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Amazon.com A spark of redemption illuminates even the darker songs on Mercy Now, the fourth album by Mary Gauthier (pronounced "go-shay"). The influence of her native Louisiana pervades her Southern Gothic songcraft, which first won an audience in the folk clubs of Boston. After a series of releases on independent labels, her Lost Highway debut seems destined to expand that audience significantly. Within her mature, weather-beaten artistry, Dylanesque metaphysics go to Mardi Gras on "Wheel Inside the Wheel"; the naked emotion and eye for detail of "Your Sister Cried" and "Empty Spaces" conjure comparisons with Lucinda Williams; and the plainspoken "I Drink" and "Drop in a Bucket" have the bittersweet bite of the best of John Prine. The spare arrangements of producer/guitarist Gurf Morlix, punctuated by cello, organ, and harmonica, give the material plenty of room to breathe. Gauthier's vocals are half-spoken, half-sung, and all soul. --Don McLeese Product Description Mary Gauthier (pronounced 'Go-shay' ya'll) releases Mercy Now, her fourth full-length album & Lost Highway debut. Mercy Now features 10 songs overflowing with beauty, darkness, raw emotion & unflinching honesty, from a truly compelling artist. Gauthier's life has taken her on a path through devastation & despair. Her songwriting is a direct reflection of personal life experience. Mary Gauthier has beaten back demons, learned from the streets, hit rock bottom & risen from the ashes - all before writing her first song at the age of 35. Review "Wheel Inside The Wheel" is reminiscent of Mule Variations-Tom Waits-wafts like smoke from a New Orleans cocktail lounge. -- Paste Gauthier's songs unfold like country versions of noir films, their spaces surrounded by shadows, grim details and bruised emotions. -- USA Today, 2/15/05 ** 3 out of 4 Stars Her bayou laments are sparse and simple, but her artistry is pure and absolute. -- Playboy, March Issue ** 3 out of 4 Stars Mary Gauthier's Mercy Now is a truly extraordinary album from a critically acclaimed singer. -- Vanity Fair Mary's brought some vintage darkness, precise and moving in its emotional journalism. Her voice puts color in these shadows. -- Rolling Stone - 3 1/2 Star Review Nashville buzz suggests the literate alt-country singer-songwriter belongs in the same hallowed pantheon as John Prine and Lucinda Williams. -- Ice The beauty of Gauthier's country noir lies in the humanity of her characters and in the yerning of her drawl. -- Entertainment Weekly - B+ This is an unsettling work of terrible beauty. -- American Profile About the Artist "I know in my heart that I should be dead. Most of my friends are dead. The way I lived, I had no respect at all for my own life. So I'm living on borrowed time-and there's liberation in that." She's one of the most challenging performers to rise up from the underground in a long time. "I was adopted when I was a year old. My adopted parents tried, but their marriage was doomed. Music saved my life." At fifteen she stole her parents' car and raced away from Baton Rouge into a life that she remembers only as a blur. "I went into detox, ended up in a halfway house, got thrown out, lived with my mother again for a week. I ran away again, ended up at another detox and another halfway house, found friends to stay with, and I was off and running for a good ten years. I stole something out of a car-a bottle of pills or something-and I ended up in jail for my 18th birthday. They let me out, I got thrown out of Kansas, and I just kept running." Years would pass before Mary would find her muse. She enrolled at LSU as a philosophy major. When drugs became too hard to handle, Mary dropped out in her senior year and left for Boston, where she endured crappy jobs before working the counter at a little café. Somehow she moved ahead in the midst of her addictions; after being promoted to manager, she rounded up some backers who paid her way to the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts
