New Kathleen Edwards Album Due In March



November 27, 2007, 5:50 PM ET
Katie Hasty, N.Y.

Kathleen Edwards will release her first album in three years come March. "Asking for Flowers," due March 4 via Zoe/Rounder, was produced by the songwriter herself and Jim Scott and features a number of prominent backing players.

Included in the mix is Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench, Bob Dylan drummer Don Heffington, bassist Bob Glaub (Jackson Browne, Leonard Cohen), guitarist Colin Cripps (Sarah McLachlan, Bryan Adams) and pedal steel player Greg Leisz.

"Some nights I lay awake worrying about the quality of the work I have done, hoping this album won't fall flat on its face from my stubborn insistence that I be overly involved in most of the details," Edwards wrote on her Web site. But she added that the title track "is one of the strongest songs I've ever written, so whatever comes in the future I know that I've been able to do something that I'm proud of."

"Asking for Flowers" will be the Canada native's third studio effort and second for Zoe, following March 2005's "Back to Me." That effort peaked at No. 6 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart.

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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.

Product 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).

1. Buffalo 5:15
2. The Cheapest Key 2:42
3. Asking for Flowers 5:02
4. Alicia Ross 5:06
5. I Make The Dough, You Get The Glory 4:37
6. Oil Man's War 4:01
7. Sure As Shit 4:09
8. Run 3:43
9. Oh Canada 3:59
10. Scared At Night 4:09
11. Goodnight, California 6:28

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00128X6Z0/?tag=imwan-20

Bump ~ added tracklisting to the first post.