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Mary Gauthier has distilled the bitter aftertaste of the booze and drugs and bad relationships that long ruled her life into one lovely narrative after another, chronicling a merciless world in which it's always a little bit too late to change your mind.
Gauthier found her talent later than many artists, writing her first song at age 35, and quickly earned accolades for her independent releases, winning the Independent Music Awards for Best Folk/Singer-Songwriter Song, and her album Filth and Fire, was named Best Indy CD of the Year by Jon Pareles of The New York Times, in 2002.
Moving from Boston to Nashville, she secured a publishing deal, and her first major label release Mercy Now was on the top 10 list for 2005 in dozens of publications, including The New York Times, the Los Angeles
Times, the Daily News, and Billboard Magazine. She was awarded "New Artist of the Year" by The Americana Music Association the same year. Her latest release, The Foundling was named the #3 Record of the Year by Los Angeles Times music writer Randy Lewis.
Mary Gauthier exhibits a poet's unflinching eye, a counselor's compassionate heart and a trickster's wry spirit. She quickly has become an influential and in-demand voice, having her songs recorded by Jimmy Buffett, Tim McGraw, Blake Shelton - and even Boy George.
"One of our most evocative storytellers and fearless stewards of the emotional landscape." -- Acoustic Guitar Magazine
Official Website: www.marygauthier.com
Song Samples: www.youtube.com
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Rod Picott is the songs he sings. Since before Woody Guthrie, songwriters have soaked their public image in sepia tones singing about the working life, but Picott bears the scars of actually living that blue collar life.
The son of a welder and former Marine, Picott grew up in the small mill town of South Berwick, Maine. His father's record collection spanned Ray Charles to John Philip Sousa and James Brown. His older brother introduced him to the punk poetry of Lou Reed and Patti Smith.
His songs are inhabited by drinkers, circus hands, boxers and working girls, and he sings about his characters with intimacy. The tall, wiry framed Picott made his living as a sheetrock worker from high school until he released his first CD, Tiger Tom Dixon's Blues, in 2001.
His latest release, Welding Burns, is an album about scars of the skin and scars of the heart. Picott's ragged and soulful voice spins songs of loss, desire, rapture and work. Three songs are co-written by Rod's longtime collaborator Slaid Cleaves.
"Rod Picott's world weary songs glow with both self awareness and humility." -Mary Gauthier
Song Samples:
Welding Burns
Little Scar
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