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peters, gretchen – hello cruel world (33rpm lp)
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26,78EUR

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MEDIUM Vinyl Record
WEIGHT 180gr 33rpm
CONDITION sealed
CONDITION RECORD M mint
COVER Gatefold
CONDITION COVER M mint
COVER DAMAGES No, we take care about that
SERIALNUMBER No
LIMITED Yes
MISCELLANEOUS Stereo
MUSICIAN HOMEPAGE http://www.gretchenpeters.com

MUSICIANS

Kim Richey – background vocals
Barry Walsh - organ, background vocals, fender rhodes, hammond b3, accordion, piano
Chris Carmichael - violin, viola
Gretchen Peters – acoustic guitar, piano, vocals
Vinnie Ciesielski - trumpet
David Henry - cello
Will Kimbrough – acoustic guitar, banjo, bouzouki, electric guitar, 12 string guitar
Marco Giovino - drums
John Gardner - drums, tambourine, shaker, bodhran
Byron House - bass
Viktor Krauss – upright bass
Doug Lancio – acoustic guitar, vihuela, baritone guitar, 12 string guitar, electric guitar
Rodney Crowell - vocals

TRACKS

hello cruel world - 4:24
saint francis - 4:53
the matador - 4:18
dark angel - 3:43
paradise found - 4:49
woman on the wheel - 5:00
five minutes - 4:59
camille - 4:54
natural disaster - 4:49
idlewild - 5:32
little world - 4:46

REVIEW

Gretchen Peters was born in New York and raised in Boulder, Colorado, but moved to Nashville in the late 1980s

There, she found work as a songwriter, composing hits for Martina McBride, Etta James, Trisha Yearwood, Patty Loveless, George Strait

As well as for rock singers Neil Diamond and co-writing songs with Bryan Adams

She also won the Country Music Association Song Of The Year award for McBride's "Independence Day" in 1995

The title of Gretchen Peters’ new "Hello Cruel World" is a pun on the famed exit line

A joke that, like the lovely melodies and deliciously textured arrangements framing these 11 songs — sweetens this captivating music spun from a year of turmoil

The Grammy nominated singer-songwriter from Nashville calls "Hello Cruel World" her »most close-to-the-bone work

Written at a time when I felt absolutely fearless about telling the truth«

Ultimately "Hello Cruel World" details the sheer triumph of survival and of finding strength

Joy and growth in everyday life despite the challenges of our increasingly complex times

Her characters, like the broken-hearted narrator of “Natural Disaster” and the human target of “Woman On the Wheel”, don’t just search for fulfilment

They take risks to find it

And none, as the album’s title implies, are ready to either surrender or, to quote the poet Dylan Thomas

»go gentle into that good night«

Peters’ warm honey voice softens the edge of desperation in numbers like the character study “Camille”, where a gently blown muted trumpet offers shadings of cool jazz

And in “The Matador” the earthy maturity of her phrasing injects empathy

A quality that makes all of Peters’ songs ring consistently true — into a tale about the dark underbelly of love

Peters says creating Hello Cruel World »was like coming home after a long trip, unlocking the front door and putting my baggage down

Telling these stories was part of the process of stripping myself bare of all the lies, half truths, false selves and misguided intentions we take on in the course of living

After the trials of the past year I felt raw, open

I wanted to write songs that hurt

I wanted to write songs that were brutally honest

I knew it would be a dark album, and I knew it might be off-putting for some

But I felt I had survived the battering of both the natural world and my own interior one for a reason«

RECORDING 2012
ENGINEER Chad Brown, Doug Lancio
RE MASTERING --
RELEASED May 2012
AVERAGE RATING 4 Stars out of 5
PRESSING Excellent by Pallas Germany
SOUND Excellent
MADE IN Germany / England
STYLE Pop / Country Folk
AVAILABLE as long as inventory

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This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 03 May, 2012.