Between Daylight and Dark *

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Album: Between Daylight and Dark *
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Snakebit Album Version	More Info...	4:31
2)	Can't Find The Way Album Version	More Info...	6:07
3)	Between The Daylight And The Dark Album Version	More Info...	4:16
4)	Last Of The Hobo Kings Album Version	More Info...	5:50
5)	Before You Leave Album Version	More Info...	3:43
6)	Please Album Version	More Info...	5:04
7)	Same Road Album Version	More Info...	5:20
8)	I Ain't Leaving Album Version	More Info...	5:17
9)	Soft Place To Land Album Version	More Info...	4:48
10)	Thanksgiving Album Version	More Info...	5:22
2)	Can't Find the Way	More Info...	0:06
3)	Between The Daylight And The Dark	More Info...	0:04
4)	Last of the Hobo Kings	More Info...	0:06
5)	Before You Leave	More Info...	0:03
6)	Please	More Info...	0:05
7)	Same Road	More Info...	0:05
8)	I Ain't Leaving	More Info...	0:05
9)	Soft Place to Land	More Info...	0:04
10)	Thanksgiving	More Info...	0:05

Album: Between Daylight and Dark *
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Snakebit Album Version	More Info...	4:31
2)	Can't Find The Way Album Version	More Info...	6:07
3)	Between The Daylight And The Dark Album Version	More Info...	4:16
4)	Last Of The Hobo Kings Album Version	More Info...	5:50
5)	Before You Leave Album Version	More Info...	3:43
6)	Please Album Version	More Info...	5:04
7)	Same Road Album Version	More Info...	5:20
8)	I Ain't Leaving Album Version	More Info...	5:17
9)	Soft Place To Land Album Version	More Info...	4:48
10)	Thanksgiving Album Version	More Info...	5:22
2)	Can't Find the Way	More Info...	0:06
3)	Between The Daylight And The Dark	More Info...	0:04
4)	Last of the Hobo Kings	More Info...	0:06
5)	Before You Leave	More Info...	0:03
6)	Please	More Info...	0:05
7)	Same Road	More Info...	0:05
8)	I Ain't Leaving	More Info...	0:05
9)	Soft Place to Land	More Info...	0:04
10)	Thanksgiving	More Info...	0:05

Performer Notes

Personnel: Mary Gauthier (vocals, acoustic guitar); Mary Gauthier; David Piltch (acoustic guitar, acoustic bass, electric bass); Van Dyke Parks (piano); Sally Dworksy, Loudon Wainwright III, Sally Dworsky (background vocals); Greg Leisz (acoustic guitar, acoustic 12-string guitar, lap steel guitar, tenor guitar, dobro, mandolin); Patrick Warren (piano, pump organ, chamberlin, keyboards); Jay Bellerose (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel: Van Dyke Parks.
Audio Mixer: Ryan Freeland.
Recording information: 03/06/2007-03/13/2007.
Author: Sue Monk Kidd.
Photographer: Michael Wilson .
BETWEEN DAYLIGHT AND DARK is the first album that New Orleans resident Mary Gauthier wrote and recorded after Hurricane Katrina nearly destroyed the city in 2005. Recorded live in the studio by producer and musician Joe Henry, with the barest minimum of overdubs, this is Gauthier at her most unguarded and emotionally expansive. The songs range from character studies of the down and out to subtle protest songs, all of them feeling intensely personal in a way that many similar singer-songwriters never quite manage. Highlights include the deeply affecting "Last of the Hobo Kings."

Professional Reviews

Uncut (p.121) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[With an] observational style echoing the best hobo folk-blues of John Hammond....This is a dark journey into worlds peopled by the lost and damaged."

Dirty Linen (p.53) - "Gauthier's vocals are unusually expressive....Every one of these songs haunts, touches the heart, and feels like an old friend."

No Depression (p.94) - "[S]he wants us to know the people in her songs, intimately and on first listen....'Can't Find The Way' and 'Same Road' are instantly memorable."

Q (Magazine) (p.116) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Gauthier's unflinching lyrical vision and her attention to musical detail make this a dark, stomach-tightening experience."