[ATTENDED: December 12, 2024] Kathleen Edwards
Back in 2019 I assumed that the concert in NYC was the only chance I’d get to see Kathleen Edwards. And now this is my fourth show.
Each time has had a different lineup, so even though the setlists are similar, the shows are very different.
The first time it was a five piece with two guitars (and a keyboard), bass and drums. The second time it was drums, bass, pedal steel guitar and violin/keyboard. So no lead guitar (all leads were on the pedal steel). For this third show there was no bass or drums. So, we had the same two “new” members from the show just a month earlier: Aaron Goldstein on pedal steel and Kinley Dowling who played keys and violin. And we were once again joined by Colin Cripps (her ex-husband). He played with her back in the old days and also when I saw her in NYC, but not a month earlier.
Tonight’s show was a trio with Gord Tough on guitar and Thom Hammerton on keys. It was also my first time at Roy’s Hall and the sound was fantastic (even Kathleen acknowledged how good it was).
There was no bass guitar but the low end was really deep from the keys, which was great. And even though I’ve been really loving drummers lately, this show didn’t need one.
Kathleen has released some covers lately (it seems like a covers album is coming out but she mentioned a new release in the new year instead). So she played John Prine’s Hello in There (a song she said made her cry when she heard it in her coffee shop) and Tom Petty’s Crawling Back to You.
Otherwise, she played most of the same songs, but the ordering was different. Indeed, Simple Math which opened the last two shows I saw wasn’t included.
I was thrilled that she played Chameleon/Comedian a song from Voyageur, my favorite album of hers, as I hadn’t seen her play it before. Indeed, this show had the most songs I hadn’t seen her play since the first time. (more…)
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