kathleen edwards total freedom

​Kathleen Edwards (from the album Total Freedom available on Dualtone Music)
Any musical offering from Kathleen Edwards in the past six years may have been heard on rare days when she hummed along to a song from behind the counter of her combination coffee shop/bar/café in Stittsville, Ottawa. In 2014, Kathleen Edwards walked away from a career in motion, opening a successful business, aptly called Quitters, outside of the industry she had been a part of during four album releases. Playing and songwriting held no interest, nor did being part of the machine that a musician must willingly commit to in order to get their songs heard. The pressures were gone; building a fanbase, touring, merchandising, promoting. As the wheel turned Kathleen Edwards simply stepped off, allowing her time to listen to music and experience life as a single day. The decision proved a positive point for the artist, refreshing her desire to create and revisit her past for the words to apply to her music. The result is Total Freedom, the most recent release from Kathleen Edwards.
 
The opening cut “Glenfern” celebrates the love/hate relationship we have with the times in our life that form our future, Kathleen Edwards taking a look around, wondering how she arrived in the space she stands, and recalling the ride she took on the rock’n’roller coaster. The weight she carried that led her to take a break has been lessened by a lightening of the load as Kathleen Edwards’ perspective sees those times that broke her resolve as gifts. The spark from a chance meeting fans the flames for “Options Open” as Total Freedom opens its heart to talk of two-legged and four-legged friends in “Who Rescued Who”. The musical backing wraps around the stories revealed in the words, gently curling around the ending of love in “Feelings Fade”, its pace quickening once the truth is spoken. Total Freedom (co-produced by Ian Fithchuk and longtime Edwards collaborator/guitarist Jim Bryson) gets namechecked in “Birds on a Feeder”, Kathleen Edwards capturing the joy she has attained in the storyline. 
 
Listen and buy the music of Kathleen Edwards from AMAZON
 
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