Album Review: Kathleen Edwards - ‘Voyageur’

This classic country rock album by the Canadian songstress was co-produced by Justin Vernon of Bon Iver who also contributes instrumental and vocal backing.
Album Review: Kathleen Edwards - ‘Voyageur’
(Kathleen Edwards/Voyageur/Rounder Records)
1/22/2012
Updated:
10/1/2015
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This classic country rock album by the Canadian songstress was co-produced by Justin Vernon of Bon Iver who also contributes instrumental and vocal backing. There’s a warm and mellow backwoods sound, no doubt nurtured by the recording setting in Vernon’s rustic Wisconsin studio hideaway. Recalling Joan Osborne and Neil Young, uplifting songs like ‘Mint’ evoke wide open American spaces with the wind in your hair. Co-written by Jim Bryson, the songwriting is consistently fine and hits a peak with the mountain and prairie imagery of the beautiful ‘Going To Hell’ and the languid delicacy of ‘For The Record’ - both elevating Voyageur to a new level.

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