{"product_id":"mary-gauthier-reckoning-cd-0732388037087","title":"Mary Gauthier - Reckoning [CD]","description":"Reckoning is a dense, carefully nuanced, profoundly complex text, though all nine songs are presented as directly as possible: Mary's voice, her guitar, bits of harmonica. Folk music, of a kind, but not a broadside. Nothing so easy as that. Topical songs with a long view, because she's seen and lived too much of it. Mary's most celebrated songs ” I Drink, Mercy Now, Drag Queens in Limousines ” are confessional stories, closely observed, clear-eyed and compassionate. She sings with the unmistakable languor of her native Louisiana, writes with the bluntness of Boston, where she was once a successful restauranteur, and rewrites with the fierce precision of Nashville, her home for many years. Her 2018 release, Rifles \u0026amp; Rosary Beads, co-written with wounded Iraq war veterans, received a Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album, and an Americana Music Association nomination for Album of the Year. During Covid she wrote and saw published (by MacMillan) Saved by a Song: The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting, part memoir, part reflection on songwriting, through the lens of her most impactful songs. A reckoning, Mary Gauthier writes on the outer sleeve to her newest album, can be personal, political, or spiritual. These songs inhabit all three realms at once.","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56313034703233,"sku":"3364951","price":13.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/mary-gauthier-reckoning-cd.jpg?v=1790194020","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/mary-gauthier-reckoning-cd-0732388037087","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}