Gretchen Peters is one of the early 21st century's most treasured singer/songwriters. A member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, she's penned hits for dozens of country artists and is a world-renowned recording artist. Her catalog is full of self-penned jewels rendered in her unaffected alto;
Peters consistently delivers canny narratives of the human experience at its most vulnerable.
The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs of Mickey Newbury is an unexpected covers set.
Newbury's songs have been covered over 1,500 times by more than 1,200 artists, including
Ray Charles,
B.B. King,
Willie Nelson,
Linda Ronstadt,
Kenny Rogers, and
Vampire Weekend.
Newbury was a pioneer of psychedelic country and a die-cutter for Americana; he passed in 2002. (In addition to his songs, he brought fellow Texans
Townes Van Zandt and
Guy Clark to Nashville, and mentored
Kris Kristofferson.)