Une découverte Kathleen Edwards, le site officiel, le site sur Myspace. Alt-country singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards joins host David Dye to talk and play songs from her latest album, Asking for Flowers. With smart lyrics that range from the emotional to the political to the hilarious, the disc has been widely hailed as her best yet. Several of its songs are already World Cafe favorites, including “The Cheapest Key” and the title track. She performs both songs and more in this session. Edwards’ fusion of alt-country, folk, and pop made her a star in Canada shortly after the release of her 2003 debut album, Failer. In the years to follow, the skilled songwriter and violinist has continued to build on her popularity, scoring two Juno nominations for her sophomore disc, Back to Me (World Cafe).

Kathleen Margaret Edwards was born on July 11th 1978 in Ottawa, Ontario. Her father Leonard Edwards was a diplomate, which led to that Kathleen grew up in such countries as South Korea and Switzerland. At the age of five, she started taking classical violin lessons that continued for the next twelve years. This came in handy when she recorded Failer; Kathleen played and arranged all the string parts on the album. In 1997 her family moved back to Canada, and Kathleen’s music taste changed. Before this time she was mainly interested in mainstream pop music, but now she started to listen to her brother’s record collection. Her brother’s music taste included artists Bob Dylan and Neil Young. During her last two years of high school she started to play more guitar than studying. In 1999 she started to play open mike nights, and at the same time she started writing her own songs. She recorded the six-song ep Building 55, pressing 500 copies.

This was the start for a tour of Canada in her Suburban truck, pictured on the cover of Failer. She booked her own showns, making just enough gas money to take her from place to place. By the fall of 2000, she started to record Failer at Little Bullhorn Studios in Ottawa. Seven of the ten songs on the album originated from a breakup with an old boyfriend and her move to the Wakefield countryside. At the end of 2001 Kathleen signed with American record company Rounder, and things started to happen. She played SXSW in Austin, and opened for Don Williams, Melissa Etheridge and Richard Buckner in 2002. The album was released on Maple Music in September the same year. In 2003 she was a guest at The Tonight Show, The Letterman Show, toured Europe and was featured in Rolling Stone as one of “10 to watch in 2003”. Her latest album was released on March 1st and is called “Back To Me”.

# 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