#Mary Gauthier

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: Keith Richards - “I’m Waiting for the Man”

If there’s anyone unkempt and druggy enough to convincingly cover “I’m Waiting for the Man,” it’s Keith Richards.

And so it shall be.

The Rolling Stone re-recorded the Velvet Underground & Nico track for the forthcoming various-artists collection The Power of the Heart: A Tribute to Lou Reed. It’s also the lead single.

With a short a capella intro and higher fidelity than the original, Richards nevertheless stays close to Reed and the Velvet’s arrangement while transforming it into the quintessential Keef Riff Hard cut. Not small feat, that, but Richards knows of which he sings on “I’m Waiting for the Man.”

“To me, Lou stood out,” Richards said in a statement. “The real deal! Something important to American music and to all music. I miss him and his dog.”

Arriving on 4/20 - natch - The Power of the Heart includes contributions from a motley array of admirers including Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Rufus Wainwright, Lucinda Williams, Maxim Ludwig and Angel Olsen, Rickie Lee Jones, Mary Gauthier, Bobby Rush, Automatic, the Afghan Whigs, Rosanne Cash and Brogan Bentley.

Grade card: Keith Richards - “I’m Waiting for the Man” - B+

3/4/24

#Youtube #keith richards #lou reed #the velvet underground #I’m waiting for the man #the power of the heart: a tribute to lou reed #the velvet underground & nico #the rolling stones #joan jet and the blackhearts #rufus wainwright #lucinda williams #maxim ludwig #angel olsen #rickie lee jones #mary gauthier #bobby rush #automatic #the afghan whigs #rosanne cash #brogan bentley

[the4chambersofmystery]

"Every living thing could use a little mercy now

Only the hand of grace can end the race towards another mushroom cloud

People in power, they'll do anything to keep their crown

I love life and life itself could use some mercy now"

#mary gauthier #mercy now #🇵🇸 #🇮🇱 #Spotify

[yourdailyqueer]

Mary Gauthier

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 11 March 1962

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Singer, songwriter, musician, writer, entrepreneur 

#Mary Gauthier #lesbianism #wlw #lgbt #lgbtq #female #lesbian #1962 #white #singer #songwriter #musician #writer #entrepreneur

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

I just finished reading a book on songwriting called "Head, Heart and Hands" by my friend Clive Ridgeway, the director of Cape Town School of Songwriting. Here's two biggies I learned from his book:

One - I have always struggled with talking about “Music and Song”. I’ve tripped over words when discussing them because of a gap in my understanding. Clive wrote that “a song is more than music, because a song is a composition of both words and notes”. In other words, artists compose words to pair with music to create meaning and connection. While music is in and of itself is moving and cathartic, songs, when written in a certain way are moving, cathartic, and transformational.

Well, YES!

Two: I’ve also struggled with discussing the performative aspects of music and song. Clive writes, “Songwriting is not the domain of the virtuoso, but the brave. The virtuoso’s focus is on performance, perfection of craft, with the intention to be in the limelight, to impress, while the songwriters focus is on dissolving the separation of stage from seating. For artist songwriters, music assists in pulling the listener closer; their songs confide.”

YES!

Virtuoso’s, prodigy’s, diva’s, crooners, vocal powerhouses, and maestro’s wow an audience with their prowess, their superior ability. They impress, bedazzle, do what regular people cannot do. It's about execution, skill, triumph, and noteworthy achievement.

But artist songwriters are primarily in the business of human connection. The job is simple expression of complex thought. The mission is to close a gap in the world, an aching hole longing to be by filled with compassion and love. For the artist songwriter, message comes first, music is employed to amplify truth and message.

What is the message? The message is this: I am not better than you, and we are all in the same boat. We need each other, so, let me confide in you. I will expose my hopes, and dreams, wins and losses, strengths and weaknesses, so you might recognize yourself there. We then become us - you are not alone, and neither am I. The purpose of songwriting as an art is not to bedazzle, it to generate compassion, which leads to empathy, and empathy leads to action.

[Mary Gauthier]

#songs #songwriting #words and music #Mary Gauthier #music #singing #performance #words and writing

[married-to-a-redhead]

Yeah, we all could use a little mercy now

I know we don't deserve it, but we need it anyhow

We hang in the balance, dangle 'tween hell and hallowed ground

And every single one of us could use some mercy now

Every single one of us could use some mercy now

Every single one of us could use some mercy now

#my music #no one will like this #lyrics i love #mary gauthier #Spotify

[dovejuice]

#Mary Gauthier #folk #Spotify #drag queens in limousines

[sinful-roxy]

My father could use a little mercy now The fruits of his labor fall and rot slowly on the ground His work is almost over, it won't be long, he won't be around I love my father, he could use some mercy now My brother could use a little mercy now He's a stranger to freedom, he's shackled to his fear and his doubt The pain that he lives in, it's almost more than living will allow I love my brother, he could use some mercy now

#mary gauthier #mercy now #Youtube

[thedepressedpelican]

#mary gauthier #mercy now #Spotify

[juliancallejo]

Our Lady Of The Shooting Stars.

(Comenzó a sonar esta canción cuando estaba pensando cómo titular esta foto. La cosa iba de galaxias, pero…)

#fotografía #photography #original photographers #photographers on tumblr #nights #noches #paisaje #landscape #mary gauthier #madrid #julian callejo #Youtube

[one-cd-at-a-time]

Mary Gauthier (Drag Queens In Limousines)

Cara: Lucky Stars

Bill: I Drink

#Mary Gauthier #onecd #music #musicians

[krispyweiss]

Tennessee Freedom Singers Release “Tennessee Rise” in Support of Gloria Johnson

Rarely does an all-star song for a good cause result in good music.

But the Tennessee Freedom Singers bucked the trend of “Do They Know it’s Christmas?,” “We are the World” and “That’s What Friends are For” with “Tennessee Rise,” a track to raise awareness and funds for Gloria Jones’ run for the U.S. Senate.

A gospel-inspired, bluesy shuffle with lyrics that allude to the Civil Rights moment and Volunteer State music, the five-minute song features more than 35 artists, including Allison Russell, Emmylou Harris, Amanda Shires, Brandi Carlile, Brittany Howard, Elizabeth Cook, Katie Pruitt, Langhorne Slim, Maren Morris, and Mary Gauthier singing alone and together in a call for a better day.

Tennessee Rise, the sleep out of your eyes/you thought tomorrow’d never come, they sing on the chorus.

The song is worthy simply for existing. The fact that it’s sonically pleasing and only occasionally overwrought is borderline miraculous.

3/13/24

#Youtube #the tennessee freedom singers #tennessee rise #allison russell #emmylou harris #amanda shires #brandi carlile #brittany howard #alabama shakes #elizabeth cook #katie pruitt #langhorn slim #maren morris #mary gauthier

[howlingmoonradio]

June 9th Playlist

This week’s episode is inspired by the recent performance we took in at SPAC with Alison Krauss and Robert Plant with help from guitarslinger JD McPherson. So we begin there and on Side 2 we head up to Toronto, Ontario to hear some unreleased live cuts from The Rolling Stones, recorded at the El Macombo Tavern in 1977. Details to follow below..

Side A Howling at the Moon-Hank Williams Head Over Heels-JD McPherson Gone, Gone, Gone-Alison Krauss and Robert Plant Trouble with My Lover-Alison Krauss and Robert Plant Teeth Marks-S.G. Goodman Ghost On-Angel Olsen Truckers and Troubadours-Mary Gauthier Every Single Storied Flameout-Drive by Truckers

Side B Hot Stuff-Rolling Stones Star, Star-Rolling Stones Let’s Spend the Night Together-Rolling Stones Only You Know and I Know-Delaney and Bonnie She’s Fine-A.C. Reed and Bonnie Raitt Car Wash-Christian McBride Quartet  

#Alison Krauss #Robert Plant #Rolling Stones #Mary Gauthier #Drive by Truckers

[sonicziggy]

"Truckers and Troubadours" by Mary Gauthier https://ift.tt/NoXUyRf

#IFTTT #Spotify #Mary Gauthier

[concerthopperblog]

Review Roundup: Nicki Bluhm and Mary Gauthier

As Summer approaches the album release schedule gets tighter so it's time for another review roundup. This week, I've got new releases from veteran Americana artists; Avondale Drive by Nicki Bluhm and Dark Enough to See the Stars by Mary Gauthier.

Nicki Bluhm- Avondale Drive- Released June 3 The second solo album from vocalist Nicki Bluhm since her split with The Gramblers finds her exploring a new world of single living, middle-age dating, and self-love, but also a wide range of musical styles that have influenced her.

The songs on Avondale Drive cover a wide range of roots music subgenres but are united by the consistent lyrical voice of Bluhm. One of the album's highlights is “Love to Share,” a co-write with AJ Croce that leans into both Bluhm and Croce's penchant for blue-eyed soul. It's a realization that love doesn't have to be given away but can be shared without diminishing the source. The gentle spoken interplay between Bluhm and Croce is a delightful throwback to the banter of classic Muscle Shoals and Motown soul tracks.

A song in a similar vein is “Friends (How to Do It),” this time a duet and co-write with The Wood Brothers' Oliver Wood. Here, Bluhm pokes fun at the modern dating scene, continually trying to find a single pal to hang out with but discovering too many think “hangout” and “date” are the same thing. “It's easy being angry, but harder being sad” Bluhm laments before asking “can you pick me up in your pickup truck without saying 'I'm gonna make her mine?” Like Croce in the previous song, Wood plays the straight man, tossing verbal softballs for Bluhm to turn into one-liners.

But the absolute star of Avondale Drive is “Leaving Me (Is the Loving Thing to Do).” It is so firmly rooted in the trappings of '60s classic country that I had to check and confirm it wasn't a cover. If Patsy Cline had performed this song, it wouldn't seem out of place. When Bluhm croons “You're already gone, so go” it brings up so many memorable hook lines, from Skeeter Davis wondering how the sun can go on shining while the world ends to Lesley Gore insisting she can cry at her own birthday party if she wants.

There's a lot to love on Avondale Drive. It's not just Bluhm's strongest solo effort, it's stronger than any of her Gramblers albums too. In a year that has, thus far, underwhelmed for knockout releases, Bluhm stakes her claim as one of the exception.

Mary Gauthier- Dark Enough to See the Stars- Released June 3 If Nicki Bluhm surprised, Mary Gauthier delivered exactly what you'd expect from one of Americana's most respected songwriters. There are no catchy hooks here, no verbal interplay. Gauthier doesn't play that game. She's always been as direct a songwriter as there comes, pulling no punches on tough subjects (see her amazing last album Rifles and Rosary Beads for an album willing to get very uncomfortable).

On Dark Enough to See the Stars, Gauthier pours one out for friends lost; John Prine, David Olney, Nanci Griffith, and so many more. On “How Could You Be Gone?”, Gauthier relates the surreal experience of a friend's funeral. “I'm looking for you in the crowd, looking for you in the clouds.” The album's title track continues this theme with “days go by, nothing works. I can't believe how much this hurts. I don't know where you are. It's dark enough to see the stars.”

But interspersed with the pain is a renewed appreciation of what joy is left. “Amsterdam” conveys the pure joy of travel to a favorite destination after a long period of pandemic isolation. “I Thank God For You” is about as straightforward a love song as you could want.

But it's “Truckers and Troubadours” that truly captures the soul of what makes Mary Gauthier tick. Co-written with a truck driver friend, the song is an ode to the long haul drivers who kept the nation supplied with essentials while everyone else was locked down. But it also muses on the similarities between truck drivers and traveling musicians. “On the stage, on the road, pack it up for the load. Thousands of miles left to do, just passing through.”

Is Dark Enough to See the Stars the gut punch that Rifles and Rosary Beads was? No, but nothing ever could be. But there's enough pain, pleasure, insight, and hindsight to keep any Mary Gauthier fan happy.

#americana music #nicki bluhm #mary gauthier #album review #2022 #review #concerthopper #new music #music

[bluestownmusic]

New Release: Mary Gauthier - Dark Enough To See The Stars

  Mary Gauthier – Dark Enough To See The Stars   Mary Gauthier – Dark Enough To See The Stars Format: CD – Vinyl along with a copy of “Saved by a Song” Hard cover book Label: Thirty Tigers Release date: June 3, 2022 Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter, and now accomplished author, Mary Gauthier will release her new album ‘Dark Enough To See The Stars.’ Over the course of eight studio albums, Mary…

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#Mary Gauthier #Thirty Tigers Records

[gideonthefirst]

i really do love it here and am so so glad to have the access to touring musicians that i do by virtue of living here but sometimes i really get overwhelmed by how much i'd love to see a certain artist in nashville specifically. beloved city of music

#oh to see mary gauthier or rhiannon giddens. in nashville #oh to see rhiannon giddens at the ryman........ #personal