Gauthier, Mary

Vinyl Records and Rare LPs:

	Between Daylight And Dark New - LP - B0009865 Sealed, Out Of Print 2007 2LP 180gm Gatefold. "Produced By Joe Henry With Most Of The Musicians Who Played On His Civilians Album And Loudon Wainwright III's Strange Weirdos — Patrick Warren, Jay Bellerose, Greg Leisz, And David Piltch, With Wainwright And Van Dyke Parks Making Guest Appearances — It Possesses A Deeply Centered, Almost Organic Sound; One That Reverberates The Intentions Of The Songwriter Without Trying To Meet The Sound Head On. Gauthier Is A Monster Songwriter, But She Is Also An Iconoclast Because She's A Poet By The Virtue Of Her Gift."-AMG more
	Between Daylight And Dark Used - LP - B0008965 2007 2LP 180gm Gatefold Original. Both LPs Appear Unplayed. more
	Live At Blue Rock New - LP - ITB 1006 Sealed 2013 2LP 180gm Original Housed In A Gatefold Cover. more
	Live At Blue Rock New - LP - ITB1006 Sealed 2013 180gm 2LP Gatefold. A Collection Of Mary's Most Celebrated Songs Of The Last 12 Years, Recorded Live In Concert At Blue Rock Artist Ranch And Studio Outside Of Austin. more
	Mercy Now New - LP - B0003570 Sealed 2005 180gm Original With Custom Hype Sticker And Crisp Corners. Small Cut Out Hole. Dark Poetic Americana Highly Recommended To Fans Of Townes Van Zandt And Lucinda Williams. more
	Mercy Now Used - LP - B0003570 more
	Mercy Now Used - LP - B0003570 Out Of Print 2005 180gm Original. Dark Poetic Americana Highly Recommended To Fans Of Townes Van Zandt And Lucinda Williams. Appears Unplayed more
	Rifles & Rosary Beads Used - LP - ITB007 2018 original still in shrink. All songs were co-written by service members and spouses. "Singer/songwriter Mary Gauthier's catalog includes nine previous albums of confessional, autobiographical, and topical songs possessed of searing honesty, strength, and courage. On Rifles and Rosary Beads, the focus shifts to assist others in telling their stories. Since 2013, she has been involved with Songwriting with Soldiers, a nonprofit founded by Darden Smith in 2012. Anyone who has seen her play during this period has witnessed how the experience of collaborating with veterans and their families has transformed her own approach to performing: Roughly half of her live material is from her participation in SWS. The songs on this recording are released with full permission and participation from her collaborators, and a portion of the proceeds will benefit SWS. The music fits comfortably inside Gauthier's simple, rambling, storyteller style, but its lyric content is emotionally and intellectually loaded and revelatory. Gauthier co-wrote with four female and four male veterans, as well as six military spouses (all are credited) and some songwriting pals including Beth Nielsen Chapman, Ashley Cleveland, and Georgia Middleman. The laid-back, countrified "The War After the War" introduces the spouses' wrenching story: "Who's gonna care for the ones who care for the ones who went to war." Album-opener "Soldiering On" is one of two songs she crafted with Jennifer Marino, a veteran of the U.S. Marines. It distills the intentions and pitfalls of many who enlist: "I was bound to something bigger/More important than a single human life/I wore my uniform with honor/My service was not sacrifice/But what saves you in the battle/Can kill you at home...." The blues-tinged "Still on the Ride" and the hushed folk ballad "Morphine 1-2" confront the weight of the ordeal experienced by those with survivors' guilt. The slow-burning rock choogle of "Brothers" offers the viewpoint of military women who struggle for equality with their male peers. The haunted piano in "Bullet Holes in Sky" was co-written with Jamie Trent, a '90s-era Persian Gulf Navy veteran who served on the USS George Washington (a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier), who relays his complex feelings about Veterans Day. On closer "Stronger Together," Gauthier again collaborates with the spouses of the returning vets from the EOD (Explosive Ordinance Device, or bomb squad) who can only look rely on one another for support. Rifles and Rosary Beads is unlike any other record. It edifies and empathizes with the experiences of its participants in delivering brutal yet tender truths; it confronts listeners to embrace without judgment the struggle of war survivors, while experientially relating the extended fact that over 7,400 veterans commit suicide each year. Gauthier and her collaborators look into the gaping maw of war, its trauma, isolation, rage, and loneliness, to reveal the human faces and hearts of its witnesses. Popular music can do no more than this." All Music Guide - Thom Jurek more
	Trouble & Love New - LP - ITB008 Sealed, Out Of Print 2014 Original. 4 1/4 Stars AMG. "One Of Americana Music's Most Admired Artists — Across The U.S. And ... Around The World." — The Wall Street Journal. more
	Trouble Of Love Used - LP - ITB008 2014 Original Signed By The Artist In Sharpie On The Front Cover. Appears Unplayed. "One Of Americana Music's Most Admired Artists — Across The U.S. And ... Around The World." — The Wall Street Journal more