Peters streams concert to mark greatest hits release
Fans can catch the show at www.therutledgelmv.com and click "Live Stream" to watch the show at 2 p.m. central Saturday, Aug. 8. Peters will accept requests via email and Twitter and will introduce memorabilia items that she will be auctioning off on eBay to benefit KIPP Academy Nashville, one of 66 KIPP public charter schools nationwide serving educationally under-served students. The concert at the Rutledge in Nashville is free and open to the public. The auction will begin on eBay immediately following the concert.
In addition to having penned some of today's best known songs (Martina McBride's Independence Day and Faith Hill's The Secret of Life) Peters has released seven solo albums.
Following a UK and European release of the collection in May, Scarlet Letter Records is releasing a numbered, limited-edition collector's set of "Circus Girl" that includes an expanded booklet and a second disc of live songs, demos, outtakes and other rarities. Among the memorabilia items that Peters is offering at auction are handwritten lyric sheets to some of her biggest hits including The Secret of Life and Independence Day, sheet music and backstage passes. Many of the items are signed by Peters and other artists who have had hits with her songs including Faith Hill, Martina McBride, Randy Travis and Pam Tillis.
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CD reviews for Gretchen Peters
Gretchen Peters' tribute to Mickey Newbury is a 12-song labor of love, which makes the strong case to never forget the works of this songwriting master. Peters, who has said her mother initially turned her on to Newbury's music, dedicates this album to her mom because she "loved Mickey's sad songs almost more than mine."
With that said, though, not all these songs are particularly sad. One of Newbury's most famous songs is "Just Dropped In (To See What ...
Informed by the renewed strength of today's woman's movement, particularly in light of recent cultural social and political upheavals, Gretchen Peters' "Dancing With the Beast" finds her sharing stories about loss, struggle, upheaval, tragedy and turmoil in ways that resonate with a common bond, though told from a woman's perspective. It's a powerful set of songs, mostly echoing a downcast perspective, but each comes across with both enlightenment and emotion, ...
Like many artists, Gretchen Peters turned to music in a time of pain for her eighth studio release, "Blackbirds." This 11-track collection is a graceful, yet unsubtle take on aging and mortality that is often dark and even unsettling. Black crows witness a murder amidst kerosene and fire in the title cut, and elsewhere, there are odes to the BP oil spill and the Nashville flood.
During the summer of 2013, when Peters began writing songs for "Blackbirds, I attended three ...
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