Artist: Master Series with Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Member Gretchen Peters, accompanied by Barry Walsh, and hosted by songwriter Eric Gnezda. Gretchen Peters is a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and a two-time Grammy Award nominee. Her song, "Independence Day," recorded by Martina McBride, was named Country Music Association's "Song of the Year" in 1995. She has also written songs for Etta James, Trisha Yearwood, Patty Loveless, George Strait, Anne Murray, Shania Twain, Neil Diamond, and Bryan Adams, with whom she also co-writes. She collaborates, performs and records with her husband, Barry Walsh, who has worked with Roy Orbison, Waylon Jennings, Olivia Newton-John, Beth Nielsen Chapman, and Alex Chilton's Box Tops. She performs "Five Minutes," "The Cure For The Pain" and "Matador."
