Kathleen Edwards photo gallery
From her show at Turner Hall (Milwaukee, WI) on Jan 24, 2012.
[Thanks, littletinyfish!]
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Mint by Kathleen Edwards from Voyageur
Kathleen Edwards - “Mint” from Voyageur
Are You Writing This All Down? Kathleen Edwards 1999-2008
In honor of the release of her new album Voyageur today, I pulled together a little retrospective mix of some of my favorite KE tracks of the last decade (since, well, a lot of people are just coming around to her given the “Bon Iver Bump” that Justin Vernon’s presence as producer has provided).
I deliberately avoided some of her earlier singles - “Six O’Clock News,” “In State,” “Back to Me,” “The Cheapest Key” - because those are easy enough to find online (a couple other singles did make it on the mix though). Instead, I opted for a dozen of my favorites from her three full length albums, her 1999 EP, and also her appearance on John Doe’s In the Wilderness. Oh, and thanks to Ben for a bit of consultation here. Enjoy!
- “Buffalo,” from Asking for Flowers
- “Somewhere Else,” from Back to Me
- “Hockey Skates,” from Failer
- “I Make the Dough, You Get the Glory,” from Asking for Flowers
- “The Golden State,” from John Doe’s In the Wilderness
- “Summerlong,” from Back to Me
- “Independent Thief,” from Back to Me
- “5 Years,” from Building 55
- “Mercury,” from Failer
- “Sure As Shit,” from Asking for Flowers
- “National Steel,” from Failer
- “Good Things,” from Back to Me
is anyone else obsessed with the subtle and spectacular bass lines on Kathleen Edwards’ “Empty Threat?” because uh huh yes
Private WFUV Kathleen Edwards show. Swooooon.
Mad jealz.
Let’s say you have this friend and you’ve been really good friends for, like…a decade? Yeah, a decade. So, anyway, this friend recently, I dunno, got a new job. Or emerged from a bad breakup. Or met a new guy. Or whatever. Whatever it was, this friend has sort of reinvented herself a bit. I mean, not a lot; she didn’t go and like disappear to Thailand for 6 months and came back all into the spiritual benefits of some obscure sub-branch of yoga and eats khao-soi for every third meal or whatever. No, she just, like, got a makeover. A bit of a makeover. Like, for a decade you got so used to her jeans and a hoodie-under-a-jacket look and suddenly she is wearing these funky coats and cool shoes. She’s still rocking the jeans, but maybe they just fit a little better. And the thing is? She looks good. And natural. It all fits, and maybe this person was hiding under the other person all along (and really you like both versions), and anyone who meets this friend post-mini-makeover would never guess she ever looked or dressed any other way. But when you see her and how she still does her hair up in that same messy bun even if the accents and the wardrobe have changed just a little bit you kind of are like “huh.” I mean, you love your friend! You think change is good! But it is definitely change and sometimes maybe you just want her to play “House Full of Empty Rooms” by herself on an acoustic guitar without any of the atmosphere because that’s why you fell for Kathleen Edwards in the first place and I guess I have been talking about Voyageur the entire time?
Anyway, it is different. But I still love it. And that is the closest I guess I can really come to a music review?
Presale tix bought. I am no less than 10 years overdue in seeing KE live.
Oh, look! More new Kathleen Edwards!
:: swoon ::
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Kathleen Edwards // Change the Sheets (via milk-eyed-mender)
you can hear Justin Vernon (who co-produced this) all over the instrumentals.
in case you were wondering if this song became any less good in the past few months, allow me to inform you: it hasn’t.
also, #WUWTIMH
I just double checked to make sure. Yup. Still so good.
Oh, hey - did you guys also listen to the b-side for that new Kathleen Edwards single?
“change the sheets / and then change me”
:: stumbles, exhales, clambers for cigarette ::
