Kathleen Edwards

With the underrated Failer grabbing the attention of twang heads, it's no surprise that Edwards' second outing includes Jim James of My Morning Jacket. Sounding like the long-lost daughter of Linda Hargrove, Edwards writes the kind of mercurial musings that seem to address your own lovelorn longings.

On her 2003 debut, Kathleen Edwards was a twenty-three-year-old folkie trawling
dead-end bars and the ashtray of her mind for character sketches and tough,
heart-rending tunes. She sang of alcoholism, bad parents and a gun-toting lover, and
managed to sound older than she was. On Back to Me she still does, for good and bad. The
roots-rock downers are blander than her admirers would hope, full of sepia-ton... More >