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MARY
GAUTHIER
with guest artist
DIANA JONES
One of the most
challenging artists to rise up from the underground in a long, long time,
Mary Gauthier (it's pronounced go-SHAY) writes songs that tell hard truths
with a desolate eloquence.
Gauthier's path has wound through devastation and
despair. She beat back demons, learned from the streets, sank to the bottom
of life, turned 18 behind bars, emerged from darkness and
— just
to completely confuse things
— won notice as a
respected restaurateur, all before writing her first song.
As a singer and
songwriter she garnered major acclaim, starting with her first album. Her
second, Drag Queens in
Limousines, received rave reviews from MOJO, Q and Gavin Report.
She received an Independent Music Award and was named Country Artist of the
Year by GLAMA.
Her next release, Filth & Fire, was called by No
Depression "the best singer songwriter album of the year" and named by
The New York Times the top indie release of 2002, while CMJ lauded her
"piercing honesty" and "powerful singing
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her voice cracks more out of weariness than
frailty."
The acclaim grew in 2005, as Gauthier released her
stunning debut on the Lost Highway label, Mercy Now. The brilliantly
dark, moving album was "discovered" repeatedly over the two years following
its release, ending up on a score of best-of-the-year lists, including the
Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and No Depression.
The last couple of years have seen Gauthier, a New Orleans resident,
dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Between Daylight and
Dark, her new Lost Highway album, incorporates those experiences.
Produced by Joe Henry, with guest appearances by Van Dyke Parks and Loudon
Wainwright, the new album confirms anew Gauthier's remarkable talents as a
writer and performer. It also finds her, once again, aiming her compass at
the sky and searching for home.
It is, in fact, the longing for home that has motivated many of Gauthier's
most indelible songs. It fills the new album with both hope and anguish,
with faith as well as fear.
Opening | Diana Jones has been compared to Iris
Dement and Gillian Welch,
Emily Dickinson & Loretta Lynn.
Adopted as an infant and raised in New York, Diana left home at the age of
15 in search of her roots. Attracted early on to the music of Johnny Cash
and Patsy Cline, it wasn't until she was reunited with her birth family and
the music of the Eastern Tennessee hills some years later, that she
discovered why that music had always moved her. After establishing a solid
folk career in the fertile Austin music scene of the late 90’s, she has
steadily gained new listeners and rave reviews. From the mournful lament of
a dance hall girl, to the stomping melodic rant of a young woman's burial
instructions, each of her original songs draws life from the rich cross
currents of old timey, country blues and mountain music.
Thu Nov 8 | 8 pm
CSPS | 1103 Third St SE | Cedar Rapids
$18 advance | $21 day of
show
Ticket info
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