Recent Songwriters Hall Of Fame inductee Gretchen Peters has confirmed the February 10 release of her new album Blackbirds. The album is co-produced with with Doug Lancio and Bary Walsh and recorded in Nashville, and features songs co-written by Peters with frequent touring partner Ben Glover. Special guests appearing on the album include Jerry Douglas, Jason Isbell, Jimmy LaFave, Will Kimbrough, Kim Richey, Suzy Bogguss and more.
"During the summer of 2013 when I began writing songs for 'Blackbirds,' there was one week when I went to three memorial services and a wedding," remembers Peters. "It dawned on me that this is the way it goes as you get older - the memorial services start coming with alarming frequency and the weddings are infrequent and thus somehow more moving."
This caused Peters to become drawn to music addressing themes of aging and mortality, but found that such material rarely came from a female perspective. "As brave an artistic risk as it may be for a man, it’s much riskier for a woman to speak about it," says Peters. "Aging seems to be a taboo subject for female singer-songwriters, in part because our value has depended so much on our youth and sexuality. I want to write about that stuff because it’s real, it’s there, and so few women seem to be talking about it."
Gretchen Peters Blackbirds track listing:
1. Blackbirds
2. Pretty Things
3. When All You Got Is A Hammer
4. Everything Falls Away
5. The House on Auburn Street
6. When You Comin’ Home
7. Jubilee
8. Black Ribbons
9. Nashville
10. The Cure For The Pain
11. Blackbirds (reprise)
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