{"id":5089,"date":"2012-02-29T02:02:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T09:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=5089"},"modified":"2012-03-12T19:05:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T02:05:23","slug":"kathleen-edwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/02\/kathleen-edwards\/","title":{"rendered":"KATHLEEN EDWARDS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"KATHLEEN EDWARDS<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Digging herself out of a familiar hole, with a hand from a new friend\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since her 2003 debut album,\u00a0Failer<\/em>, Kathleen Edwards has gradually honed her craft as a singer and songwriter whose finely wrought character sketches teem with both sardonic humor and knife\u2019s-edge emotional danger. \u201cAnd then part of me felt like I had fallen a little bit too complacent,\u201d says Edwards, an Ottawa, Ontario, native who now lives in Toronto. \u201cI thought, \u2018OK, I know how to write a song, I know how to write a chorus, I know how to put a guitar lick here.\u2019 I\u2019m not diminishing the heart and the truth of how I\u2019ve approached music before, but I was ready to be more challenged by what I was doing. I felt like I had dug\u00a0a hole for myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Enter Justin Vernon, the mastermind behind indie-rock sensation Bon Iver, who was introduced to Edwards through a mutual friend. When the notion of Vernon producing her new album arose, she was skeptical. \u201cI didn\u2019t really see how his musical aesthetic would be right for me,\u201d she recalls. \u201cBut he just got it. When you\u2019re trying to do something different and you don\u2019t know how to articulate what that is, if the other person is able to finish your sentences and you go, \u2018Yes, that\u2019s what I meant,\u2019 you know you\u2019re on to something. And Justin did. We\u00a0just went from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

The result of their collaboration is Voyageur<\/em>, as intimate and daring as any album Edwards has recorded\u2014aspects she credits Vernon with encouraging. \u201cThe songs that I write are my life, they\u2019re things that I feel, they are my victories, they\u2019re my disappointments, they\u2019re everything,\u201d she says. \u201cI can\u2019t imagine being in a studio and working on this thing that is such a huge force in my life with somebody who you feel like you can\u2019t trust.\u201d Still, she notes that Vernon was adamant that Voyageur<\/em> ultimately be Edwards\u2019 own vision. \u201cThere\u2019s a reason that Justin Vernon is currently one of the most respected and successful artists in popular music,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s because his intentions are in the right place.\u201d<\/p>\n

After a brief winter break, Edwards is eager to get back on the road and take her new songs to the stage. \u201cI\u2019m nervous,\u201d she admits. \u201cI feel pretty vulnerable right now. I wrote a really private record. I put my whole life into these songs. I\u2019m excited to stop talking about them and\u00a0actually let them be.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Chris Neal<\/p>\n

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KATHLEEN EDWARDS\u00a0 Digging herself out of a familiar hole, with a hand from a new friend\u00a0 Since her 2003 debut album,\u00a0Failer, Kathleen Edwards has gradually honed her craft as a singer and songwriter whose finely wrought character sketches teem with both sardonic humor and knife\u2019s-edge emotional danger. \u201cAnd then part of me felt like I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[3032,3159,10156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5362,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089\/revisions\/5362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}