Gretchen Peters with special guest Kim Richey The Queen’s Hall Edinburgh (live review)

…with a new album just out, a lot of the material in this set came from it, and there are explorations here into hauntingly beautiful melodies like “The Boy From Rye” alongside  explorations into the darker realms of the psychological control of someone and the sense of self blame, worthlessness, and insecurity that the skilful abuser can inflict on their victim in the album’s title track “Dancing With the Beast”.  This album simply is full of so many skilfully crafted songs and “Arguing With Ghosts” and “Truckstop Angel” are a few more from this set that clearly show Gretchen Peters to be one of the great story tellers writing at the moment anywhere…

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