Tag: Gretchen Peters

Competition | Win tickets to Platform Festival

Pockinton (about 13 miles east of York) is the host for Platform Festival, running over 4 days from the 12th to 16th July. Held indoors in an old railway station, the festival features a number of FFS favourites, opening with…

Album | Gretchen Peters – Blackbirds

Gretchen Peters’ Blackbirds is bookended by two songs of the same name. The opener is electric and confrontational, the closer a milder and softer reprise. Powered by Peters’ voice – lived-in, loaded, tainted with regret – the chorus of the…

Album | Gretchen Peters – Hello Cruel World

This is Gretchen Peters’ first appearance on FFS, and she’s most decidedly at the country end of our folk spectrum (if you remember Faith Hill, she wrote a song for her in the 90s).  She’s lived in Nashville since the…