Mary Gauthier's last album, Filth & Fire, was filled with visions of cheap motels, heroin addicts, "dirty air, dirty laundry, dirty money" and "dirty rain." And either in spite of that gloom and doom ...

An old adage holds that a classic country music song must contain certain ingredients: a broken heart, a beat-up pickup truck, hard times and loss. Singer Mary Gauthier understands the formula well ...

The road to mercy can be long and rough, but Mary Gauthier's fourth album suggests she's survived that journey intact. Autobiographical as ever, the singer-songwriter's new Mercy Now, which came out ...

Mary Gauthier even earned a fan in Bob Dylan with her 2005 album 'Mercy Now,' and now returns to her sparse, Southern gothic storytelling on a new set of tunes called 'Between Daylight and Dark.' ...

I have spent my professional career researching and writing about the spirituals, gospel songs and freedom songs of the African American experience. They also provide much of the soundtrack of my life ...

After Mary Gauthier's last release, Mercy Now, I thought, "If she wants to show me some mercy, her next release will be sooner rather than later." Her new release, Between Daylight and Dark, was ...

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier is on the road again, touring behind a new album, “Dark Enough to See the Stars,” that was inspired by the love, loss, grief and grace she experienced ...

The title song on Mercy Now is a song that makes you stop and listen no matter what you're doing. Mary Gauthier sings about "my church and country," saying, They carry the weight of the faithful/Who ...