Artist	Song
Kathleen Edwards	Buffalo
from Asking for Flowers (2010)
Kathleen Edwards	Back to Me
from Back to Me (2005)
Kathleen Edwards	Hockey Skates
from Failer (2010)
Kathleen Edwards	In State
from Back to Me (2005)
Kathleen Edwards	Asking for Flowers
from Asking for Flowers (2010)
Kathleen Edwards	Six O'Clock News
from Failer (2010)
Kathleen Edwards	Summerlong
from Back to Me (2005)
Kathleen Edwards	The Cheapest Key
from Asking for Flowers (2010)
Kathleen Edwards	One More Song the Radio Won't Like
from Failer (2010)
Kathleen Edwards	Goodnight, California
from Asking for Flowers (2010)
Kathleen Edwards	Sweet Lil' Duck
from Failer (2010)
Kathleen Edwards	Old Time Sake
from Back to Me (2005)
Kathleen Edwards	The Lone Wolf
from Failer (2010)
Kathleen Edwards	Sure As Shit
from Asking for Flowers (2010)
Kathleen Edwards	Good Things
from Back to Me (2005)

Comment:

How [i]is[/i] it that Canada produces so many great female singer-songwriters — Joni Mitchell, k. d. lang, Sarah McLachlan, Jane Siberry, the McGarrigle sisters, Loreena McKennitt, Lynn Miles, and now Kathleen Edwards? [i]Must be something in the ice[/i]. Splitting the difference between Gillian Welch's alt-country and Cowboy Junkie Margo Timmins' whisper-soft rock, Edwards spills her voice out like so much Grade-A maple syrup over songs that are unexpectedly insightful for someone yet to hit 30. Hell hath no fury like a scorned singer, and Edwards amps up "Back to Me" with a shotgun blast list of the tricks she [i]might[/i] use to bring home a lover who's strayed. "In State" carries bitterness to a new level when she almost clinically dissects a lying ex-boyfriend who's about to pay — with a stretch in the pen — for crimes of the heart [i]and[/i] the law. And she throws in the metaphoric towel in "Hockey Skates" when she sings, "I'm so tired of playing defense/And I don't even have hockey skates."

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