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Artist | Mary Gauthier
Title | Rifles & Rosary Beads
Genre | Folk/Rock Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 44:51
Label | In The Black Records Store | 2018
Catalog | ITBCD007 Rip | 2018
Bitrate | 209 kbps Size | 70.59 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. Soldiering On 5:34
02. Got Your Six 2:40
03. The War After The War 3:46
04. Still On The Ride 5:05
05. Bullet Holes In The Sky 4:48
06. Brothers 2:52
07. Rifles & Rosary Beads 3:39
08. Morphine 1-2 4:06
09. It's Her Love 4:20
10. Iraq 4:20
11. Stronger Together 3:41
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Alt-country singer/songwriter Mary Gauthier exploded onto the scene in 1999
following her self-released sophomore effort, Drag Queens in Limousines.
The album, which garnered her a Crossroads Silver Star and a four-star
rating in Rolling Stone, had critics comparing her self-described 'country
noir' to the likes of Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, John Prine, and, not
surprisingly, Lucinda Williams. The success of Drag Queens led to
main-stage shows at festivals around the country and multiple tours in
Europe.
Singer/songwriter Gauthier's catalog includes nine previous albums of
confessional, autobiographical, and topical songs possessed of searing
honesty, strength, and courage. On "Rifles And Rosary Beads", the focus
shifts to assist others in telling their stories. Since 2013, she has been
involved with Songwriting with Soldiers, a nonprofit founded by Darden
Smith in 2012. Anyone who has seen her play during this period has
witnessed how the experience of collaborating with veterans and their
families has transformed her own approach to performing: Roughly half of
her live material is from her participation in SWS. The songs on this
recording are released with full permission and participation from her
collaborators, and a portion of the proceeds will benefit SWS.
The music fits comfortably inside Gauthier's simple, rambling, storyteller
style, but its lyric content is emotionally and intellectually loaded and
revelatory. Gauthier co-wrote with four female and four male veterans, as
well as six military spouses (all are credited) and some songwriting pals
including Beth Nielsen Chapman, Ashley Cleveland, and Georgia Middleman.
The laid-back, countrified "The War After The War" introduces the spouses'
wrenching story: 'Who's gonna care for the ones who care for the ones who
went to war'. Album-opener "Soldiering On" is one of two songs she crafted
with Jennifer Marino, a veteran of the US Marines.
It distills the intentions and pitfalls of many who enlist: 'I was bound to
something bigger/More important than a single human life/I wore my uniform
with honor/My service was not sacrifice/But what saves you in the
battle/Can kill you at home'. The blues-tinged "Still On The Ride" and the
hushed folk ballad "Morphine 1-2" confront the weight of the ordeal
experienced by those with survivors' guilt. The slow-burning rock choogle
of "Brothers" offers the viewpoint of military women who struggle for
equality with their male peers. The haunted piano in "Bullet Holes in Sky"
was co-written with Jamie Trent, a '90s-era Persian Gulf Navy veteran who
served on the USS George Washington (a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier),
who relays his complex feelings about Veterans Day.
On closer "Stronger Together," Gauthier again collaborates with the spouses
of the returning vets from the EOD (Explosive Ordinance Device, or bomb
squad) who can only look rely on one another for support. Rifles and Rosary
Beads is unlike any other record. It edifies and empathizes with the
experiences of its participants in delivering brutal yet tender truths; it
confronts listeners to embrace without judgment the struggle of war
survivors, while experientially relating the extended fact that over 7,400
veterans commit suicide each year. Gauthier and her collaborators look into
the gaping maw of war, its trauma, isolation, rage, and loneliness, to
reveal the human faces and hearts of its witnesses. Popular music can do no
more than this.
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