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Music is the elixir of life. Ruminations on songs, music history, sobriety, golf, and anything else my ADHD-wired brain needs to release.
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We All Could Use Some Mercy Now (opens the original)
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There are songwriters and then there are “songwriter’s songwriters.” Mary Gauthier belongs to the latter. The Nashville-based musician is a member of a rare club that includes the likes of Bob Dylan, John Prine, Steve Earle, and the late Dolly Parton—all writers, whose lyrics are sometimes simple, but always profound. Words that capture the spirit of the times without preaching. For Gauthier, writing songs takes time; sometimes, these works-in-progress lay dormant in a notebook for a decade befo
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