27 years after her debut, Kathleen Edwards revisits Failer and early songs she barely recognizes, tracing the strange path back through musician-producers, a covers project born of the algorithm, and relearning how to believe what you sing.
Category: Kathleen Edwards
Kathleen Edwards :: Change the Sheets / Wapusk (w/ Bon Iver)
By the time Kathleen Edwards’ forthcoming album, Voyageur, sees the light of day early next January, it will have been almost four years since her last album, Asking For Flowers . A complete travesty for those of us who have […]
Decade :: Kathleen Edwards, Failer (2003)
What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of a new decade, we’re in […]
Kathleen Edwards :: The AD Interview
Canadian singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards ‘ debut, 2003’s Failer , made our top ten list of that year. Five years and three albums later, Edwards, on tour in support of her new album Asking For Flowers, sat down with […]
Kathleen Edwards :: Asking For Flowers
If you somehow manage to avoid the sophomore slump in music, all eyes immediately shift to see if there’s the junior jinx. Kathleen Edwards avoided that slump by creating a more nuanced and textured version of her […]
Kathleen Edwards :: Building 55
It’s 1999. Kathleen Edwards records a seven-song EP entitled Building 55 and presses 500 copies. This EP, now long out of print, is the first recorded output of Edwards’ career prior to her signing […]
