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Asking for Flowers
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by Kathleen Edwards
Sales Rank: 192198
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List Price: $19.98
$18.98
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on 11-20-2008.
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1. Buffalo
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2. The Cheapest Key
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3. Asking for Flowers
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4. Alicia Ross
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5. I Make the Dough, You Get the Glory
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6. Oil Man's War
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7. Sure as Shit
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8. Run
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9. Oh Canada
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10. Scared at Night
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11. Goodnight, California
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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).
--This text refers to the
Audio CD
edition.
I think that "Failer" was one of the best debut albums of the last 10 years. I don't find that I listen to "Back To Me" very much, and I wondered whether maybe the first album would stand as the best of Kathleen's career. I did not know what to expect with "Asking for Flowers". I'd read in No Depression that Kathleen had experimented a bit more, and I did not find that particularly appealing, frankly. The first couple of spins did not catch my attention. I didn't hear any song which had a hook that caught me. But somewhere along the line, this CD really started to get to me. It's alternately poignant and humorous--take the juxtaposition of 'Alicia Ross', a haunting, true story about the murder of a young girl, with 'I Make The Dough, You Get the Glory" with its already classic "You're the great one, I'm Marty McSorley" line. That one will resonate with Canadians and hockey fans. 'Buffalo' is tremendous, 'The Cheapest Key' is straight ahead, no- nonsense, no-message rock. 'Scared at Night' is beautiful. This album has it all--poignant lyrics, great rock, catchy hooks and some nice humor. Truly a keeper--and a masterpiece. Anyway, if you ask me, this one is a classic and leads my 'Best of 2008'. Rick V vosmo (Please note--no mention of 'Neil Young' or 'Lucinda Williams' in the above review!)
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Updated on 11-20-2008.
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