Kathleen Edwards

Kathleen Edwards Instagram – When I was 19, I was working at a coffee shop in Ottawa spending my time writing songs and playing shows. In the following few years those songs evolved into my first album, Failer. Songs formed from my love for songwriting, falling in love with Americana and roots music, finding a place in my local music scene, and living a pretty wild first few years out on my own. 19 years since it’s release, the vinyl pressing of Failer has finally been printed. Pre-order at the link up top. It seems strangely fitting that the boxes of freshly pressed vinyl were shipped to my coffee shop in Ottawa, Jim Bryson took the first copy home the day it arrived. ⁣⁣
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It wasn’t an easy thing to put together. We had to source the music from John Whynot, who originally mixed the record because we couldn’t find the original files. We had to have it re-mastered for vinyl by Greg Calbi. We didn’t have any of the artwork saved from the original pressings, lost long ago into the abyss of a record company’s restructuring. Colin Cripps approved the new mastered version, and I even found a few boxes of the original CD pressing of Failer from 2002, with different artwork and a different recorded version of 6 O’clock News. It’s been a trip down memory lane (some memories clearer than others), messy and unkempt, but somehow wonderfully true and real. My manager Holly Lowman was instrumental in finding all these pieces and putting them together so this could happen.  ⁣⁣
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It’s pretty insane to think of who I was back then, all the doors it opened for me. Playing my US television debut on the Letterman show the week Failer was released. It still seems surreal that this record took me where it did, and that you all loved it so much. So many people have asked when this album would be available on vinyl, so here it is. As I’ve come to learn, failure is the stuff that makes success so much sweeter. | Posted on 02/Sep/2021 01:24:05