Press Archive
Selected Articles and Interviews
Open Mic: Charlie Peacock Pushes Through Chronic Pain on ‘EVERY KIND OF UH-OH’
"With a 40+ year career spanning virtually every aspect of the music business – from performing and songwriting to production, development and even education – Charlie Peacock has battled myriad creative challenges."
Polymath Peacock Tells His Story
"Producer-songwriter-artist Charlie Peacock—whose five-decade career encompasses producing acclaimed folk duo The Civil Wars, developing rock band Switchfoot and co-writing Amy Grant’s pop smash, 'Every Heartbeat'—has written a memoir."
Music and Meaning with Charlie Peacock Podcast
"Folks who read the liner notes of albums back in the 1990s saw the name Charlie Peacock show up quite often."
"Skin And Wind is yet another 10-song collection of mature, 60’s and 70’s influenced pop served up by an artist with decades of studio mastery and music business experience."
God, Music & Meaning
Charlie Peacock: Skin And Wind [Album Review]
"Charlie Peacock, Grammy Award–winning music producer and host of CT’s “Music & Meaning” podcast:
"I never decided to go into music; it’s more like music decided to get into me. I see this as divine appropriation for all that was to come. I could’ve been a poet or a writer, and in many ways I am, but music was always in me."
Interview with Charlie Peacock: I think congruence replaces the need for balance.
"Jazz interview with singer, songwriter, pianist, producer Charlie Peacock."
New single is about swindling, trusting, fighting and “things not
too terrible to tell.”
Take Five With Charlie Peacock
"Charlie Peacock is an American multi-genre Grammy Award-winning record producer, composer, and recording artist."
"Charlie Peacock is one of those rare musicians who’s relevance has only increased over the past few decades."
Charlie Peacock —
Lemonade
"LEMONADE - pianist, composer, record producer and Grammy Award Winner Charlie Peacock’s collection of twelve solo piano improvisations is an unexpected, yet winsome next musical step after his much-admired 2012 Folk-Americana release, No Man’s Land."
Charlie Peacock talks Barton Hollow. The Civil Wars & T Bone Burnett’s Long Time Gone
Growing Up with
Charlie Peacock
"Speaking about music, The Civil Wars won two Grammy awards back in 2012 for Best Country Performance by Duo or Group and Folk Album of the Year for the magnificent album Barton Hollow. Ever wonder how that album came along? Wonder no more."
"Charlie Peacock released his new record, No Man’s Land, this past fall. Charlie and I have been friends for close to twenty years, and I was a huge fan for years before that so I asked him for an early copy to review here. He was gracious enough to oblige. I imagined I’d listen to the record, mention a few key high points and invite you to pick up a copy."
Charlie Peacock’s crowning achievement
"Charlie Peacock is truly one of the most unique artists of the last 30 years. He started life as a jazz-fueled, R&B-oriented pop singer in the California club scene before coming to faith and embarking on a bold and influential path as an artist and producer never satisfied to settle for the Christian music ghetto."
10 Questions:
Charlie Peacock
Producing
The Civil Wars'
Barton Hollow
"Charlie Peacock takes songwriting more seriously than most. “Why even write songs?” asks the longtime Nashville producer and musician, his intensity cut with curiosity rather than despair."
"Ever since honky-tonk gave way to the smoother 'countrypolitan' sound in the late '50s, there have been complaints that Nashville was losing its soul."
The Music Man
"In the ’80s, Charlie Peacock was jamming with Randy Jackson in midtown Sacramento and being asked to open for a then-fledgling U2 in Davis. These days, he’s collaborating with the American Idol judge on TV projects and having Bono over to his house for breakfast."
Charlie Peacock Predicts The Future Of Christian Music
"After spending the first week of February at #1 on the iTunes album charts, The Civil Wars full length BARTON HOLLOW debuted at #12 on the Billboard 200 and captured the #1 position for digital albums over all."
"With the volatile state of the music industry and changing technology’s effect on consumers and industry execs alike, labels, artists, songwriters and media are having to get more creative about the products they deliver and the ways they deliver them."
The Record Producer
Charlie Peacock at
The Jazz Standard
"Grammy Award-winning producer/composer and pianist Charlie Peacock blends acoustic jazz with elements of pop and electronica for this release, which is the latest in a recording career that began in 1983."