Canadian singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards is only 24, but on her striking debut album, Failer (Zoe), she demonstrates an eye for detail that can only improve with age. In “Westby” the virginal ...

With her car wheels on Lucinda Williams’ gravel road following Steve Earle to Guitar Town, Kathleen Edwards’ debut has a backseat full of drinking songs, but not in an I’ve-got-friends-in-low-places ...