Mary Gauthier Reckoning CD

Reckoning is a dense, carefully nuanced, profoundly complex text, though all nine songs are presented as directly as possible: Mary's voice, her guitar, bits of harmonica. Folk music, of a kind, but not a broadside. Nothing so easy as that. Topical songs with a long view, because she's seen and lived too much of it. Mary's most celebrated songs ” I Drink, Mercy Now, Drag Queens in Limousines ” are confessional stories, closely observed, clear-eyed and compassionate. She sings with the unmistakable languor of her native Louisiana, writes with the bluntness of Boston, where she was once a successful restauranteur, and rewrites with the fierce precision of Nashville, her home for many years. Her 2018 release, Rifles & Rosary Beads, co-written with wounded Iraq war veterans, received a Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album, and an Americana Music Association nomination for Album of the Year. During Covid she wrote and saw published (by MacMillan) Saved by a Song: The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting, part memoir, part reflection on songwriting, through the lens of her most impactful songs. A reckoning, Mary Gauthier writes on the outer sleeve to her newest album, can be personal, political, or spiritual. These songs inhabit all three realms at once.

Tracklisting

1.  Alcohol And Adderall - Mary Gauthier

2.  Heaven - Mary Gauthier

3.  Judgement Day - Mary Gauthier

4.  Reckoning - Mary Gauthier

5.  Soldier Of Fortune - Mary Gauthier

6.  Some Times - Mary Gauthier

7.  Black Ice - Mary Gauthier

8.  Gone - Mary Gauthier

9.  I Thought I Heard A Train - Mary Gauthier