Voyageur by Kathleen Edwards

Voyageur, Kathleen Edwards' fourth studio album, came out on January 17, 2012, a record that finds the Canadian singer-songwriter opening her doors wide. She produced it with Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, and the guest list tells you how wide she was casting: Norah Jones, Francis and the Lights, the Good Lovelies, Stornoway, John Roderick, Megafaun's Phil Cook, S. Carey and Afie Jurvanen all turn up alongside her regular band.

The songs, "Change the Sheets" among them, put her songwriting up front with all that company filling in the corners. It became her first album to reach the US top 40, peaking at number 39 on the Billboard 200, and her first top-ten album at home, where it got to number two. The Polaris Music Prize put it on its 2012 shortlist of ten.

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