Gretchen Peters - Blackbirds (2015) {Scarlet Letter Records}
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Americana / Folk / World / Country
Songwriter
Gretchen Peters is a go-to for artists seeking material whose lyric
depth matches its hooks. She continually goes into the marrow, revealing
secrets that result in defining decisions and cathartic actions. This
is especially true of her own recordings and Blackbirds takes these to
an entirely new level, one shared with peers like Mickey Newbury (It
Looks Like Rain) and Bruce Springsteen (Nebraska). Here she explores
mortality with an unflinching gaze through a variety of unique character
perspectives and musical styles. The album was co-produced by the
artist with keyboardist Barry Walsh and guitarist Doug Lancio (bassist
Dave Roe and drummer Nick Buda round out the band's core). The title is a
murder ballad onbe of three tunes co-written with Ben Glover.
Lancio's grimy,
distorted guitar recalls Neil Young's with Crazy Horse. Walsh's organ
and guest Will Kimbrough's slide mandola color a brooding narrative that
explodes in an unrepentant chorus and startling conclusion. "When All
You Got Is a Hammer" is a rocker with Kimbrough tempering the tension
with his charango. Jerry Douglas adds dobro and Jason Isbell a backing
vocal, in a chilling tale about a war veteran unable to cope: "Well they
show you how to shoot and they show you how to kill/But they don't show
what to do with this hole you can't fill…" Poignancy is equally
resonant on songs with gentler approaches. "The House on Auburn Street"
-- with Kim Richey on backing vocals -- is a lilting tome to an absent
friend. It frames the irony of suburban America as the mirror for
darkness, addiction, and violence. The roaming Americana in "When You
Comin' Home," a duet with Jimmy LaFave, is a narrative about lovers
separated due to one's slavery to street life and substance abuse. On
"Jubilee," Peters sings country gospel accompanied only by Walsh's piano
and David Henry's cello. Her protagonist accepts death as the spirit,
freed from the body's prison can to return to the love from whence it
came. "Black Ribbons," a brooding Cajun-tinged folk-blues, evolves into a
roiling rocker. Pump organ, accordion, electric guitars, banjo, and
drums frame the a protagonist saying a dark and helpless, despairing
goodbye to his wife in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The lone
cover here, David Mead's tender but steely "Nashville," is about another
kind of death -- a relationship's. "The Cure for the Pain" is set in a
hospital room during the waning moments of life. Peters' protagonist
experiences angerat her plight yet moves toward acceptance and the peace
it brings. While it would be a fitting conclusion, Peters, a Nashville
Songwriter's Hall of Famer, knows that life is messy. The title song is
reprised with a different arrangement as a bookend. Blackbirds is dark
and unsettling, but it's far from depressing. It is a profound, poetic,
career-defining album from a singer and songwriter of the highest order. |
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tracklist:
01 - Blackbirds
02 - Pretty Things
03 - When All You Got Is a Hammer
04 - Everything Falls Away
05 - The House on Auburn Street
06 - When You Comin' Home (Featuring Jimm LaFave)
07 - Jubilee
08 - Black Ribbons
09 - Nashville
10 - The Cure for the Pain
11 - Blackbirds (Reprise)
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