Kathleen Edwards-Total Freedom-CD-FLAC-2020-THEVOiD

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 Info   
     Artist  | Kathleen Edwards
     Title   | Total Freedom
     Genre   | Folk-Rock                            Format  | Album
     Source  | CD                                   Time    | 38:32
     Label   | Dualtone                             Store   | 2020
     Catalog | 803020199521                         Rip     | 2020
     Bitrate | 851 kbps                             Size    | 247.42 MB
     Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     01. Glenfern                                                    4:30
     02. Hard On Everyone                                            5:32
     03. Birds On A Feeder                                           3:13
     04. Simple Math                                                 4:15
     05. Options Open                                                3:48
     06. Feelings Fade                                               3:21
     07. Fools Ride                                                  3:29
     08. Ashes To Ashes                                              4:05
     09. Who Rescued Who                                             2:23
     10. Take It With You When You Go                                3:56
 Notes  
     Canadian singer and songwriter Kathleen Edwards became a star in the
     Americana community in the 2000s on the basis of her emotionally incisive
     songs and sweetly smoky voice. Edwards' lyrics are evocative and direct in
     their take on relationships and the trials of everyday lives, and her
     music, which varies from quietly contemplative and keenly boisterous to
     suit her mood, is an effective match for her material. Edwards' second
     album, 2005's "Back To Me", was a critical success that revealed her talent
     to listeners outside Canada, and 2012's "Voyageur", which followed a
     relationship from meeting to breakup, was a commercial success as well as a
     hit with her fans.
     Plenty of folks have dreamed of quitting a job that was stressful and
     making them unhappy, but few actually do it. Fewer still happen to be
     successful indie folk artists who have recently enjoyed a commercial
     breakthrough after years as a critics' darling. However, that's just what
     Edwards did in 2014, setting aside her career in music after the success of
     2012's "Voyageur" to open a coffee shop in Stittsville, Ontario, Canada.
     After Maren Morris persuaded Edwards to co-write a song with her, "Good
     Woman", for her album "Girl", Edwards began dipping her toes back into
     music, and 2020's "Total Freedom" is her first record since taking a
     sabbatical from selling coffee.
     The album sounds very much like her best work of the 2000s - 2005's "Back
     To Me" and 2008's "Asking For Flowers" - in its assured blend of dusty
     prairie atmosphere and subtle yet insistent alt-country-rock moves (though
     this hits a bit less hard than she did 15 years prior). And thankfully,
     Edwards' voice is still in great shape, as the honey-dappled velvet of her
     instrument speaks of joy, caution, and simple determination with street
     smarts and courage. As a songwriter, Edwards is as strong as ever, and six
     years away from the music business seems to have done her heart and soul
     some good.
     "Fools Ride" is the sound of a woman glad to have learned the hard lessons
     of a bad relationship despite the pain it left behind, and "Glenfern" is a
     bemused look at what (and who) she gave up when she got off the road, and
     why she doesn't miss it much at all. "Birds On A Feeder" embraces the life
     of a homebody with quiet, comfortable joy ('I got birds on a feeder/I got
     dogs and they're sleeping/I got total freedom/No one to need me'), and
     "Options Open" is the anthem of a woman who is no longer willing to
     obligate herself to anyone but herself.
     "Total Freedom" is aptly named, as these songs are the work of a songwriter
     who demands no more and no less; now more than ever, Kathleen Edwards is
     living and making music in a way that honors her own spirit, and it reminds
     us why you don't take the work of someone this talented for granted.
     However long she decides to keep writing and singing her songs, we can only
     be grateful for the tough, heartfelt beauty she's chosen to share.

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