mary gauthier

Mary Gauthier’s “Reckoning” strips things down to voice, guitar and occasional harmonica, her rawest album yet, co-produced with Neilson Hubbard and modelled on Springsteen’s Nebraska. Co-written with Jaimee Harris, Ben Roberts and Lori McKenna among others, the songs build around characters who arrive at pivotal moments and face reckonings that define their lives and communities.

Featuring a number of special guests and reflecting on both love and loss, Dark Enough To See The Stars is another magnificent reminder that few shine as brightly as Mary Gauthier.

We talk to American singer songwriter Mary Gauthier, our featured Artist of the Month, about her latest album, Rifles And Rosary Beads. A work that brings new songs to her audience, from a quite remarkable source.

Rifles And Rosary Beads is a small selection of exceptional songs from a unique, and valuable project. In fact, remarkable really doesn’t cover it. When Mary Gauthier writes, records, performs, you expect remarkable; that’s what her music is. Rifles And Rosary Beads goes far beyond this.

Acclaimed singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier will release her most important work to date with Rifles & Rosary Beads. The album reveals the untold stories and powerful struggles that war veterans and their spouses deal with abroad and after returning home.

This tribute album serves as a welcome reminder of the great Ted Hawkins, bringing together a diverse collection of artists to record a selection of Hawkins’ own songs including Shinyribs, Mary Gauthier, James McMurtry and more.

There are some rare records where the title tells you the story as eloquently as a thousand words. Mary Gauthier’s Trouble & Love may well be one of these, but just in case, read on…