The Essential Gretchen Peters
AlbumTracklist 115:38
CD 1
| 1 | Blackbirds | 4:30 | |
| 2 | The Aviator’s Song | 4:40 | |
| 3 | The Secret of Life | 4:17 | |
| 4 | If Heaven | 3:19 | |
| 5 | When All You Got Is a Hammer | 3:48 | |
| 6 | On a Bus to St. Cloud | 4:48 | |
| 7 | The Matador | 4:16 | |
| 8 | Sunday Morning (Up and Down My Street) | 4:09 | |
| 9 | Guadalupe Gretchen Peters with Tom Russell | 5:40 | |
| 10 | Hello Cruel World | 4:22 | |
| 11 | When You Love Someone Gretchen Peters with Bryan Adams | 3:09 | |
| 12 | Five Minutes | 5:00 | |
| 13 | When You Are Old | 2:55 |
CD 2
| 1 | The Way You Move Me | 3:28 | |
| 2 | Ring Around the Moon | 3:22 | |
| 3 | Pretty Things (radio edit) | 4:02 | |
| 4 | The Cruel Mother | 6:21 | |
| 5 | Woman on the Wheel (live) | 5:09 | |
| 6 | When You Wish Upon a Star | 3:03 | |
| 7 | I Saw Your Light | 4:37 | |
| 8 | Love | 3:29 | |
| 9 | The Chill of an Early Fall (demo) | 3:47 | |
| 10 | Independence Day (acoustic version) | 4:40 | |
| 11 | Wild Horses Gretchen Peters with Matraca Berg and Suzy Bogguss | 5:32 | |
| 12 | The Answer (work tape) | 3:24 | |
| 13 | Blackbirds (work tape) Gretchen Peters and Ben Glover | 5:13 | |
| 14 | Five Minutes (work tape) | 4:38 |