Gretchen Peters performs music for grownups. Folk who like singer songwriters like Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Tori Amos. You know the smart stuff.
Plus she has a great "lived in" voice. Gretchen hails from Nashville, TN. Although originally from Bronxville, New York.
Listen to these three songs, and then tell me why you aren't out there looking for her wonderful album, Hello Cruel World. I know it's real early days yet, but I foresee this among my favorite albums of 2012.
Hello Cruel World
The Matador
Saint Francis
The title of Gretchen Peters’ new Hello Cruel World is a pun on the famed exit line — a joke that, like the lovely melodies and deliciously textured arrangements framing these 11 songs — sweetens this captivating music spun from a year of turmoil. The Grammy nominated singer-songwriter from Nashville calls Hello Cruel World her “most close-to-the-bone work, written at a time when I felt absolutely fearless about telling the truth.” Peters and her guest Rodney Crowell sing, “life is still a beautiful disaster,” on “Dark Angel.” But Peters keeps the accent on the “beautiful” throughout her ninth disc, with both her poetic language and the spare, evocative sounds she created in the studio to support her organic story-telling.
