"Change The Sheets," Kathleen Edwards

From her new album, Voyageur. Review here.

Now, "Voyageur"

You can and should listen to Canadian folkie Kathleen Edwards' upcoming album, Voyageur, for free at NPR. It doesn't rock quite as steady as her earlier records; it's more spacious, atmospheric, and, frankly, commercial. Here's hoping it breaks big, as she deserves.

Movie Songs: "Summerlong" (2005)

Kathleen Edwards

While the song was used in the underrated 2005 film "Elizabethtown," written and directed by Cameron Crowe, this video was edited by isamichelle89. Much of the action is set in the Brown Hotel in Louisville, where Kathy and I attended the reception following the 2001 wedding of The New Nixon's Robert Nedelkoff to his beloved Rene. Member of a notable Louisville-area family, Robert is the spitting image of Jed Reese, who plays Chuck Hasbro, whose wedding party, like the Nedelkoffs' in real life, is staying in the Brown Hotel.

What "No Depression" Is Spinning This Week

Perfect Songs: "We'll Sweep Out The Ashes In the Morning" (1969)

Joe Doe and Kathleen Edwards (written by Gram Parsons)

Plus Middle-Of-The-Roadhouse Music

Kathleen Edwards

Moderate, equivocal Republicanism, unsatisfactory to progressives and Reagan conservatives alike. Via media theology, appalling to Rome and most evangelical Protestants. The third leg of the Episconixonian stool is American roots music, sometimes called alt.-country.

Think "No Depression" and "Paste" (God love 'em both). Think Ryan Adams and other caught-in-the-middle artists. I share a love of the stuff with a far more knowledgeable aficionado, The New Nixon's Frank Gannon.

My musical bit on TNN is a weekly "perfect song." Ear of the behearer, I realize. Ottawa's Kathleen Edwards, a classical violinist-turned-troubadour, first released "In State," about a woman who decides that she doesn't like bad boys after all, in 2005. If that opening progression doesn't get in your head, this isn't the music for you. But I'll bet it is!