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For Mary Gauthier, songwriting is storytelling. And for nearly three decades, the artist has used her music to chronicle the ...

Gauthier begins, “My father could use a little mercy now.” In that first verse, she sings that the fruits of his labor fall and rot slowly on the ground. “His work is almost over/ It won’t be long and ...

On Easter, Patti Smith says, “Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.” Thibodeaux native Mary Gauthier’s art bring this thought to mind; on 2005’s Mercy Now, she ...