Having been inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall Of Fame last year, Gretchen Peters could be forgiven for deciding to take some time off and rest on her laurels. Instead she has recruited a host of musical friends and recorded an album which builds on 2012’s impressive Hello Cruel World. Despite the roll call of roots luminaries such as Jerry Douglas, Jason Isbell, Jimmy LaFave, Will Kimbrough, Kim Richey and Suzy Bogguss it is the songbird Peters herself who steals the show.

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