Mary Gauthier

Gauthier's sepia-toned narratives go with her slow-burning instrumentation like biscuits and gravy. "Wheel Inside the Wheel" braids bucolic sentiment with modern day storytelling; "I Drink" reinvents tear-in-the-beer songwriting with hypnotic organ drones and the kind of romantic dipsomania also in Lucinda Williams' work.

As a singer, Mary Gauthier could pass for Lucinda Williams' twin sister: Gauthier's voice, like
Williams', is a chewy Dixie drawl scarred with experience. And as a songwriter, Gauthier,
like Williams, has bloomed in adulthood. She wrote her first song at thirty-five, after a long
trip up from rock bottom. Now, at forty-two, after a run of acclaimed independent albums,
Gauthier makes her major-label debut with the country-gothic suspense of Merc... More >