Mary Gauthier Reckoning Vinyl LP Due Out 25/09/26
Mary Gauthier - Reckoning
Please note this is a pre-order item due for release 25th September 2026
Tracklist:
1. Alcohol and Adderall
2. Heaven
3. Judgement Day
4. Reckoning
5. Soldier of Fortune
6. Some Times
7. Black Ice
8. Gone
9. Thought I Heard a Train
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 & 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.