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Artist: Ember Swift
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REALLYMUSICRADIO presents
Mary Gauthier
If there were no story to tell about this remarkable artist, if there were nothing but the music that haunts every track on Mercy Now, that alone would make the case for Mary Gauthier as one of the most challenging artists to rise up from the underground in a long, long time.
These past few years, people have started catching on, from grad students clustered into Boston cafes to crowds cheering before the main stages at Newport, Telluride, the Strawberry Music Festival, and in venues beyond our shore. Jon Pareles of the New York Times picked her album Filth & Fire as the top indie release of 2002. Rolling Stone acclaimed her "American Gothic tales . delving into physical abuse, drug addiction, abject poverty, and homelessness." CMJ lauded her "piercing honesty" and "powerful singing - her voice cracks more out of weariness than frailty."
But there is a story here, strange and scary, as compelling as the music. Gauthier's path has wound through devastation and despair. She has beaten back demons, lived off the streets, sunk to the bottom of life, turned 18 behind bars, emerged from darkness, and to completely confuse things won notice as a respected restaurateur - all before writing her first song.
"What is the difference between a truth teller and a great songwriter?" she muses. "I think it comes from writing about the struggle. Instead of running from the pain, a truth teller runs head on into it. Somewhere along the way I figured out that the most intimate part of me is the most universal part of me. I've figured out that the artist's job is to reveal that universal human experience. There's got to be a way to go inside and pull out the bigger truth and use it as a mirror in which other people can see themselves."
Of course, there is. Without it, there's no explanation for Mercy Now, for these songs and stories that can change your life.
"Every living thing could use a little mercy now . I love life and life itself could use some mercy now."
- Mary Gauthier
 | Mercy Now features 10 songs overflowing with beauty, raw emotion, and unflinching honesty. True American roots music.
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 | Media in Europe call Mary 'The People's Heart of Alternative Country' and fans will find plenty of the grit they love in her new songs about characters whose moral qualities are tied to spiritual struggles with chords that are thin, frayed, and well-worn.
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Mary's website
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