Konsertrecension: Gretchen Peters country will be a literary evening

Gretchen Peters has a good voice, is a good storyteller and a more than excellent songwriter. As such, she has lived the good in Nashville since she moved there in the 80's. She has delivered hits for, among others, Shania Twain and Trisha Yearwood and in many years, has written together with Bryan Adams. But her own records sell modestly, and she has no big streamingsiffror to boast of.

The stark reason of course is that she never managed to look like a countrystjärna to do; not enough young, not conventionally nifty enough, not possible to package commercially.

it is as It is with the thing.

on her for a while, I think she would prefer this position, for it gives a freedom to tell other stories about the country she comes from and to take a stand for that which is good. Even if not done violence on himself as a songwriter, there is another weight in the songs she writes for herself.

Just as when she was last in Stockholm, eighteen years ago, accompanied by Barry Walsh on piano and accordion. When they were married to other people, but after that tour, they got married with each other instead.

" That's what proximity can do, kidding, she, and it is obvious that the close proximity also exists on the musical planet. They are very attuned and the atmosphere in the venue is so safe that it almost only can be the company of american traditionsmusiker.

She has a great directory to retrieve the songs from it, but many will, for natural reasons, from the latest ”Dancing with the beast”. As it låtskrivarproffs she is, she writes often from a fictional character perspective, and from the whole flows a chorus of voices and experiences.

nedkokta short stories, like ”The boy from Rye” on the first tonårsförälskelsen, or the more contemporary and apocalyptic ”Lowlands” of the united states after Trump.

I had wanted to avoid the 'allsången' to Jagger/Richards old ”Wild horses” toward the end, and his solo performance on the piano was not so fun, but on the whole, similar to the concert, more a sort of literary evening. The characters and the stories will live on in your head when the music stopped.

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