"I'd like to get stoned," sings ALICE PEACOCK'S over a shambling electric guitar at the beginning
of her fourth album, Love Remains. It's a startling, if tongue-in-cheek, way to kick off a set
of country-tinged pop-rock tunes recorded in the heart of Nashville.
The Chicago based singer songwriter found inspiration with her collaborator and co-
producer/co-writer Danny Myrick, "It was about the vibe," she elaborates. "Who could we
put in the room? When Danny and I were writing together, just the two of us with guitars,
cracking up and having a blast, the music had this Tom Petty/early Linda Ronstadt/John
Mellencamp/Sheryl Crow-made-a-country-record feel to it," Peacock reveals. "I said, ‘Pedal
steel? F--- yeah! I want it on every damn song!' I love that '70s, California-country sound,
and I'm totally unapologetic about trying to recapture it."
Love Remains is a both a timely and timeless collection of novellas
that brings to mind the joy of simple things and the prospect of a
better world. Along with several songs she wrote on her own and
a few she penned with other songwriters (such as John Paul
White, with whom she crafted "All About Me"), this latest batch
of tunes finds Peacock in a new place, both thematically and
geographically. But her abiding belief in the power of
music is a constant. "Can music change the world?/
Yeah, I think it can," she sings in "Forgiveness," and
she has a story to back it up. Look for Alice on tour
through-out 2009!
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