In a voice parched with pain, Mary Gauthier sings about drunks, drag queens and Death Row inmates. “The characters are saying something [to the listener]: ‘Be grateful you’re not me,'” she told a ...

At 63, Mary Gauthier says that last year was the most successful year in her career to date. She was a late bloomer to begin with: She didn’t start writing songs until she was 35. “I’m still growing ...

Mary Gauthier’s an improbable success story. An acclaimed singer-songwriter, Gauthier didn’t get serious about writing songs until her late 20s. A Grammy nominee who spent most of her early years in ...

Drag Queens In Limousines, the celebrated sophomore album by acclaimed, Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Mary Gauthier, turns 25 this year. To commemorate this milestone, Kill Rock Stars will ...

Embedded in a striking piano chord lurch, Mary Gauthier’s creaky cottonmouth cries out “Oh Lord, what have I done” on the opening track of her latest Lost Highway effort, Between Daylight and Dark. Ms ...

The traumatized U.S. military combat veterans soldiers whose stories are told in song by Mary Gauthier on her stirring new album, “Rifles & Rosary Beads,” had a uniquely qualified collaborator to set ...

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 ...

Over 17 years and seven albums, Mary Gauthier has earned a reputation for baring her soul in song. The Louisiana-born singer-songwriter has just released her first studio album in four years, “Trouble ...

Friday’s announcement of the latest round of Grammy Award nominations remind us once again that some popular music is smartly written, some of it is potently performed, meticulously arranged and ...

Mary Gauthier is no stranger to the gut punch. The lyrical precision on the folk singer's first eight studio albums is testament to her ability to transform her own trauma into a purposeful and ...