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For Mary Gauthier, songwriting is storytelling. And for nearly three decades, the artist has used her music to chronicle the ...

On Easter, Patti Smith says, “Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.” Thibodeaux native Mary Gauthier’s art bring this thought to mind; on 2005’s Mercy Now, she ...