![]() There’s no mystery as to what she’s referring to on “Paradise Found” when she sings, “When your need is strong and the hour is late/Baby, you got the key to my garden gate.” A song like “Natural Disaster” impresses for its plainspoken central metaphor, in which Peters compares environmental turmoil to psychological ruin. She invokes the story of Saint Francis to address the limitations of liberal guilt (her delivery of the line, “You want to let him in, but what will the neighbors say?” is withering), and adopts the persona of a circus performer on “Woman on the Wheel” in an attempt to explain the risk calculus involved in her relationships.Īs heady and high-minded as her writing may be, Peters never becomes too deliberately obtuse or inscrutable. Peters opens the album with a weary sigh, confronting her own shortcomings and mortality when she sings, “I’m not dead, but I’m damaged goods/And it’s getting late.” She spends the remainder of the album laying plain the extent of that damage, and she does so with an often literary flair. The result is an album of remarkable maturity, as Peters tackles tumultuous emotional conflicts head-on. Not until 2007’s Burnt Toast & Offerings did Peters sound entirely comfortable in incorporating first-person details into her songwriting, but on her latest, Hello Cruel World, her writing is as uninhibited and unflinching as it is dense and poetic. The Folk Alley Radio Show is presently carried on over 50 stations nationally.Though she first made a name for herself in the mid ‘90s, when Martina McBride turned her song “Independence Day” into a modern country standard, it’s taken singer-songwriter Gretchen Peters some time to find her way as a recording artist in her own right. The show is available for free to stations via PRX.org or directly from WKSU via FTP for non-PRX members. Mipso – Didn’t Know Love – Edges Run – AntiFragile Musicīill Morrissey – Summer Night – Standing Eight – Rounderįolk Alley’s weekly, syndicated radio show is produced by Linda Fahey and Elena See with assistance by Jon Nungesser. The Quiet American – John Brown’s Dream – Wild Bill Jones – The Quiet AmericanĪnna & Elizabeth – John of Hazelgreen – Invisible Comes To Us – Smithsoninan Folkways Vivian Leva – Cold Mountains – Time Is Everything – Free Dirt Pete Seeger – Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream – Waist Deep In the Big Muddy – CBS/Sony RecordsĮliza Gilkyson – Down By the Riverside (w/ Jimmy LaFave) – Secularia – Red House Records Guy Davis & Fabrizio Poggi – Walk On – Sonny & Brownie’s Last Train – M.C. Twisted Pine – El Chepe/The One I Love Is Gone – Dreams – Signature Soundsīen Harper and Charlie Musselwhite – No Mercy In This Land – No Mercy In This Land – Antiĭave Ray – Last Fair Deal – Legacy – Red House Records Punch Brothers – Julep – The Phosphorescent Blues – Nonesuch Recordsĭella Mae – Good Blood – Della Mae – Rounder Records Merle Travis – Saturday Night Shuffle – in Boston 1959 – Rounder Old Crow Medicine Show – The Good Stuff – Volunteer – Sony/Columbia I’m With Her (Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz and Aoife O’Donovan) – See You Around – See You Around – I’m With Her/Rounder The Barr Brothers – Old Mythologies – The Barr Brothers – Secret City Records Gretchen Peters – Lowlands – Dancing With the Beast – Scarlet Letter Records Lindsay Lou – Sugar – Southland – Lindsay Lou Music The Stray Birds – Nothing To Say About It Now – Let It Pass – Yep Roc Records Taj Mahal – Fishin’ Blues (live) – The Real Thing – Columbia John Prine – Fish and Whistle – Great Days: The John Prine Anthology – Rhino Recordsįrank Solivan – The Fishin’ Song – Family, Friends & Heroes – Compass Records The Slocan Ramblers – Just To Know – Queen City Jubilee – The Slocan Ramblers The Slocan Ramblers – Riley the Furniture Man – Queen City Jubilee – The Slocan Ramblers Rose Cousins – What I See – We Have Made a Spark – Old Farm Pony Records Steve Dawson – Hollow Tree Gap – Lucky Hand – Black Hen Music This week on Folk Alley we welcome in summer with some music by Alan Doyle, John Prine, Taj Mahal and Frank Solivan and feature new summer releases by Kittel & Co., Steve Dawson, The Slocan Ramblers, Twisted Pine, Eliza Gilkyson, and an advance single from the The Stray Birds upcoming album, ‘Let It Pass’ due on in September all this plus favorites by Pete Seeger, Bill Morrissey, Punch Brothers, Rose Cousins, and much more.Īlan Doyle – Summer Summer Night – A Week at the Warehouse – Universal Music Canada
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