WATCH: US star Gretchen Peters says farewell to UK touring

Her latest UK tour is also her last, a farewell tour which will bring her to Bexhill’s De La Warr Pavilion on May 21. It will be a chance for Gretchen to pay her respects to a country which gave her an audience probably 15 years before she found one back home in the States.

“It's really hard to overstate what the UK means to me,” she says. “At the point where I came for my first tour in the UK, my debut record was out (in the States) and it was languishing. And I just felt it in my bones. I knew I had been marketed in the States as a mainstream country artist and I knew that's not what I was and not what I wanted to be. I think there's just a reason for everything. I didn't know what I was going to do with my career but I came to the UK and suddenly everything that didn't work in the US worked in the UK. The things what went wrong in the States went right in the UK.