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Asking for Flowers
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Track Listing
- Buffalo
- The Cheapest Key
- Asking for Flowers
- Alicia Ross
- I Make the Dough, You Get the Glory
- Oil Man's War
- Sure as Shit
- Run
- Oh Canada
- Scared at Night
- Goodnight, California
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #281 in Music
- Released on: 2008-03-04
- Number of discs: 1
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
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
Album Description
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).
Customer Reviews
Not as good as the first one..
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.
Maturing writer.
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.
Very very good
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.
