From Billboard:

“Acclaimed singer-songwriter Gretchen Peters returns with a new album, Blackbirds, on Feb. 10, and she is feeling the itch to get out and perform the new material for her fans.

“It’s always exciting to have new music coming out because it means we will get to go out and play these songs in front of an audience,” she says. “I wrote most of these songs in a flurry, and I did a lot of co-writing — a lot more than I ever had done before…”

To read the story in its entirety and see the lyric video for “Pretty Things” from Blackbirds, visit Billboard.com.