“I think great songs are born. They are born with all the urgency of childbirth, born out of pain, anger, joy, wit, and delivered by instinct, skill and love.” It is this passion for the song that fuels all facets of a career that has brought Peters to the Grammys twice as a songwriter, won her a CMA Song Of The Year award for the groundbreaking Independence Day, taken her on repeated sold-out tours across the UK and Ireland, and seen the release of five critically acclaimed albums...
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"This is Gretchen Peters' finest moment as a recording artist, and perhaps her finest as a song-lyric poet as well...it is here, in these grooves, that the strength and determination in her voice -- illustrated by musical accompaniment and production verging on brilliant -- carry these songs from the depths and the darkness of her private well into the open air to be kissed by the light...Burnt Toast & Offerings is the most sophisticated and truthful recording about love since Nick Cave's The Boatman's Call. It's not the next step for this contemporary singer and songwriter, but a giant leap, an aesthetic milestone that sets the bar higher not only for her but for anyone wishing to write songs honestly about the inside of a life in the process of being lived, a life that holds love as its zenith."
-Thom Jurek, Allmusic.com ****1/2 Go to the music section.
The Burnt Toast & Offerings tour continues, with upcoming dates including Spring Gulch Folk
Festival (Philadelphia area), Wolfeboro, NH and Fayetteville, AR, a special appearance of Wine, Women &
Song (Franklin, TN), and a return visit to the Swallow At The Hollow in
Roswell, GA. Just added: Glasgow, Scotland! Later in the summer Gretchen will be making an exclusive appearance at Perfect Earth Tours, a five-star "Eco Wilderness Spa Retreat" in Canada near White Horse (Yukon Territory). More dates to be announced soon in the US and Canada. Go to the tour section.
"Gretchen Peters (aided by co-producer Doug Lancio) has fashioned a wondrous, wrenching personal reflection on love. Setting her personal reflections to music and arrangements that have, at times, a spare beauty and, at others, a soaring but demure grandeur, Peters makes sure that nothing's overdone, despite the presence of orchestral elements, cooing pop background voices, and evocative instrumental flourishes courtesy of violins, violas, cellos, and clarinets. Peters...has a poet's eye for the telling detail. Deep and deeply beautiful, Burnt Toast & Offerings is a fully realized work of art."
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