| Mary Gauthier |
| Rifles & Rosary Beads |
Mary Gauthier — Rifles & Rosary Beads (Jan. 26, 2018)
Born: 11 March 1962, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Genres: Folk, Country, Americana
Occupation: Songwriter, musician, writing teacher, restaurateur
Instruments: Vocals, guitar
Location: Nashville, TN
Album release: January 26, 2018
Record Label: Thirty Tigers
Duration:
Tracks:
01 Soldiering On 5:32
02 Got Your Six 2:38
03 The War After the Wa 3:44
04 Still on the Ride 5:03
05 Bullet Holes in the Sky 4:46
06 Brothers 2:50
07 Rifles & Rosary Beads 3:37
08 Morphine 1~2 4:04
09 It’s Her Love 4:18
10 Iraq 4:18
11 Stronger Together 3:41
℗ 2018 In The Black
Discography:
• Dixie Kitchen (1997)
• Drag Queens in Limousines (1999)
• Filth and Fire (2002)
• Mercy Now (2005)
• Between Daylight and Dark (2007)
• Genesis (The Early Years) ( 2008) — 15~track compilation from the first three albums
• The Foundling (2010)
• The Foundling Alone (2011) Acoustic Demos of songs in development, from The Foundling
• Live at Blue Rock (2012) 11 mixed new and old tracks plus hidden track, “Mercy Now”
• Trouble and Love (2014)
• Rifles & Rosary Beads (2018) — Releasing January 26th. Co~written with U.S. veterans and their families, the eleven deeply personal songs on this album reveal the untold stories, and powerful struggles that these veterans and their spouses deal with abroad and after returning home.
About Mary Gauthier
★λ★• → Alt~country singer/songwriter Mary Gauthier exploded onto the scene in 1999 following her self~released sophomore effort, Drag Queens in Limousines. The album, which garnered her a Crossroads Silver Star and a four~star rating in Rolling Stone, had critics comparing her self~described “country noir” to the likes of Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, John Prine, and, not surprisingly, Lucinda Williams. The success of Drag Queens led to main~stage shows at festivals around the country and multiple tours in Europe.
★λ★• → Embraced by critics, folkies, and No Depression fans alike, Gauthier’s warmly candid treatment of her fringe~dwelling subjects rings true, as it never verges on sentimental; her characters’ downtrodden lives are never coldly exploited. Instead, these are people she knows, whom she met after dropping out of her Louisiana high school and stealing the family car at the age of 15, only to find herself in detox at 16 and jailed in Kansas City at 18. Her own wayward path led her to culinary school and, eventually, she opened a successful restaurant in Boston’s Back Bay — Dixie Kitchen — which she sold after her music career started to take off.
★λ★• → Filth & Fire, Gauthier’s third album, was produced by former Lucinda Williams sidekick Gurf Morlix and released in July 2002. Mercy Now was issued in 2005 by Lost Highway, followed by the Joe Henry~produced Between Daylight and Dark in 2007. Gauthier next released the autobiographical The Foundling, produced by Mike Timmins of the Cowboy Junkies, on Razor & Tie Records in 2010. The album was a breakthrough, celebrated internationally.
★λ★• → Gauthier underwent a deep personal loss before recording her next effort and wrote songs during her grieving period. She abandoned the songs as too dark to record. Gauthier wrote new songs “through the darkness to get to the truth.” She convened a small group of musicians at Nashville’s Skaggs Place Studio and cut them live to tape. The end result, Trouble & Love, was released in June of 2014. ~ Kim Reick Kunoff & Thom Jurek
Soldiering On
by Mary Gauthier/Jennifer Marino/
I was bound to something bigger
More important than a single human life
I wore my uniform with honor
My service was not a sacrifice
But what saves you in the battle
Can kill you at home a soldier, soldiering on
You don’t fight for yourself
You fight for the ones by your side
They do the same for you
And to live you must be willing to die
But what saves you in the battle
Can kill you at home a soldier, soldiering on
Suck it up shut it down it don’t matter how you feel
Mission first, just drive on, a soldiers a cog inside a wheel
Up or down, all for one, the closest family I have known
Soldiers soldiering on
I was bound to something bigger
More important than a single human life
I wore my uniform with honor
My service was not a sacrifice
But what saves you in the battle
Can kill you at home I’m a soldier, soldiering on
I’m a soldier, soldiering on
Notes:
Co~written with U.S. veterans and their families, the eleven deeply personal songs on this album reveal the untold stories, and powerful struggles that these veterans and their spouses deal with abroad and after returning home.
Pre~order the CD version Rifles & Rosary Beads: http://www.marygauthier.com/s…/pre-order-rifles-rosary-
Pre~order the digital version Rifles & Rosary Beads Amazon Music International smarturl.it/gauthier-amz
Website: http://www.marygauthier.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/marygauthier_
Songwriting: http://www.songwritingwithsoldiers.org/
Label: http://www.thirtytigers.com/
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| Mary Gauthier |
| Rifles & Rosary Beads |
Genres: Folk, Country, Americana
Occupation: Songwriter, musician, writing teacher, restaurateur
Instruments: Vocals, guitar
Location: Nashville, TN
Album release: January 26, 2018
Record Label: Thirty Tigers
Duration:
Tracks:
01 Soldiering On 5:32
02 Got Your Six 2:38
03 The War After the Wa 3:44
04 Still on the Ride 5:03
05 Bullet Holes in the Sky 4:46
06 Brothers 2:50
07 Rifles & Rosary Beads 3:37
08 Morphine 1~2 4:04
09 It’s Her Love 4:18
10 Iraq 4:18
11 Stronger Together 3:41
℗ 2018 In The Black
Discography:
• Dixie Kitchen (1997)
• Drag Queens in Limousines (1999)
• Filth and Fire (2002)
• Mercy Now (2005)
• Between Daylight and Dark (2007)
• Genesis (The Early Years) ( 2008) — 15~track compilation from the first three albums
• The Foundling (2010)
• The Foundling Alone (2011) Acoustic Demos of songs in development, from The Foundling
• Live at Blue Rock (2012) 11 mixed new and old tracks plus hidden track, “Mercy Now”
• Trouble and Love (2014)
• Rifles & Rosary Beads (2018) — Releasing January 26th. Co~written with U.S. veterans and their families, the eleven deeply personal songs on this album reveal the untold stories, and powerful struggles that these veterans and their spouses deal with abroad and after returning home.
About Mary Gauthier
★λ★• → Alt~country singer/songwriter Mary Gauthier exploded onto the scene in 1999 following her self~released sophomore effort, Drag Queens in Limousines. The album, which garnered her a Crossroads Silver Star and a four~star rating in Rolling Stone, had critics comparing her self~described “country noir” to the likes of Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, John Prine, and, not surprisingly, Lucinda Williams. The success of Drag Queens led to main~stage shows at festivals around the country and multiple tours in Europe.
★λ★• → Embraced by critics, folkies, and No Depression fans alike, Gauthier’s warmly candid treatment of her fringe~dwelling subjects rings true, as it never verges on sentimental; her characters’ downtrodden lives are never coldly exploited. Instead, these are people she knows, whom she met after dropping out of her Louisiana high school and stealing the family car at the age of 15, only to find herself in detox at 16 and jailed in Kansas City at 18. Her own wayward path led her to culinary school and, eventually, she opened a successful restaurant in Boston’s Back Bay — Dixie Kitchen — which she sold after her music career started to take off.
★λ★• → Filth & Fire, Gauthier’s third album, was produced by former Lucinda Williams sidekick Gurf Morlix and released in July 2002. Mercy Now was issued in 2005 by Lost Highway, followed by the Joe Henry~produced Between Daylight and Dark in 2007. Gauthier next released the autobiographical The Foundling, produced by Mike Timmins of the Cowboy Junkies, on Razor & Tie Records in 2010. The album was a breakthrough, celebrated internationally.
★λ★• → Gauthier underwent a deep personal loss before recording her next effort and wrote songs during her grieving period. She abandoned the songs as too dark to record. Gauthier wrote new songs “through the darkness to get to the truth.” She convened a small group of musicians at Nashville’s Skaggs Place Studio and cut them live to tape. The end result, Trouble & Love, was released in June of 2014. ~ Kim Reick Kunoff & Thom Jurek
Soldiering On
by Mary Gauthier/Jennifer Marino/
I was bound to something bigger
More important than a single human life
I wore my uniform with honor
My service was not a sacrifice
But what saves you in the battle
Can kill you at home a soldier, soldiering on
You don’t fight for yourself
You fight for the ones by your side
They do the same for you
And to live you must be willing to die
But what saves you in the battle
Can kill you at home a soldier, soldiering on
Suck it up shut it down it don’t matter how you feel
Mission first, just drive on, a soldiers a cog inside a wheel
Up or down, all for one, the closest family I have known
Soldiers soldiering on
I was bound to something bigger
More important than a single human life
I wore my uniform with honor
My service was not a sacrifice
But what saves you in the battle
Can kill you at home I’m a soldier, soldiering on
I’m a soldier, soldiering on
Notes:
Co~written with U.S. veterans and their families, the eleven deeply personal songs on this album reveal the untold stories, and powerful struggles that these veterans and their spouses deal with abroad and after returning home.
Pre~order the CD version Rifles & Rosary Beads: http://www.marygauthier.com/s…/pre-order-rifles-rosary-
Pre~order the digital version Rifles & Rosary Beads Amazon Music International smarturl.it/gauthier-amz
Website: http://www.marygauthier.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/marygauthier_
Songwriting: http://www.songwritingwithsoldiers.org/
Label: http://www.thirtytigers.com/
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