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MUSIC<br />
Mary Gauthier<br />
Trouble & Love<br />
In the Black Records, CD<br />
Fans of Mary Gauthier have long<br />
known she’s a first-rate tunesmith.<br />
Keeping with her stellar reputation,<br />
the singer-songwriter’s new Trouble<br />
& Love adds a fresh chapter to her<br />
already significant body of work.<br />
It’s an album of fierce intelligence<br />
and unflinching emotional exposure.<br />
Throughout, Gauthier writes about<br />
the end of a relationship and does<br />
so with bull’s-eye precision.<br />
Trouble & Love is primarily recorded<br />
live, sans studio fuss. The<br />
direct approach shows. With its<br />
stirring Hammond organ sound and<br />
snarly blues riffs, “When a Woman<br />
Goes Cold” is so raw and immediate,<br />
it could pass for a lost track<br />
from Bob Dylan and The Band’s<br />
The Basement Tapes.<br />
Equally striking are the lyrics,<br />
delivered by Gauthier in a yearning<br />
drawl reminiscent of Lucinda Williams.<br />
The narrator is numb as she<br />
watches a lover walk out the door.<br />
There’s no shouting or recrimination,<br />
no accusations or tears.<br />
(continued)<br />
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