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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...