Hearts In Armor is the latest album from Trisha Yearwood, the most hotly-tipped of the new breed of female artists shaking life into country music. It looks set to better the success of her million-selling debut. Report: Oliver P. Sweeney
With a string of hits for other performers, Gretchen Peters is very much a writers' writer, with Bryan Adams - co-writer of seven songs with her on his On A Day Like Today album - and Trisha Yearwood prominent on her list of admirers.
“All men are bastards” Country star trisha yearwood firmly believed – until she met the one who would become her husband. Here, she talks to Joe Jackson about how her marriage to Robert Reynolds of The Mavericks has changed the way she looks at the opposite sex. She also discusses her rivalry with LeAnn Rimes, and the darker side of the Nashville country ’n’ western scene.
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Cork singer-songwriter NICOLE MAGUIRE is rapidly making a name for herself with her full-on pop-rock songs, swoonful voice and dogged determination. On the release of her debut album Fight The Score she talks to Jackie Hayden.
He’s one of Ireland's most promising songwriters-for-hire, but now Limerick native Don Mescall hopes to establish himself as a solo artist in his own right.
Songwriter to the stars Gretchen Peters on record company inertia, the need for revolutionary new artists, and what it means to be an American musician in these highly fraught times. words Jackie Hayden
After studiously walking the line between rock and pop, Corkonian Jennifer Clarke explains why she now regards herself as a country act, and tells Jackie Hayden about her interest in serial killers.
MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER talks to JOE JACKSON about Party Doll And Other Favourites, a Greatest Hits collection which she hopes will breathe new life into a tired format.
Live on your TV and your wireless, 2TV will be broadcasting all summer long. JACKIE HAYDEN goes behind the scenes on the show that shakes up Sunday mornings.
Gretchen Peters
Whelan’s, Dublin
To say that much great music goes unnoticed would be stating the obvious, but in the case of Gretchen Peters her creative muse is normally channelled through others.
