Gretchen Peters
Website:
https://www.gretchenpeters.com/
Discography:
2018 - Dancing With the Beast
2015 - Blackbirds
2013 - Woman on the Wheel: Live From the Hello Cruel World Tour, 2012
2012 - Hello Cruel World
2009 - Circus Girl: The Best of Gretchen Peters
2009 - One to the Heart, One to the Head (w/Tom Russell)
2008 - Northern Lights
2007 - Burnt Toast & Offerings
2006 - Trio: Recorded Live
2004 - Halcyon
2001 - Gretchen Peters
1996 - The Secret Life
| First, the bona fides: Nashville-based singer and songwriter Gretchen Peters' songs have been recorded by Etta James, Faith Hill and Brian Adams, among others; her song "Independence Day" was a massive hit for Martina McBride in 1993; and she was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014.While her words are often interpreted by other artists, you'll hear in this set that Peters is a gripping performer herself. "I have a theory that there are two kinds of people — there's people who find sad songs depressing," she notes with a wink, "then there's us."In her fifth performance on Mountain Stage since 1996, Peters is accompanied by her husband Barry Walsh on piano and by members of the Mountain Stage Band — Steve Hill on bass, Ammed Solomon on drums and Michael Lipton on electric guitar.Peters' latest, Dancing with the Beast, is filled with compelling, honest songwriting, exhibiting an ability to deeply inhabit characters and convey delicate scenarios, like the vulnerable family in "Wichita" or the mother in "Disappearing Act" (a song we didn't have time for on the radio broadcast).Gretchen Peters was born November 14, 1957 in Bronxville, New York, but raised in Boulder, Colorado. She now lives in Nashville. She has written songs forfound work as a songwriter, composing hits for Martina McBride, Etta James, Trisha Yearwood, Patty Loveless, George Strait, Anne Murray, Shania Twain, Neil Diamond and co-written songs with Bryan Adams. Her own work has earned her many awards and she was inducted to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame on October 5, 2014.
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