Discography: Gretchen Peters – Woman On The Wheel

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In April 2012 I came home from a month of touring in the UK and Europe with Gretchen Peters. We played 30 shows on that tour and by the end we all agreed that a live CD had to be made sooner than later. So after a couple weeks of post-tour resting, with the music still fresh in our heads and hands, Gretchen, Barry and I reunited in Toronto to record a live CD at Hugh’s Room.

Instead of just releasing the CD on its own, Gretchen created a 60 page full color hard cover book of photographs, mementos and essays about the making of the album and the tour. In the front of the book is a sleeve with the live CD. In the back sleeve of the book you get a DVD with an hour long retrospective video and full length performances from the tour. The whole package is beautifully, thoughtfully designed.

As of this week, Woman On The Wheel: Live from the Hello Cruel World Tour 2012: Book/CD/DVD is now available on Gretchen’s website. Here’s a little sneak preview of the DVD.

 

Why Do You Create? And Why Share It?

This feels like the best reason to me: As you grow up you're inspired by many things. Certain music, books, movies, visual art – things that people have created – make you feel inspired. You then learn to make your own things and you share them with the world. By doing this you're contributing. You get to be a part of it. You absorb and edit and add and filter through your own experience, and then someone else gets inspiration from that. And it continues. You're inspired and you inspire.