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Concert Review: Kathleen Edwards, August 15, Sonic Boom

Posted on
16 Aug 2025
by
Paul

“Hi everybody. Well, what a strange thing.”

So said  Kathleen Edwards as she surveyed the crowd at Sonic Boom Records, all squeezed in between the aisles of vinyl for her in-store performance in advance of her upcoming album Billionaire, due out next week. Not the most conventional way to start a set, but it worked. And while it may have felt a bit strange, she did comment on how much she appreciates people still coming out to record stores and buying actual physical copies of albums. 

“I haven’t played most of these songs before in front of people so thank you for being very … gentle,” she said, and the crowd obliged, listening intently as Edwards ran through a mini-set composed mostly of tracks off the new Jason Isbell-produced album. Opening with “Little Pink Door,” Edwards set the tone with a warm melody and a lyric that seemed particularly apt for a record store performance, referencing an album given as a gift – or, as she more precisely sang, “I’m showing my age, it was a compact disc.”

Other highlights of the set included “Save Your Soul,” “Say Goodbye, Tell No One” and the title track off the album, a moving track inspired by the untimely death of a woman she knew.

While she may have started out the set commenting on what a “strange thing” this was, Edwards was relaxed and real throughout, and the new songs sounded strong – full of emotion and sharp, personal detail. If this short set was any indication, Billionaire is going to be a record well worth spending time with.

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