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Between Daylight and Dark

Mary GauthierAudio CD
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)

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MARY GAUTHIER - biography

“There's freedom in knowing that you don't have to know it all,” she says, “which is why to me, a song should end with a question, not an answer.” It might seem that after six groundbreaking albums of original songs, more than a dozen years of recording and touring around the world, a harvest of music industry awards, and covers ... Read more in Amazon's Mary Gauthier Store

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  • Audio CD (September 18, 2007)
  • Original Release Date: 2007
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Lost Highway
  • ASIN: B000TWKUNG
  • Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #35,986 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

1. Snakebit
2. Can't Find the Way
3. Between the Daylight And the Dark
4. Last Of the Hobo Kings
5. Before You Leave
6. Please
7. Same Road
8. I Ain't Leaving
9. Soft Place To Land
10. Thanksgiving

Editorial Reviews

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In an era when too many youthful singer-songwriters earn critical plaudits too easily, the more mature Mary Gauthier's track record has been a heartening exception to that rule. Her difficult early life and ability to create soulful, in-your-face poetry from harsh reality, occasional brutality, and hope set her apart. If anything, she surpasses her past work with this stunning live-in-the-studio effort that captures a wide range of scenarios. There's the needy desperation of the love songs "Please" and "Before You Leave" and her brilliant conjuring of the raw displacement, rage, and grief of her fellow New Orleanians in the Hurricane Katrina-inspired "Can't Find the Way" (with a cameo from the legendary Van Dyke Parks). The atmospheric title song, penned by Gauthier and Fred Eaglesmith, teems with the angst of lost love. As the hard-hitting scenario of "Snakebit" carries the tension of classic film noir, "Thanksgiving" captures a bleak holiday prison visit. "The Last of the Hobo Kings" stands as a 21st-century requiem to the vanishing transients of the past, decades before they were renamed "homeless." Joe Henry's spare, understated production only enhances the wallop of these performances. In a world glutted with Americana singer-songwriters, many plagued by a dilettantism that prevents them from plowing too deeply into the dark side of the human condition, Gauthier reaffirms--magnificently--her ability to do that and much more. --Rich Kienzle

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With her 2005 Lost Highway debut, Mercy Now, Mary Gauthier's presence as a notable songwriter increased on an international level. She earned the Americana Music Association's Award for New/Emerging Artist Of The Year, spots on several notable critics' best of lists, and even praise from Bob Dylan on his XM Satellite Radio Show. Her evolution as a singer/songwriter continues with Between Daylight and Dark. Produced by Joe Henry and recorded live in the studio in Henry's basement during the course of five days, Mary discovers the more fragile, tender, and hopeful side of letting the past go and living in the present.

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4.8 out of 5 stars
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4.8 out of 5 stars
Most of her songs tell stories, nearly all of them sad and painful, with depth and honesty. Terry Molnar  |  6 reviewers made a similar statement
As a singer/songwriter she knocks the 'fluffy' new country bimbo's for six, male and female! R. W. Twinney  |  2 reviewers made a similar statement
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Another winner from Mary September 22, 2007
By B.A.
Format:Audio CD
This is yet another amazing, dark, moving album from Mary Gauthier, whose consistency has led to five great albums. Needless to say, I am already a big fan of Mary's.
Upon first listen, this album is more sparse, having been recorded live, lacking the smooth production of her other albums which have collaborated with Gurf Morlix in Nashville. But the intensity begins from the beginning notes. Her singing is a bit rough, less polished, but just as moving. Sometimes I think her music is like a female Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks, with a southern drawl and an older-person's edge. Her "Can't Find the Way," about the flood in her native New Orleans, is gripping. Another standout for me is "Soft Place to Land." If you get interested in Mary through this album, please go back and enjoy, in turn, each of her other four gems.
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Stark, Human, and Glorious November 5, 2007
Format:Audio CD
At Joe's Pub in NYC last Friday night, Mary Gauthier told a largely gray head audience that she doesn't write happy songs. I suppose that is strictly true, but, with apologies to her and her understanding of what she writes, I don't think it's enough to leave it at that. Good things do not often happen in her songs, it is true. But the circumstances of those bad things lead sometimes to acts of love, kindness and, most importantly, carrying on. Her subjects are battered, but not beaten by what life deals them. This has been a constant in her work from the beginning. Check out, for example, the parents in Skeleton Town from her very first CD, the optimistic-despite-it-all Christmas in Paradise from Filth and Fire and the title cut from her last, Mercy Now (an even more moving acoustic, violin-accompanied version of MN closed out Friday's set).

But she has never pulled everything together as well as she does on Between Daylight and Dark. With quiet and unadorned production from Joe Henry, Mary Gauthier has stepped out of whatever shadow Lucinda Williams was still casting over her with her own Car Wheels on a Gravel Road -- a CD stuffed with one great song after another that captures where we are as individuals in and out of love (Before You Leave, Please, and I Ain't Leaving) and as a country grapping with violence and the end of frontiers (Snakebit and Last of the Hobo Kings).

Five stars is way too few for this CD.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Mary Gauthier, Brilliant October 13, 2007
Format:Audio CD
This lady can do no wrong. As a singer/songwriter she knocks the 'fluffy' new country bimbo's for six, male and female! If she had been around at the time she could have fitted in, no trouble, as a woman, with the original Nashville outlaws, Cash. Kristofferson, Nelson and co. Her music goes from strength to strength and I recommend anyone who has not heard her and likes their country,folk, americana music, call it what you will, with an 'edge' to listen, really listen, to this singer songwriter. She is brillient.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars One of her best.
I recently purchased 3 of her CD's and think this is her best work of the three. I love her lyrics and style.
Published 16 months ago by Jay
5.0 out of 5 stars Happy Here!
I love every song on this album...I bought it for "I Ain't Leaving," and usually, you're lucky if you like more than one song from an artist you are fairly unfamiliar with... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Vicki Woods
5.0 out of 5 stars the best of the best from Mary
Finding Mary was a accident. A very good accident. She is so real as her music is so much about her own experience in her life, She shares so much of her self in her writing. Read more
Published on February 3, 2011 by sweetkandy
5.0 out of 5 stars The stories are told..... the images are yours
The first song I heard of Mary Gauthier was "Can't Find The Way", which reveals the pain of Katrina survivors. Read more
Published on June 12, 2010 by Ratso Rizzo
5.0 out of 5 stars Get It!
Another great record (!) of Mary G. Just had to get it and I'm happy I did. Best tracks are 'Between the Daylight and the Dark', 'Snakebit', 'Please' (which gets me to think of Bob... Read more
Published on December 4, 2009 by Fran
5.0 out of 5 stars Love it!
This is the perfect LP (my current favorite music media) for a relaxing, rainy day of reflection.
Peaceful, yet provocative. Read more
Published on March 31, 2009 by Spirit
5.0 out of 5 stars original
Mary Gauthier is original, not a copy or derivative. She is also a poet, whose lyrics are spare and concise in the style of Hemingway. She draws pictures with words. Read more
Published on September 10, 2008 by Terry Molnar
5.0 out of 5 stars Mary Gauthier's "Between Daylight and Dark"
I first heard the song "The Last of the Hobo Kings" on a college radio station in my car. As soon as I got home, I looked it up and bought this CD. Read more
Published on March 11, 2008 by N. Hiza
5.0 out of 5 stars moving
i do not think i can top anything that the other reviewers have said about mary g's musical genius and the haunting beauty of this cd. Read more
Published on January 26, 2008 by andrew l'amour
5.0 out of 5 stars Not just any artist/writer
I first heard "I Ain't Leaving" on the radio while driving through Oregon and couldn't wait until the end of vacation to look up the station on the internet and research their... Read more
Published on January 24, 2008 by Michael P. Starring
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