Kathleen Edwards

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Kathleen Edwards (born July 11, 1978) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist.

Failer's 2003 debut album included singles "Six O'Clock News" and "Hockey Skates."

Back to Me and Asking for Flowers, her new two albums, made it to the Billboard 200 list and reached the top ten of Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart.

Edwards' fourth studio album, Voyageur, debuted in 2012, and it was the first album to crack the top 100 and top 40 in the United States, peaking at #39 on the US charts. Billboard 200 and #2 in Canada.

Edward's song "A Soft Place To Land" received the SOCAN Songwriting Prize in 2012, an annual competition that recognizes the best song written and released by 'emerging' songwriters over the past year, as voted by the public.

Suzanne Vega meets Neil Young, and her musical style has been likened to that of Neil Young.

Early life

Edwards, the daughter of a diplomat, spent major portions of her youth in Korea and Switzerland. Leonard Edwards, the former Foreign Affairs Minister, is her father. Edwards began classical violin studies at the age of 5, which lasted for the next 12 years. She lived in the United States as an adolescent, where she spent a large portion of her time listening to her brother's recordings of Neil Young and Bob Dylan. A Tom Petty album was also bought by her brother, who gave her her her her first album. She chose not to attend post-secondary education after high school but instead chose to play local clubs to pay the bills.

Personal life

Colin Cripps, a British guitarist and collaborator, married Edward Cripps in 2004. In 2011, they divorced. Edwards spent time in a friendship with Justin Vernon, a Wisconsin-born singer/songwriter and front-man of the band Bon Iver. In 2012, Edwards and Vernon were divorced.

Edwards took a step back from the music scene in 2014 and founded Quitters Coffee House in Stittsville with Rick Tremblay (who was her boss when she worked in a downtown Starbucks in the 1990s). She insisted that she is not leaving music but rather taking a break, and that the word Quitters is "sort of tongue-in-cheek." Quitters closed on March 6, 2022, after Edwards sold the company in order to return to her music career.

Edwards continued to perform regularly, with a number of new songs in 2018. Edwards, an American singer-songwriter, opened up on Twitter in August 2019, after Neal Casal's suicide, prompted her to take time away from her music career due to the battle with depression.

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Music career

Edwards released Building 55, a six-song EP, in 1999, and the first 500 copies were sold. She was on tour around Canada by the fall of 2000 and was handling her own gigs. She wrote seven of the ten songs for her 2002 debut on Failer in 2001.

Edwards appeared at SXSW in 2002 and later became a member of Rounder Records and MapleMusic shortly after. On MapleMusic Recordings, a Failer was released in Canada in the fall of 2002. Rounder Records in the United States and internationally released Failer in January 2003. Rolling Stone named Failer as one of the year's most promising new acts and Blender said the characters she praised had "an indefinable pull that makes you love the characters they love, no matter how fucked up they are." Edwards was praised by the New York Times as a writer whose songs can "pare situations down to a few dozen words, but they also push country-rock toward its primal instincts of thump and twang." "Six O'clock News" was her television network debut on Late Show with David Letterman, where she appeared on "Six O'Clock News."

Edwards' Back to Me, which also received significant critical acclaim, was released in 2005, and "In State" and "Back to Me" followed their release. "Summerlong" was also featured on the soundtrack of Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst's film Elizabethtown.

Asking for Flowers, Edwards' third studio album, was released in 2008. The San Francisco Bay Guardian rated it as "her finest album to date" and was a shortlisted nominee for the 2008 Polaris Music Prize. Asking for Flowers mostly features session musicians, in comparison to 2005's Back to Me, in which Edwards rely on her support band.

Edwards began recording in Wisconsin in fall 2010 and was working on her fourth studio album. In January 2012, Voyageur was first introduced in Belgium. It features the single "Change the Sheets" and was co-produced by Bon Iver's Justin Vernon.

On January 17, 2012, she performed "Change the Sheets" from her latest album Voyageur, and appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman.

Edwards' first new single since Voyageur, "It's Christmastime (Let's Just Survive), on the Dualtone Records compilation album A Dualtone Christmas, released in November 2019.

Edwards unveiled the single "Options Open" and announced Total Freedom in May 2020, her first new album in eight years. The album was released on August 14, 2020.

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