Gretchen Peters – Dancing with the Beast (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 50:04 minutes | 533 MB | Genre: Country, Singer-Songwriter
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Dancing with the Beast, the new album from Gretchen Peters, puts female characters at the fore, from teenage girls to old women. And intentionally so. With the 2017 Women’s March and the #MeToo Movement as bookends to her writing time, Peters knew that a feminist perspective would be the critical core of the record. She admits, “You can trace the feminist DNA in my songwriting back to ‘Independence Day’ and probably before. The thing that 2017 did is just put it front and center.” Though Peters doesn’t consider herself a political writer, she is politically minded and, therefore, knew she had to address the 2016 election and all that has happened since… but in her own way.
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Gretchen Peters – The Show: Live from the UK (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:35:29 minutes | 1004 MB | Genre: Country, Folk, Americana, Female Vocal
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2022 marks the 25th year since US singer-songwriter Gretchen Peters first set foot on a UK stage and she is celebrating the anniversary in style with the release of a live album recorded during a 2019 UK tour with her band and an all-female Scottish string quartet. The Show: Live from the UK is a beautifully presented set featuring a hardback cover and a collection of evocative live photographs documenting the concerts at which the recordings took place. CD 1 captures 10 tracks Gretchen and her band performed with the string quartet and CD 2 highlights 8 tracks from Gretchen and her band.
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