GRETCHEN PETERS GRETCHEN PETERS NEW CD

Description: Additional Information from InnerSleeve Product Description Personnel: Gretchen Peters (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, mandolin, keyboards, synthesizers, bass); Mike Severs (acoustic & electric guitars, dobro); Caitlin Daniel (electric guitar); Green Daniel (violin, accordion, piano, keyboards, synthesizers, percussion); Conni Ellisor, Pamela Sixfin, David Davidson, Lee Larrison, Mary Kathryn Vanosdale, Alan Umstead, Jim Grosjean, Monisa Angell, Robert Mason (strings); Steve Conn (accordion); Mike Haynes (trumpet, flugelhorn); Barry Green (trombone); Barry Walsh (piano, Hammond B-3 organ, synthesizers); Dave Pomeroy (acoustic & electric basses); Dave Francis (acoustic bass); Brian Barnett, John Gardner (drums, percussion); Bryan Adams (background vocals). Engineers: Bart Pursley, David Pinkston, Chris Potter. Recorded at The Sturga, Sumner County, Tennessee; Warehouse Studios, Vancouver, Canada; Boomtown Recorders and Sony/Tree Studios, Nashville, Texas. Chart-topping country songwriter Gretchen Peters filled her own debut album, The Secret of Life, with guest performances by friends in high places such as Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, and Raul Malo. While the songs were strong, the performances only served to overshadow Peters' true strength: it lay in her own voice singing her songs. On her self-titled sophomore effort, she and producer Green Daniel play it closer to the vest in terms of personnel, while offering a far more adventurous sampling of Peters' wares. Bryan Adams makes a backing vocal appearance, but his is the only name that folks outside the Nash Vegas studio system would be familiar with. Peters stacks her band with veterans, such as longtime keyboard ace Barry Walsh, organist Steve Conn, and guitarist Michael Severs, and she and Daniel handle most of the rest aside from horns and strings. The songs range from the stellar opener, "Souvenirs," with its laid-back hand percussion and Caribbean feel, to rootsy alterna-country like "In a Better World," moody ballads like "Love and Texaco," the truly beautiful and moving "Amelia and Me," the midtempo, lushly orchestrated "Like Water into Wine," and the truly enigmatic "Picasso and Me," which could have been covered by Rickie Lee Jones in her beat days. This is a musical autobiography, a concept recording about coming of age, bittersweet memories, and the haunting of a life with old ghosts. While it didn't even grace the country Top 100, it doesn't matter. Peters, simply because of her songwriting skill (just ask Martina McBride, Patty Loveless, and Trisha Yearwood, to name three artists who've scored number ones with Peters' tunes), deserves to be taken seriously as an artist, one who helped to shape contemporary country while playing both sides of the studio system fence without making any sort of artistic compromise. Her 2007 record Burnt Toast & Offerings was the delivery of the promise on her earlier records, of which this one particularly stands out as a work of real art. ~ Thom Jurek About InnerSleeve We offer unbeatable prices, quick shipping times and a wide selection of vinyl. Purchases come with a 30-day Satisfaction Guarantee (minus Shipping & Handling fees) on all unopened products. All items are from licensed Distributors. We do not deal with any Bootleg or Used items!

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