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Gag Gifts, Occasion Gifts - Mercy Now
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Manufacturer: Lost Highway
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0602498641682
Label: Lost Highway
Manufacturer: Lost Highway
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Lost Highway
Release Date: 2005-02-15
Studio: Lost Highway
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A spark of redemption illuminates even the darker songs on Mercy Now, the fourth album by Mary Gauthier (pronounced "go-shay"). The influence of her native Louisiana pervades her Southern Gothic songcraft, which first won an audience in the folk clubs of Boston. After a series of releases on independent labels, her Lost Highway debut seems destined to expand that audience significantly. Within her mature, weather-beaten artistry, Dylanesque metaphysics go to Mardi Gras on "Wheel Inside the Wheel"; the naked emotion and eye for detail of "Your Sister Cried" and "Empty Spaces" conjure comparisons with Lucinda Williams; and the plainspoken "I Drink" and "Drop in a Bucket" have the bittersweet bite of the best of John Prine. The spare arrangements of producer/guitarist Gurf Morlix, punctuated by cello, organ, and harmonica, give the material plenty of room to breathe. Gauthier's vocals are half-spoken, half-sung, and all soul. --Don McLeese
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Summary: Bluegrass blues...great find!
Comment: New to this artist and love her sound. Mercy Now is bluegrass with the blues... and so true to life.
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Summary: life-changing song
Comment: The song Mercy Now is life-changing. It's as beautiful as anything I've ever heard, and full of mercy. What a miracle of a song.
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Summary: SUPERB
Comment: I missed this album but picked up on "I Drink" via Bob Dylan's Theme Time Music Hour CD. Mary Gauthier is the real thing - arguments about whether the Hammond B3 has a place in country are moot (Booker T. + Willie Nelson on "Georgia on my Mind"??) - this is soul music of the highest order. If it were the 1970s Millie Jackson would have "I Drink" complete with rap on the charts. And Mary's new album is equally good.
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Summary: EXCELLENT!!
Comment: Mary Gauthier has the most beautiful, haunting voice. "Mercy Now" really shows her New Orleans background, in both lyrics, and instrumental choices. She is an incredible "story teller", putting her life out there for her fans to "pick through".
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Summary: Critiquing the critics
Comment: February 22, 2008
Clotblaster complains Mary Gauthier's lyrics cannot be classified as poetry. The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines poetry as a "writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm." By that definition or any other, Gauthier's songs unquestionably qualify as poetry. Beyond that, whether one enjoys her poetry is simply a matter of personal taste. Clotblaster obviously does not, but based upon the other reviews posted this is decidedly a minority view.
Mary's many admirers include those responsible for her invitation to the Newport Folk Festival, and such notable singer-songwriters as John Prine and Guy Clark, for whom she has opened, as well as Bob Dylan and many others. I realize Mary's music is not going to be universally admired -- what music is? But I love it -- it hits my musical G spot -- that "specific emotional response" the poet seeks to touch.
As for criticism of Mary's twang, this gal grew up in Louisiana. If you haven't noticed, folks down there talk that way -- naturally.
To "A Kid's Review", if you've got a cat that can sing like Mary, I suggest you get an agent. You and that cat can make some real money.
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