Gretchen Peters stands with the heavenly-host crowd of folk singer-songwriters like Nanci Griffith, Lucinda Williams and Bonnie Raitt. Her lilting but deeply-rooted voice carries bittersweet messages about relationships, rambling, characters ambling along the winding road of life and coming-of-age. The women who populate Peters’s works are so strikingly familiar, so brilliantly written, that The Shotgun Seat claims “you would be hard-pressed to find a better songwriter than Gretchen Peters.”