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Jun 19, 2015Some of the subject matter may be dark, often disturbing, but the warm washes of traditional folk and country allied with Peters beautiful tones make for a triumphant return. “Blackbirds” is a powerful piece of incisive poetry set to the simplest melodies that makes one wonder why the heck isn’t she a national treasure in her homeland?
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Feb 21, 2015Blackbirds is not an album of fresh sound and modern ingenuity. It is instead an album that recreates past sounds exceptionally. The songwriting, instrumentation, and especially the production culminate in a listen that, while it doesn't beckon intense critical scrutiny, is a wonderfully enjoyable experience.
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Feb 24, 2015Creating a 21st-century album that is still able to deal in an original and touching way with the big and interesting subjects of love and death is a trick that many folk and country musicians try to pull off and few achieve, especially in the impressive way that Gretchen Peters does with her 2015 album Blackbirds.
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MojoFeb 13, 2015Thankfully, frequent shards of light lift the gloom and raise the spirits. [Mar 2014, p.95]
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Feb 12, 2015With Blackbirds poignantly beautiful in many places, it may just be the one to do so.