Downstate October 2026! This is a nice list, with frequent and fresh quality updates. Please follow and heart Americana Highways’ Apple Music playlist, “Downstate,” curated by Rodney Metoyer, which has just been newly updated! Find new quality music that maybe you haven’t heard of, or hadn’t realized they had something new, or heck, just enjoy […]
Nashville-based singer, songwriter, and guitarist Mary Gauthier doesn’t make records often. The newly released Reckoning is her first since 2022’s Dark Enough to See the Stars, which was her first since 2018’s Rifles & Rosary Beads. Like its predecessors, the new one was worth the wait. Gauthier’s arresting vocals, which are front and center throughout […]
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Mary Gauthier – Reckoning There’s a little vocal treatment on the opening tune “Alcohol & Adderall,” but it’s applied liberally & doesn’t interfere much with the warmth of Mary Gauthier’s voice. The music & lyrics are interlaced with expertise & experience in the tradition of past material from folky voices such as Cris Williamson & […]
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Mary Gauthier Finds a Hopeful Place When Nashville-based Mary Gauthier appeared on Hulu’s I Love You, America a few years ago, host Sarah Silverman noted that one of her staffers found the folk singer-songwriter’s music so depressing “she had to listen to Morrissey to cheer up.” It’s true that Gauthier’s albums have reflected her difficult life experiences—including abandonment by her mother when she was a child, struggles related to being gay, […]
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