Mary Gauthier admits she's not the kind of ... a freeing catharsis that is evident in the spare yet potent lyrics of the 11 songs on Rifles & Rosary Beads. "You're going to have to bear witness ...

Country singer Mary Gauthier writes haunted ... Bob Dylan recently recited the lyrics to her song 'I Drink" in their entirety " not a bad endorsement. Her 2007 Lost Highway release, Between ...

Mary Gauthier started gathering material for ... between me and so many of those songs on the radio back then. Songs, especially lyrics, have always been really important to me.

“I don’t have any answers there,” Mary Gauthier ... want your songs to be in feelings, and what things sound like and the range of emotions is the same in all humans.” Gauthier encored ...

When singer and songwriter Mary ... she said. Gauthier is not a big talker herself, keeping her conversation direct and succinct, almost minimal, even in an interview. But her lyrics are poignant ...

Much like so many of her musical heroes, such as John Prine, Lucinda Williams and Tom Waits, Gauthier’s thoughtful lyrics and honest voice shone light on the humanity deep within her ...

Much like so many of her musical heroes, such as John Prine, Lucinda Williams and Tom Waits, Gauthier’s thoughtful lyrics and ... and influence of Mary Gauthier's Songs.” ...

Gauthier’s songs have healed her ... but a story nonetheless. In the words of Mary Gauthier about writing lyrics, “I had no idea but looking back now, I can see I was trying to construct ...

If you've been listening to out singer/songwriter Mary Gauthier for any length of time, say since the release of her 1997 debut album "Dixie Kitchen" (containing the song "Goddamn HIV"), you know that ...

Mary was a secret in her life, and she wanted it to remain so. There was no happy ending, even after the song came out. Gauthier talked only one other time to her birth mother, seeking the ...