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| Featured Artist Link REALLYMUSICRADIO presentsKathleen Edwards
After being hailed as one of the finest and most distinctive singer-songwriters to emerge in 2003, Kathleen Edwards is poised to vault to the front rank of contemporary music with her superlative sophomore album, Back To Me.
Back To Me features 11 new songs that cover an ambitious range of themes, styles and emotions. "It's always been important to me that my records work as an album - that it isn't just a collection of songs, but something that creates a real, vivid, three-dimensional portrait. And I don't want to rely on the same dynamic and style on every song. I want to use every crayon in the box, and I feel like I accomplished that with Back To Me," says Edwards. The 26-year-old singer-songwriter's 2003 debut Failer started as an indie project recorded with friends in the Ottawa music scene. "Failer was made really without any preconceptions or expectations," says Edwards. "I was just working with my friends and trying to make the best record I could. I don't think even in my wildest dreams I imagined I'd end up on Letterman and Leno, touring everywhere and opening for The Stones and AC/DC and Bob Dylan. I wasn't aiming for any of that, but it all happened." "When it came time to make Back To Me, I tried to put all that aside and really focused on the job at hand, which is writing and recording songs that say what I want to say and making music with my friends and people I trust and admire," Edwards says. As surely as Edwards was able to return her focus to her songwriting and recording, the songs on Back To Me acknowledge that, for her personally, some things have changed. If there's one thing Edwards' travels showed her, though, it is that the music world, too, is ripe for change. "I do get a sense that there is a change coming. People are getting tired of a lot of the safe, predictable, plastic music that has been shoved at them in recent years. They responded to my record and I know there's this big reservoir of music, and of music lovers, that have been waiting for something new, something a little more substantial. As a music fan, I'm hoping that change does happen. And as singer and songwriter, I'd love to be a part of it." Or, as she sings on Back To Me's title cut: "I've got ways to make you sing my songs/Ones I ain't written yet/I've got lights you've never seen/I've got moves I've never used/I've got ways to make you come/Back to me." So welcome back, Kathleen Edwards. |
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