Gretchen Peters - The Essential Gretchen Peters (2016)

The Essential Gretchen Peters is a double album which includes both a retrospective of Peters' best work chosen from a 20 year recording career, and rarities never before released. Disc One features a handpicked selection of tracks from past releases, plus brand new recordings of two of Peters' best loved songs: "On A Bus To St. Cloud", and "When You Love Someone", here performed as a duet with cowriter Bryan Adams. Disc Two contains rare tracks, many never before released, which illuminate Peters' songwriting and recording journey since 1996, and will delight both the completist and the diehard fan. The early work tape for her song "Five Minutes"; a live, full band version of "Woman On The Wheel"; an unreleased performance of the Ben Bullington song "Ring Around The Moon", performed by Peters and husband/coproducer/pianist Barry Walsh; and an unreleased work tape of "Blackbirds", sung as a duet by cowriter Ben Glover are just a few of the highlights on Disc Two. With liner notes written by esteemed rock critic and Bruce Springsteen biographer Dave Marsh, The Essential Gretchen Peters is just that - an essential piece of work from a fearless and creative singer-songwriter.

TRACKLIST

01. Blackbirds
02. The Aviator's Song
03. The Secret of Life
04. If Heaven
05. When All You Got Is a Hammer
06. On a Bus to St. Cloud
07. The Matador
08. Sunday Morning (Up and Down My Street)
09. Guadalupe
10. Hello Cruel World
11. When You Love Someone
12. Five Minutes
13. When You Are Old
14. The Way You Move Me (Demo)
15. Ring Around the Moon (Previously Unreleased)
16. Pretty Things (Radio Edit)
17. The Cruel Mother
18. Woman on the Wheel (Live)
19. When You Wish Upon a Star
20. I Saw Your Light
21. Love
22. The Chill of an Early Fall (Demo)
23. Independence Day (Acoustic Version)
24. Wild Horses
25. The Answer (Work Tape)
26. Blackbirds (Work Tape)
27. Five Minutes (Work Tape)