{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2019}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2017}} {{Infobox album | name = The Peach State EP | type = studio | artist = Lo Carmen | cover = File:Album 'The Peach State EP' Cover.jpg | alt = | released = 13 November 2012 | recorded = | venue = | studio = Butcher Shoppe (Nashville, Tennessee) | genre = {{hlist|Americana|singer-songwriter|alternative country|folk|indie rock}} | length = 22:20 | label = Chiquita Records | producer = Lo Carmen | prev_title = It Walks Like Love | prev_year = 2009 | next_title = The Apple Don't Fall Far from the Tree | next_year = 2013 }} '''''The Peach State EP''''' is a solo acoustic studio recording by Australian singer/songwriter Lo Carmen featuring songs written in Georgia, USA during a heatwave, performed on 'an abandoned, battered old Stella parlor guitar found buried between toasters and chairs in a Goodwill on the highway for the grand sum of $4.94'.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://locarmen.bandcamp.com/album/the-peach-state-ep |title=The Peach State EP | Lo Carmen |publisher=Locarmen.bandcamp.com |date= |accessdate=2022-05-04}}</ref><ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211208/R677_dOBq8A Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20201106131927/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R677_dOBq8A&feature=youtu.be Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R677_dOBq8A| title = Lo Carmen 'The Peach State' | website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> David R. Ferguson, aka 'Ferg', is well known for engineering the seminal Johnny Cash American Recordings. He co-owns the Butcher Shoppe with John Prine.
==Track listing== # "The Peach State" 03:27 # "Who Told You Butter Was Evil?" 03:05 # "Lonesome Beauty" 02:18 # "I Must Be Seein' Things" 03:14 # "Black Tambourine" 03:18 # "Doorways" (bonus track) 06:40
==Reception== The EP received limited media coverage and radio airplay.
“...stark country-soul and shimmering blues ...a direct line to the heart that showcases her glorious voice " No Depression<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nodepression.com/article/news-loene-carmen-releases-new-ep-peach-state |title=NEWS: Loene Carmen Releases New EP - The Peach State {{!}} No Depression |website=nodepression.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150503052127/http://nodepression.com/article/news-loene-carmen-releases-new-ep-peach-state |archive-date=2015-05-03}} </ref>
'The spareness of the sound has an authenticity, sincerity and purity of purpose that harks back to the likes of Woody Guthrie. This is folk music. Or country, real country, before that moniker meant chart-topping pseudo-rock that’s had the soul sucked out of it, so it’s but a desiccated skeleton. Carmen is the mistress of evocation. Perhaps it’s her sense of the cinematic that enables her to suggest pictures worth a thousand, from precious few words. And make each and every album a discrete episode in her musical life, with its own distinct atmosphere' Something You Said <ref>{{cite web|url=http://somethingyousaid.com/2013/06/24/loene-carmens-peach-state-again/ |title=» Loene Carmen's Peach State… again! Something You Said |publisher=Somethingyousaid.com |date=2013-06-24 |accessdate=2022-05-04}}</ref>
==Personnel== * Lo Carmen – vocals/guitar * David Ferguson – engineer/mixing
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