asking For Flowers

Kathleen Edwards

Asking For Flowers
Format
Audio
Publisher
ROUNDER RECORDS
Published
4 March 2008
ISBN
0601143111525

Asking For Flowers

Kathleen Edwards

Kathleen Edwards’ Asking for Flowers is her first new album in three years, and the acclaimed artist’s most penetrating collection to date. The album features eleven new songs, all written by Edwards, and finds her performing at the peak of her creative powers, supported by a group of master backing musicians. Flowers tells indelible, clear-eyed stories of hope and resignation, humor and death, unconditional love and brazen inequality.

Co-produced by Edwards and Jim Scott (Tom Petty, Whiskeytown), the album features, among others, keyboardist Benmont Tench from The Heartbreakers, drummer Don Heffington (Bob Dylan, The Wallflowers), bassist Bob Glaub (Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon, Leonard Cohen), guitarist Colin Cripps (Sarah McLachlan, Bryan Adams), and pedal steel ace Greg Leisz (Sheryl Crow, Wilco, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss).

Review

It’s appropriate that this album begins with only Edwards’s vocals. Sparse, earthy and familiar. Like her two brilliant earlier albums she uses her vocals and intelligent lyrics to create both lush arrangements or simple and heartwarming folky ballads. The unmistakable fact is this albums personal intent. Lived-in stories and experiences that she shares with us. Either way, I’m buying what she’s selling and I’m also buying this album. A great listen.

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