Kathleen Edwards

Like fellow Canadian Sarah Harmer, Kathleen Edwards is skilled at negotiating the inherent contrasts of alt country, using traditional twang as effectively as spacey atmospherics, and employing her crystalline voice on badmouthing songs like "The Cheapest Key" and "Sure As Sh*t" for biting results. Her smartest writing comes with the tale of two fleeing lovers in "Oil Man's War," a bold political statement that's made with welcomed subtlety.

America outsources everything else — why not country music? Like Neil Young, Robbie
Robertson and Shania Twain, Kathleen Edwards is a Canadian who crafts music that's often
more "American"-tasting than domestic brands. But she's not fronting. On her strongest
album yet, she sets a poignant road tale between New York and Ontario ("Buffalo") and
pens a fierce, Crazy Horse-ish squall about crack, murder and racism in her own... More >