My thanks to Americana UK for shining a light on a song that has been so important to me. Believe it or not, I wasn’t sure it would work on the Hello Cruel World album at first. I can’t even ...
https://gretchenpeters.com/2024/02/for-the-sake-of-the-song-gretchen-peters-five-minutes/
I enjoyed doing The Other 22 Hours podcast immensely. What a wonderful thing to be able to talk about some of the less frequently discussed aspects of the creative life – the other 22 hours bes...
https://gretchenpeters.com/2023/12/the-other-22-hours-podcast/
“From the opening song, the moving murder ballad “Blackbirds” (the body count at Gretchen’s shows is generally pretty high!) to the closer (an impromptu, solo acoustic rendition of “L...
“Neither singer nor audience wanted the evening to end, and Peters delivered an utterly enthralling show. She was backed by a trio of fine musicians, including her pianist husband Barry Walsh, ...
“An obvious leaning towards some of the newer material represents the prime evolution of Gretchen Peters’ songwriting. A skill that fermented like the finest old world wine. Of course there w...
“What followed was spellbinding, The Matador was haunting; All You Got Is a Hammer was punchier than usual with Barry giving us some unexpectedly Jazzy flourishes on the piano. Although I gave ...
https://gretchenpeters.com/2023/05/gretchen-peters-kim-richey-at-sage-gateshead-live-review/
From Americana UK: Back on the 12th August 2022 I opened an e-mail from Gretchen Peters as many would have done across the country that morning with the single word headline ‘Announcement’. I...
https://gretchenpeters.com/2023/04/essentials-the-top-10-gretchen-peters-songs-americana-uk/
New for 2023: all CDs at my web store* are now available for $5. Not a sale! This is the new, permanent regular price. Some of you may stream your music for convenience but still collect CDs; hop...
https://gretchenpeters.com/2023/01/all-cds-at-gretchenpeters-com-now-5/
“I willingly got on that hamster wheel and didn’t get off for 15, 20 years,” she says “That’s where the burnout was coming in. I started to ask myself, why is the next step to make anot...
https://gretchenpeters.com/2022/09/in-conversation-gretchen-peters-holler-country-music-feature/
“A theme arose in the last few songs that reflected on running down in one way or another – with ‘Lay Low‘ introduced as having taken on a new meaning for it’s author recently, with the...