“In recovery, they have this saying: ‘You’re only as sick as your secrets.’ And I have very few secrets,” Mary Gauthier says. The songwriter isn’t being dramatic. In songs like “I Drink” and “Mercy ...

If you've been listening to out singer/songwriter Mary Gauthier for any length of time, say since the release of her 1997 debut album "Dixie Kitchen" (containing the song "Goddamn HIV"), you know that ...

Mary Gauthier isn’t just a songwriter, she’s an artist with a mission. With a book about her story (Saved By A Song), her work with the non-profit SongwritingWith:Soldiers, 30 years of sobriety under ...

“Mary’s songwriting speaks to the tender aspects of our humanness: We need her voice in times like these more than we ever have.” That quote from Brandi Carlile was one among a handful from some of ...

Drag Queens In Limousines, the celebrated sophomore album by acclaimed, Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Mary Gauthier, turns 25 this year. To commemorate this milestone, Kill Rock Stars will ...

Mark Rostenko, who won the Lyric Contest Grand Prize in 2016 for his song “Billy (Off The Line),” touched down in Nashville in late January to claim his prize package. A resident of Cotopaxi, Colorado ...

You don’t hear many drumsticks or cymbals on Mary Gauthier’s new disc, Between Daylight and Dark. Instead, the rhythm comes mostly from brushes, mallets and fretless bass. Combined with the shadowy ...

Gauthier’s ninth studio outing, Dark Enough to See the Stars, is as empathetic as anything she’s written. Music in its highest form, she believes, “is empathy. That experience of knowing what it’s ...

Mary Gauthier (pronounced go-shay) didn’t write her first song until she was 35. Before that, she lived one helluva life as a restaurateur, a runaway at 15 and an alcoholic, accumulating some great ...