Dancing with the Beast Gretchen Peters SKU: SCARLLP11 Barcode: 659696476219 17.00 £17.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Scarlet Letter Records Released Date: 25th May 2018 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Dancing with the Beast, the new album from Gretchen Peters, puts female characters at the fore, from teenage girls to old women. And intentionally so. With the 2017 Women’s March and the #MeToo Movement as bookends to her writing time, Peters knew that a feminist perspective would be the critical core of the record. She admits, “You can trace the feminist DNA in my songwriting back to ‘Independence Day’ and probably before. The thing that 2017 did is just put it front and centre.” Though Peters doesn’t consider herself a political writer, she is politically minded and, therefore, knew she had to address the 2016 election and all that has happened since… but in her own way. There’s a bittersweet beauty to the passing of time — the changes it brings are just as often heartbreaking as they are heartwarming. The inevitable tension that arises from that sway is Gretchen Peters’ most trusted muse. With melody supporting that melancholy, the songs on the new album combine to lift the effort over the high artistic bar set by her last outing, 2015’s award-winning Blackbirds. Whether a single sentence or a simple setting, once planted, even the tiniest seed can grow into a vision unto itself. Strung together and populated with strong and broken female heroines, those vignettes make up Dancing with the Beast and, indeed, Peters’ entire discography. Beauty tempered by dread, sorrow buoyed by hope, these are the ever-present tugs of war that make life worth living and songs worth writing. And they are the over-riding themes that make Gretchen Peters one of her generation’s most compelling singer/songwriters. “Ben Glover, Jason Isbell, Suzy Bogguss and others help out along the way, but this is all Peters’s show as she shines a light under some very dark rocks.” – Q magazine (4 Stars) Artist Gretchen Peters Genre Americana / Country Label Scarlet Letter Records Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings Arguing With Ghosts Wichita The Boy From Rye Disappearing Act Lowlands The Show Dancing With The Beast Truckstop Angel Say Grace Lay Low Love That Makes A Cup of Tea Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Gretchen Peters and more from Americana / Country View Product Quick View Gretchen Peters The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs of Mickey Newbury Americana / Country | Scarlet Letter Records | 1LP Released 19th June 2020 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gretchen Peters The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs of Mickey Newbury £16.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Scarlet Letter Records SKU: SCARLLP12 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 19th June 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Gretchen Peters Blackbirds Americana / Country | Scarlet Letter Records | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 6th March 2015 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gretchen Peters Blackbirds £17.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Scarlet Letter Records SKU: SCARLLP10 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 6th March 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sadies, The Internal Sounds Americana / Country | Yep Roc | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes CD Released 3rd October 2013 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sadies, The Internal Sounds £20.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Yep Roc SKU: YEP2353LP Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes CD Released Date: 3rd October 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jesse Tabish Cowboy Ballads Part I Americana / Country | Play It Again Sam | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 21st October 2022 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jesse Tabish Cowboy Ballads Part I £22.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Play It Again Sam SKU: PIASR5130LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 21st October 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Waylon Jennings Turn Back The Years Live In Dallas 75 Americana / Country | Live On Vinyl | 1LP Released 25th August 2017 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Waylon Jennings Turn Back The Years Live In Dallas 75 £17.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Live On Vinyl SKU: LOVLP2028 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 25th August 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Delines, The Christmas In Atlantis Americana / Country | Decor | 7", Single Released 1st December 2023 £10.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Delines, The Christmas In Atlantis £10.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Decor SKU: DECOR65 Formats: 7", Single Released Date: 1st December 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Paul's picks View Product Quick View Iris DeMent Infamous Angel (30th Anniversary Edition) Americana / Country | Yep Roc | 1LP Released 4th November 2022 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Iris DeMent Infamous Angel (30th Anniversary Edition) £23.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Yep Roc SKU: LPYEP2561 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 4th November 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Kris Kristofferson This Old Road Americana / Country | New West | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 18th November 2022 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Kris Kristofferson This Old Road £23.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: New West SKU: LPNW5682C Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 18th November 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Paul's picks View Product Quick View Ferris & Sylvester Superhuman Americana / Country | PIAS | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 17th June 2022 £25.00 - 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