Kathleen Edwards Gets Fresh: Canadian Singer-Songwriter Is Stoked About Music And Marriage the first words out of kathleen edwards' mouth explain her nickname: pottymouth. and she's only talking about the weather. 'There's some (expletive) crazy (expletive) going on,'' the canadian singer/songwriter says from her home in toronto. "it was hailing 20 minutes ago and now it's sunny.'' the 26-year-old, who plays tonight at the paradise, clearly is no shy, delicate flower. you can tell by the gallery of flinty females who populate her much-praised debut cd "failer'' and the tougher - and even better - follow-up, "back to me.'' does her four-letter-word-spouting exterior mask a sensitive artiste easily wounded by the rare, in her case, devastating review?  "it's one of those brutal things,'' edwards says, "where if you hear 10 positive things and one negative, you remember the negative. let's be honest. i'm doing something extremely personal. i'm putting myself out there and not everyone wants me to.  "i've come to the conclusion that it's better not to know so much about what's written about you,'' she says. 'The other day we did a show in london and it was great. the crowd response was amazing. then i read a review that said the show sucked. i was like, 'wow. if that show sucked, then the whole european tour was (expletive).'' another plus to ignoring reviews in edwards' case: she doesn't have to read over and over about how she sounds like alt-country goddess lucinda williams.  "yeah, those comparisons started on day one,'' she says. "i take it as a compliment. but it also feels lazy and not necessarily accurate. what's frustrating is the notion that she's somebody i'm trying to emulate. my influences are more people like tom petty and neil young and talk talk and elvis and roy orbison and dusty springfield.'' especially tom petty. edwards was as giddy as a schoolgirl with a crush to get benmont tench of petty's heartbreakers to play keyboards on "back to me,'' and petty's engineer, jim scott, to mix the cd. but the big factor in the harder, electric guitar-powered sound of "back to me'' was colin cripp, her producer, guitarist and new husband. "i'm not writing any differently,'' edwards says, "but i think the arrangements are a lot more roots-rock than folk-rock now.'' edwards' has trained her lyrical focus on difficult relationships - at least until now. "in state,'' the first track on "back to me,'' is a pulp romance about a crook on the run and his unhappy moll. on the cd's title cut, a woman threatens her wandering lover in such assertive terms that one critic interpreted it - to edwards' dismay - as depicting "female-on-male drug rape.'' what will a happily married edwards write about now?  "i won't lie,'' she says. "it's been a little difficult for me writing while being in a happy relationship. but it's a challenge. i want to show that i have more potential as a songwriter than someone who hooked up and broke up and wrote about it in a clever way.'' and, edwards notes, marrying your producer/guitar player offers definite professional advantages.  "i get colin at a much better rate now that we're married,'' she says. "he's much more affordable now. that's a fantastic upside. otherwise i would have had to replace him a long time ago.'' she laughs. "really, i think touring together is the best of both worlds. we get to be together doing what we both love. it's fun. but i'm also a homebody. cleaning house is the most exotic thing in the world now. so i'm looking forward to when we finally get some time to be at home together. but if tom petty calls and wants me to open for him in august when we have our month off, i'm there.' larry katz bostonherald.com				Album reviews Feature articles Interviews Show reviews