Gretchen Peters - Hello Cruel World
Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 11:08AM
Gretchen Peters - Starting out as a folk/pop performer in Boulder, Colorado, the Nashville-based singer/songwriter has turned out big hits for others (including the Grammy-winning "Independence Day") as well as a series of exquisite solo albums including her last, the 2007 masterpiece Burnt Toast and Offerings...new project arrives after a period of emotional highs and lows, making Peters "rethink what is real" and inspiring an album she describes as "dark...close to the bone...fearless...brutally honest" // Release: Hello Cruel World (January 31) // Sounds like: Co-produced by husband/musical partner Barry Walsh and guitarist Doug Lancio (John Hiatt), World also features the rhythm sections for Robert Plant's Band of Joy and the vocals of Rodney Crowell and Kim Richey...spare and sleek instrumentation and Peters' smoke-and-honey voice add warmth to songs of desperation, pain and, ultimately, hope...(watch the EPK and videos after the jump)
Gretchen Peters - "St. Francis" (from Hello Cruel World)
Gretchen Peters - "Dark Angel" (w/ Rodney Crowell) (from Hello Cruel World)
Buy a signed copy of Hello Cruel World directly from the artist here...