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Gretchen Peters on CD
Gretchen Peters' musical career has grown like a Virginia creeper: new leaves spreading in one direction first, then another, then another still. The result is lush and impressive, though it didn't get that way all at once. Peters has the sort of creative impulse that inevitably finds the fertile spots, which is a wonderful thing from the standpoints of quality and longevity, even if it can be a little unpredictable. Circus Girl: The Best of Gretchen Peters is a welcome chance, then, to retrace how her songs have grown-and keep growing-from their roots in her singular storytelling gifts. In other words, it's a chance to take in the full effect thus far. Says Peters of the collection's 15 carefully selected songs, "What I was amazed by was that there was a continuity to them, that they hung together, all of them, from these disparate times." Indeed, they do. Peters arrived in Nashville in the late '80s, a singing, songwriting product of New York, Boulder, Colorado and politically active parents. Perplexed by the artificial division of labor in the commercial country music industry, she concluded it would be best to seek a publishing deal first. "I didn't understand the whole delineation between singer and songwriter," she explains. "Everybody that I knew was a singer/songwriter, did it all. I couldn't really conceive of myself in any other light." And so began a season of striking commercial success. Peters got a publishing deal, and her closely observed story-songs hit a sweet spot with some of mainstream country's finest voices of the '90s; "On a Bus to St. Cloud" with Trisha Yearwood, "You Don't Even Know Who I Am" with Patty Loveless, "Chill of an Early Fall" with George Strait, "Let That Pony Run" with Pam Tillis and-most famously-"Independence Day" with Martina McBride. Culturally and critically the impact of "Independence Day"-an arresting song about an abused woman fighting back-still reverberates. It earned Peters a GRAMMY nomination and CMA Song of the Year honors. "It just seemed like getting the first olive out of the jar, they just started coming," Peters says of her string of cuts. "And it was great, but it wasn't really my master plan or anything. I was just as surprised as anybody." A turning point came in the mid-'90s, when Peters got a record deal and the chance to record her own songs exactly as she felt they ought to be done. In 1996 (The Secret of Life) and every few years after (Gretchen Peters in 2001 and Halcyon in 2004) she offered a set of sophisticated folk-pop songs, sung in a fetching soprano that's as sultry as it is girlish, and rendered with the sensitivity and patience to tease out the nuance in every corner of a story. If commercial country audiences didn't quite know how to categorize Peters' music, U.K. audiences fell in love immediately. Her shows have sold out there ever since. "From the first time I went over there to play, the audiences were so great," she recalls. "They just didn't hold those rigid ideas of what you were supposed to be, and to me that felt like blessed relief. It was almost as though my limitations were my blessings over there." Midway through the 2000s, Peters' career arrived at a series of watershed moments. Veteran folk singer/songwriter Tom Russell declared himself a fan, inviting her to sing on his recordings-and, eventually, to do an album of cowboy and Western covers together (2009's One to the Heart, One to the Head)-and introducing her to the lively circuit of folk clubs and festivals across the U.S. She found a welcoming home there, even though some of the older songs in her repertoire had been hits in commercial country, about as alien a world from the folk scene as is imaginable. "With a certain folk crowd, that's not a plus," Peters says. "But what I figured out is they're songs. If you play them for people, especially if you play them in the context that I do-which is just me or it's just me and [keyboardist] Barry [Walsh]-they lose the affectation of the genre, whatever that might be, and they just are." She realized, finally, that performing her songs live at every opportunity is just as vital to her as writing and recording them: "I could see that life was short, careers are even shorter, mine is finite. I have some time, while I still feel like I want to be out there doing it. By god, I'm not going to wait anymore. And that was that." Now she's touring more than ever before-and relishing it. And there were more bold steps where those came from. Peters has always shown an uncanny ability to capture the stories of people-especially women-who feel trapped in hope-draining situations. With her 2007 album, Burnt Toast & Offerings, she mined her own life-the disintegration of her twenty-year marriage and risk-taking on a new love-for just such affecting vignettes, and set a new high watermark for her songwriting. It's only right, then, that Circus Girl would feature works from each of these seasons; "On a Bus to St. Cloud" and "When You Are Old" from The Secret of Life, "In a Perfect World" and "Picasso and Me" from Gretchen Peters, "Tomorrow Morning" and "The Aviator's Song" from Halcyon, "They Way You Move Me" and "This Town" from Burnt Toast & Offerings. And it's fitting, too, that "Circus Girl"-a personal favorite from her first album, about the circus, the music industry, and the girl inside who's driven to entertain-would be the title track. "When you write a song like that, it could be ten years before you realize what that third level is," Peters muses. "That's the kind of song that has some ambiguity and some places that it will take you long, long after you first hear it." Praise for 'Gretchen Peters': ... If Peters' '96 debut, The Secret of Life, had the answers, her edgier follow-up poses the questions, mostly about how to navigate rough emotional terrain. Full of surprises - 'Eddie's First Wife' has a randy lesbian at it's center - Peters brings the pop sensibility of Sheryl Crow to meditations on Amelia Earhart and Picasso's cat. Easy to see why she's already captured the Brits. B+ -Entertainment Weekly Rarely has a singer/songwriter had a better showcase than 'Gretchen Peters,' and she has mostly herself to thank for it. The lovely, leisurely paced album finds Peters co-producing; singing all the harmonies; and playing many of the instruments, including electric sitar and six-string bass. Peters displays a keen, off hand observational sense - she's a Sheryl Crow worth, well, crowing about - on the likes of 'Love and Texaco' and the sly tale of 'Eddie's First Wife,' who takes up with someone just like the girl who married dear old dad. Even more remarkable, her singing is so winning, she manages to top even Patty Loveless' earlier version of her exquisite 'Like Water Into Wine.' - San Diego Tribune ...her own girlish Alice-In-Wonderland instrument provides an ideal guide for exploring her picturesque scenarios and exotic characters. There's no filler or empty clichés here. Peters' every line seems weighed and considered with a master jeweler's squinting precision, her best songs imbuing the sweat and confusion of everyday lives with the serenity of the blessed. - Music Row Magazine ...the genre hardly matters when you have such penetrating material. From the soulfully romantic 'Like Water Into Wine' to the jazzy, provocative 'Eddie's First Wife,' Ms. Peters' musical vignettes explore life's gray areas with honest eloquence. - Dallas Morning News ...Peters' voice, sweet with a hint of weariness, is front and center, making the honesty of her words all the more sharp. These are unforgettable songs that deserve as much attention as the chart-toppers that Peters created for other artists. - Boulder (CO) Daily Camera Gretchen was nominated in 2003 for a Golden Globe award for her work on the DreamWorks animated film, "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron", and her multi-award winning 'Independence Day' was recently included in CMT's list of The Top 100 Greatest Songs in Country Music. She was named Folkwax magazine's 'Artist Of The Year' in 2008.