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Lyrics & Music Mary Gauthier - Filth & Fire (2002)

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"Committed, socially-conscious lyrics, often verging on bleakness and hopelessness, wrapped up in upbeat layers of sounds supplied by harmonica, fiddle, lap steel, mandolin and slide guitar."

Track Listings

01. Walk Through the Fire

02. Long Way to Fall

03. Sugar Cane

04. Merry Go Round

05. Good-Bye

06. Camelot Motel

07. After You're Gone

08. The Ledge

09. Christmas in Paradise

10. For Rose

11. Sun Fades the Color of Everything

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N,B. This is not my rip, and Track 04, Merry Go Round, stops abruptly at 03:24 - it should be 05:02.

In an attempt to compensate for the truncated track, I've included in the second archive a 12:30 NPR segment about MG:

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NPR: All Things Considered, November 8, 2002. John Ydstie goes to a club called the Birchmere in Alexandria, Va., to hear the opening act, Mary Gauthier. Gauthier was an adopted child, a troubled teen, then a philosophy student, and later a restaurant owner. Now she writes and sings songs. Mary Gauthier talks about songwriting and how it relates to philosophy. (12:30)

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Filth & Fire

Munich Records MRCD 226

by Marianne Ebertowski

If ever an album scared the living daylights out of me, it's Mary Gauthier's newest release Filth and Fire. It is scary because it takes you to places you would rather not know about and - should you ever have been to some of them - would rather forget. It is scary because Gauthier has the guts to sing about personal experiences with an honesty and intensity that is sometimes hard to bear, which somehow knocks the ground out from under your feet. But most of all, Filth and Fire scares me because it sounds so much like a one-way ticket back into a private, inescapable hell.

Filth & Fire is the account of a lifelong attempt to keep standing and to get up after every knock-down. Where Gauthier's "official debut" Dragqueens in Limousines revealed only a tip of the iceberg, Filth & Fire shoves the whole ugly, cold thing straight into your face: it is the iceberg, or at least a big chunk of it with, as I fear, a lot worse still hidden.

The album starts with the threatening sound of a Hammond B-3 organ. Then Gauthier's voice comes in with the words:

In the darkness it finds me

the terrible fire

it don't matter how much I pray

The flames leap and burn me

There's nothing I can do

To make the fear go away

I try to keep moving

Try not to look back

Push really hard on the stone

But I walk through the fire alone

It's a voice that gets to you immediately, not because of its beauty but because it expresses intense pain, frustration, loneliness and anger, emotions which seem to come from deep inside the singer's bones. "Walk Through The Fire" is the first station of a nightmarish trip through a desolate landscape of fear, cruelty and desertion, every song adding a piece to a puzzle which is solved halfway through the album. A hint is given early on:

If there's something missing

Or if you're hiding from

Someone you long to have known

Then you'll walk through the fire..

alone

In "A Long Way To Fall," Gauthier continues her lonely walk through the fire as she exposes an inability to hold on to someone, destroying something good and feeling utterly helpless about it.

I don't know what comes over me

Looks like I'll always be

the troubled kid that runs away from home

I reached for you the other night

you rolled away and moved against the wall

I fell into the space between us

that's a long way to fall

"Sugar Cane", co-written with Caty Curtis (who also recorded it on her last album), takes the listener to Mary Gauthier's Louisiana homeland and paints a grim picture of living conditions. The burning sugar cane fields become a symbol for the greediness of an industry that doesn't care about people's welfare. The fields also become the material, palpable side of the filth and fire addressed on this album.

The soot and ash are falling like a dark and deadly snow

The air is full of poison to the Golf of Mexico

Dirty air, dirty laundry, dirty money, dirty rain

A dirty deal with the devil, burning the sugar cane

Against this grim background, Gauthier tells a personal history of addiction running in a family from an alcoholic father to a heroin-addicted daughter.

From the bitter tears of helplesness

Falling from your grandma's face

As they strap you to the stretcher

While she quickly packs your suitcase

From the money that you stole from her

on the day she died

To the long lines at the clinic

Waiting for a day's supply, a day's supply

"Merry Go Round" seems like a hard song to follow, but "Good-Bye" might just be the most terrifying song ever written. It provides the missing piece of the puzzle of a life story which would be difficult to understand from the outside without these introductory lines.

Born a bastard child in New Orleans

to a woman I've never seen

I don't know if she ever held me

All I know is she let go of me. ...

Good-bye could have been my family name

All the explanation one needs for a life full of drifting, restlessness, and pain seems to be locked up in those five lines, but the final lines are just as shockingly matter-of-fact as the first.

When it's time to leave forever

I pray the Lord don't take me slow.

I don't know where I'm going

I just wanna say good-bye and go.

It's a song that indeed "passes through like thunder" and leaves the listener in a state of bewilderment, the sort of song you hope you'll never have to listen to. Most of all, it's the sort of song you hope nobody will ever have to write. That Mary Gauthier has the courage to write this song and perform it every night says more about her than any reviewer can. It sounds like the hardest thing she has ever done as a singer-songwriter. This would be a good moment for the album to end because everything seems to come to a halt, at least for a while. But then again, maybe it's a good thing that this outcry is hidden in the middle of the album.

"Camelot Hotel", which just like "Christmas In Paradise" has been a part of her live repertoire a long time, shows Gauthier's talent as a storyteller with an observant eye for other people's misery. With its infamous "cigarette/kitchenette" rhyme, "Camelot Hotel" comes close to Leonard Cohen's atmospheric style of writing and it is somewhat ironic that Cohen has "stolen" Mary's rhyme on his latest album. The story of a desperate couple in a rundown motel room trying to make it through the night, it strikes the same emotional chord as "Christmas in Paradise," a song about homeless people surviving under a bridge in Key West, Florida. Between "Camelot Hotel" and "Christmas In Paradise," Gauthier continues her personal life story. "After You're Gone" is a touching, desolate description of the apparent asymmetry of feelings in the ending of a relationship, an ending for which the singer takes the blame.

You're crying cause I'm not crying

You're crying while I sit here looking strong

You're sad 'cause I don't feel the pain you're feeling

But my turn's coming after you're gone

.

After you're gone I'll fall to pieces

After you're gone it's me I'll blame

I'll think of all kindness you've shown me

And I'll hate myself, 'cause I never change

With Gurf Morlix on harmony vocals and steel guitar, "After You're Gone" sounds like a classic country song but goes to emotional depths the average country song avoids. It is also Mary Gauthier's best singing performance so far. A similar subject is touched upon in "The Sun Faces The Color Of Everything" in which passion has faded in a relationship, but this time the lovers hold on to each other.

Me and you we wait it out, we wait it out

It might be 'round the bend

Every time we think it's gone

It comes back again.

If "Good-Bye" is the darkest song on the album, "The Ledge" comes pretty close. It is hard to summarize the condensed description of a lifetime of running away from cruelty and meanness, of getting caught up in it and trying to get out, damaged but wiser.

I held a grudge, I held a gun,

Held contempt for everyone

I couldn't cry, I couldn't learn

I lived alone. I lived in rage

I lived in darkness inside a cage

On the fringe, a refugee

I couldn't trace it back to me

I grew mean, I grew small

I grew tired of it all

Running scared, running down

Running low to the ground

The blows were hard, the blows were mean

The blows were low, the hits were clean

I was left black and blue

On the ledge, looking up at you.

So ends Gauthier's story of Filth & Fire. Not exactly a happy ending to a trip through hell which is far from over, but after this nightmarish personal journey her last lines almost sound like a sparkle of hope. Filth & Fire is a milestone in Mary Gauthier's career. From her reluctant step into the world of singer-songwriters documented on the self-released Dixie Kitchen and the stunning Dragqueens in Limousines, she has developed into an artist who is knocking very hard on the door of the league of the very best. She has become clearer, simpler, and harder in her language. She has also become a better singer. Needless to say Gurf Morlix did his usual excellent job as producer, harmony singer, and multi-instrumentalist. The small crew of musicians, which includes Slaid Cleaves, Peter Rowan, and ex-Small Faces Ian Maclagan on Hammond B-3, has provided just the left background for an album which, if there were any fairness on this world, would write history. Filth & Fire is a masterpiece. It is also an album you won't be able to listen to very often. The stuff Mary Gauthier's songs are made of is the sort of stuff you want to escape from, like you want to walk away from death, disease, old age, or a bum in the streets. Only you know you can't; it is gonna get you in the end. So does Filth and Fire.

I do not expect Mary Gauthier to write cheerful and happy songs in the future, but I do hope that for her next album she will not have to revisit the place this one comes from. Somehow there must be a soft spot to fall even for a bastard child from New Orleans.

*Information on Mary Gauthier's music can be found on the artist's website: www.marygauthier.com

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Original news:

Puremusic interview with MG.

Mary Gauthier - Mercy Now available here:

I've published several Xmas albums recently, and I thought people may be getting a bit fed up with that sort of stuff, so I've gone for something more substantial here. I only hope that I haven't gone too far in the substantial direction, as this one's a bit of a downer for the approach to the Festive Season.

This is MG's third album, and I chose to publish it over her previous 2 albums, which I've got, because it includes the song "Christmas in Paradise', but as this is about a couple of squatters living under a bridge in Key West, you'll see that it's very different from the usual Xmas fare.

Merry Xmas, y'all!

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