{"id":5975,"date":"2020-02-07T11:41:24","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T16:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/?post_type=wfsu-news&p=5975"},"modified":"2020-02-07T11:40:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T16:40:53","slug":"grant-peeples-bad-wife-jumps-gender-gap","status":"publish","type":"wfsu-news","link":"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wfsu-news\/grant-peeples-bad-wife-jumps-gender-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant Peeples’ “Bad Wife” Jumps Gender Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tallahassee singer-songwriter Grant Peeples very seldom covers other artists\u2019 songs. But Peeples’ latest collection is nothing BUT cover tunes, all written by women.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve heard it referred to as a \u2018tribute album,\u2019 but I think even more than that, it\u2019s a \u2018concept album.\u2019 I think that\u2019s a really good term for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grant Peeples has spent an artistic lifetime carefully crafting his own unique brand of music. So just the fact he\u2019s produced an entire CD of other people\u2019s material is concept enough. But Peeples has taken the concept to a whole new level by recording only songs written by women. Although he asserted women have always figured prominently in his music.<\/p>\n

\u201cEleven (of my) records have been produced by women. And I\u2019ve always had a lot of women singers and players on them. So it seems a little bit odd maybe at first sight that this is a record with all songs written by women and yet there\u2019s not a woman imprinted on any of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The title of Peeples\u2019 new CD, \u201cBad Wife,\u201d is also the title of the track written by Ali Holder. Other writers include Phoebe Blume, Eliza Gilkyson, Caroline Spence, Stephanie Lambring, Carry Elkin, Danya Kurtz, Alicia McGovern, Rebekah Pulley and Sarah Mac. Peeples adnutted he\u2019d has his eye – or perhaps more accurately his ear – on these tunes for some time.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery now and then a song really gets out there and just really nails me. And I try to deconstruct it and the only way I can do that is to try and sing it myself. And so I\u2019d been kind of collecting these and all of a sudden I looked down on the list and I said, \u2018I\u2019ll be damned; these are all written by women!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the gender gap, Peeples said he wanted to stay true to the emotional and lyrical viewpoint of each writer.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot only learning the songs, but to be able to sing them without changing the pronoun. Such as when Carry Elkin says, \u2018I need a man to touch,\u2019 I actually sing that without changing the pronoun. So it was an experiment.\u201d<\/p>\n

All of the eleven tracks are a solid contribution to that successful experiment, said Peeples. Although each song has its own merits, he shared the song penned by Telisha Williams about her emotionally unavailable grandmother had particular resonance.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe never really knew what her grandmother thought of her, but the refrain is, \u2018I know she loved me; I don\u2019t know why, I just know.\u2019 She sensed that. It\u2019s just the feeling of separation and of that longing. She was never held by her grandmother. Her grandmother never hugged her or held her hand. I don\u2019t know. That one hit pretty hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peeples is going to throw a grand release party for \u201cBad Wife\u201d in his Tallahassee hometown<\/p>\n

. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be on Valentine\u2019s Day, February 14th at the Junction on South Monroe and my friend Mark Russell, the great violinist\/fiddle player, is coming down from Boston to play here and we\u2019ll go out and do a few dates around the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Peeples himself might say, \u201cWhat a concept.\u201d <\/p>\n

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