Kathleen Edwards, “Asking for Flowers”

What I like about Kathleen Edwards is that there is an “upfront” attitude with the way she expresses things in her songs. In many of the songs on this particular album, for instance, she’s pointing out things things that aren’t quite right (like not getting the right fulfillment out of a relationship or even observing things wrong with society society) and then saying something like “hey, this is dumb, we need to fix this”. There’s this emotional rawness in her directness sometimes like in this one track called “Sure As Shit” where she says “I sure as shit do love you / And I cuss because I mean it / And for that in my heart I am hopeful / And these words that I chose / I was so careful”...

My favorite track from the album is I Make the Dough, You Get the Glory. I’ve gotten complaints as I’ve been told that this seems to be the only song that’s ever playing in my car. This is in fact by far the song I’ve played the most times on my iPod since I’ve had it… I think it’s all the pedal steel that makes the song so catchy. I love the steel guitar, and if I could ever learn to play just one instrument it would be the pedal steel guitar… Anyway, here are some of the lyrics:

If I write down these memories
that I have saved away
Photographs of the years that have passed
inside my little brain

You’re cool and cred like Fogerty
I’m Elvis Presley in the 70’s
You’re Chateauneuf, I’m Yellow Label
You’re the buffet, I’m just the table
I’m a Ford Tempo, you’re a Maserati
You’re The Great One, I’m Marty McSorley
You’re the Concorde, I’m economy
I make the dough, but you get the glory