Asking for Flowers

Of all the female singer-songwriters who inhabit the borderland between actual country and general roots music, few have as much presence as Canadian Kathleen Edwards.

Kathleen Edwards' 2005 album Back to Me was the sort of record that grows and reveals new secrets each time you gave it a listen, so it's tempting not to trust immediate impressions after three spins of her next set, 2008's Asking for Flowers.

Kathleen Edwards’s pen is at its sharpest on her third album.