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Product Identifiers
Record LabelThtg, Thirty Tigers
UPC0752830511620
eBay Product ID (ePID)24046043205
Product Key Features
FormatCD
Release Year2018
GenreRock
ArtistGauthier, Mary
Release TitleRifles and Rosary Beads
Dimensions
Item Height0.22 in
Item Weight0.12 lb
Item Length5.60 in
Item Width4.91 in
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Number of Discs1
Notes2018 release, the 10th album from the folk singer/songwriter. Rifles and Rosary Beads is a collection of songs by Mary Gauthier, co-written with U.S. veterans and their families, through Songwriting With Soldiers, a non-profit organization that pairs US veterans with professional songwriters. These songs are a glimpse inside the hearts and souls of both male and female soldiers, and their spouses. The eleven deeply personal songs on this album reveal the untold stories, and powerful struggles that these veterans deal with abroad and after returning home. Each song on Rifles and Rosary Beads is a gut punch: deceptively simple and emotionally complex. From the opening "Soldiering On" ("What saves you in the battle/Can kill you at home") to "Bullet Holes in the Sky" ("They thank me for my service/And wave their little flags/They genuflect on Sundays/And yes, they'd send us back"), to the abject horror of "Iraq," and it's quiet depiction of a female mechanic's rape, each song tells the story of a deeply wounded veteran.
I like that she put on a workshop for soldiers back from Iraq to help them recover from war. Good songs that tell a soldiers perspective in the stories she covered.