Pre-Order: Mary Gauthier * Reckoning [New LP] RSD 25 and even the Cars

and even the Cars

A luminous journey inviting us to reconnect with what within us longs to shine

while Hasaan himself talks of the pianist Elmo Hope as the man who brought him closer to the 'mystery of music'

all the way through to the orchestral Back To Life

Pre-Order: Mary Gauthier * Reckoning [New LP] RSD 25 and even the CarsReckoning 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