Gretchen Peters

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Today’s most vivid, detailed songwriter. She is uncanny at transforming simple thoughts or images into song.

—Glide Magazine

Both a songwriter and a poet . . .  sings as beautifully as she writes.

—Rodney Crowell

For more than two decades, Gretchen Peters has been one of Nashville’s most beloved and respected songwriters. Inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in October 2014, Peters has accumulated accolades as a songwriter for musicians as diverse as Etta James, Bonnie Raitt, the Neville Brothers, Patty Loveless, George Strait, Bryan Adams, and Faith Hill.

Her song “Independence Day,” recorded by Martina McBride, won the Country Music Association Award for Song of the in 1995. She has been nominated for two Best Country Song Grammys (for “Independence Day” and “You Don’t Even Know Who I Am,” recorded by Patty Loveless), a Golden Globe (“Here I Am,” recorded by Bryan Adams), and numerous other awards. Her 2015 album Blackbirds was awarded International Album of the Year and Song of the Year, for the title track, by the Americana Association UK. In 2015, the Telegraph named her one of the greatest 60 female singer-songwriters of all time. In 2021, she was awarded the Poets Award by the Academy of Country Music.