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<a href="http://www.gretchenpeters.com" target="_blank">Gretchen Peters</a>&nbsp;is a Nashville Songwriters Hall of Famer who received a Grammy nomination and CMA Song of the Year Award in 1995 for Martina McBride&rsquo;s &ldquo;Independence Day,&rdquo; a second Grammy nomination and ACM nomination for Patty Loveless&rsquo; &ldquo;You Don&rsquo;t Even Know Who I Am&rdquo; in 1996 and a 2003 Golden Globe nomination for her song &ldquo;Here I Am,&rdquo; featured in the Dreamworks film Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. Her discography boasts over 120 recordings with many iconic artists, including George Jones, George Strait, Etta James, Trisha Yearwood, Faith Hill, Pam Tillis, Anne Murray, Randy Travis, Neil Diamond, the Neville Brothers, Bryan Adams and Bonnie Raitt, Her eighth studio album&nbsp;Blackbirds&nbsp;features a who&rsquo;s who of modern American roots music (Jerry Douglas, Jason Isbell, Jimmy LaFave, Suzy Bogguss and more). You can follow her on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/gretchenpeters" target="_blank">here</a>.

Gretchen Peters

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Gretchen Peters Talks Mark Knopfler’s Tracker

Talkhouse Contributing Writer Mish Way is the frontwoman of the band<a style="color: #1155cc;" href="https://www.facebook.com/whitelung" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/whitelung" target="_blank">White Lung</a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/whitelung" target="_blank">.</a> Her freelance work can be found in The Guardian, Dazed &amp; Confused, Salon and VICE, amongst others. She prefers writing about sex over music. You can follow her on Twitter <a style="color: #42d9d2;" href="https://twitter.com/myszkaway" target="_blank">here</a>.

Mish Way

Mish Way (White Lung) Talks Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds’ Chasing Yesterday

Gareth Sager, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, has written over 1,001 songs and performed over 1,001 concerts with, among others, the Pop Group, Rip Rig + Panic, Head and solo. He is still hard at it!!!

Gareth Sager

Gareth Sager (The Pop Group, Rip Rig + Panic) Talks Freak Heat Waves’ Bonnie’s State of Mind

Nico Muhly is a New York-based composer and songwriter. He has collaborated with Björk, the National, Philip Glass, Usher, Antony and the Johnsons and Bonnie &#8220;Prince&#8221; Billy, among others. You can follow him on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/nicomuhly">here</a> and visit his website <a href="http://nicomuhly.com/">here</a>.

Nico Muhly

Nico Muhly Talks Madonna’s Rebel Heart

Talkhouse Contributing Writer Amy Klein is a writer and musician living in New York City. She plays guitar and sings in the bands Leda and Hilly Eye. You can follow her on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/amyrebeccaklein" target="_blank">here. </a>

Amy Klein

Amy Klein (Leda, Hilly Eye, Titus Andronicus) Talks Mount Eerie’s Sauna

Kathy Valentine has been a working musician and songwriter for over 40 years, ever since she started her first band at age 16 in her hometown of Austin, Texas. After moving to Los Angeles, Kathy joined a band that would go on to make music history: The Go-Go’s. In this group, Kathy wrote or co-wrote some of the bands most renowned tunes, including the hits “Vacation” and “Head Over Heels.” She returned to Austin in 2006 and began finding new creative pursuits and career opportunities as a public speaker, spokesperson, producer, actor and author.
Signing with the esteemed University of Texas Press, her memoir All I Ever Wanted was released in Spring 2020. She put an academic degree plan on hold while finishing and promoting her book, and still finds time to play guitar with the Bluebonnets the all-female rock &amp; roll band she started in Austin.
Kathy’s greatest loves are her daughter, writing, music, and travel. Her hobbies are reading, computer graphics, digital recording, social media, politics, and natural based health protocols.

Kathy Valentine

Kathy Valentine (the Bluebonnets, the Go-Go’s) Talks Brandi Carlile’s The Firewatcher’s Daughter

Mackenzie Scott performs as&nbsp;Torres. Her second album, Sprinter, came out on Partisan Records in 2015. You can follow her on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/torreslovesyou" target="_blank">here</a>.
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Mackenzie Scott

Mackenzie Scott (Torres) Talks Sonny and the Sunsets’ Talent Night at the Ashram

Mike Mills is best known as the co-founder and bassist of seminal rock band R.E.M. He has also played in the Baseball Project and Hindu Love Gods.
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Marilyn Carino gained notoriety as the songwriter and frontwoman of post-trip-hop band Mudville and as a solo artist and producer. Carino and Mills embarked on a joint writing endeavor for the soundtrack to a film that was never completed, but which resulted in one song, “War and Peace,” that will be included on Carino’s album <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/leaves-sadness-science/id970791350" target="_blank">Leaves, Sadness, Science,</a> which will be out April 14. You can follow Mills on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/m_millsey" target="_blank">here</a> and Carino on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/marilyncarino" target="_blank">here</a>.

Mike Mills and Marilyn Carino

Mike Mills (R.E.M., the Baseball Project) and Marilyn Carino (Mudville) Talk Of Montreal’s Aureate Gloom

Since the release of 2012&#8217;s acclaimed Solo Piano II, Chilly Gonzales composed the best-selling book of easy piano pieces Re-Introduction Etudes, produced and released Octave Minds, the piano-meets-electronica album with Boys Noize and devoted himself to finding a modern take on chamber music. The result is Chambers, out March 24, 2015, an album for piano and string quartet. Inspired by the deepening relationship with Hamburg&#8217;s Kaiser Quartett, the album re-imagines Romantic-era chamber music as today&#8217;s addictive pop. Gonzales holds the Guinness world record for the longest solo concert: over 27 hours. He’s collaborated with with Jarvis Cocker, Feist and Drake, among others. He won a 2014 Grammy for his collaboration on Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories. With &#8220;Never Stop,&#8221; he composed a global hit for the inaugural Apple iPad campaign. You can find Chilly on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/chillygonzales" target="_blank">here</a>, Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chillygonzales" target="_blank">here</a> and his website is <a href="http://www.chillygonzales.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.

Chilly Gonzales

Chilly Gonzales Talks Big Sean’s Dark Sky Paradise

Craig Finn is a songwriter and music fan. He is the frontman for the Hold Steady and used to sing for Lifter Puller. Craig is from Minneapolis but has lived in Brooklyn since 2000. He mostly likes talking about Kiss but also digs sports and late-&#8217;80s hardcore. You can follow him on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/steadycraig" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

Craig Finn

Craig Finn (the Hold Steady) Talks James McMurtry’s Complicated Game

Will Sheff is the bandleader of Okkervil River, whose latest album is The Silver Gymnasium. His criticism and fiction have been published in McSweeney&#8217;s, Gawker, Magnet and the Austin Chronicle. Follow him on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/okkervilriver">here</a>.

Will Sheff

Will Sheff (Okkervil River) Talks THEESatisfaction’s EarthEE

Talkhouse Contributing Writer Peter Holsapple has sung and played guitar in the dB&#8217;s, Holsapple &amp; Stamey, and Continental Drifters, as well as playing on albums and tours with R.E.M., Hootie and the Blowfish, Indigo Girls, and Nanci Griffith. He contributes to the New York Times&#8216; songwriter&#8217;s blog Measure for Measure, and has written pieces in several books on music.  Peter is a charter member of Radio Free Song Club, a magnificent new songwriters&#8217; collective. He considers himself among the luckiest people on earth.

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