{"id":3285,"date":"2010-12-01T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T05:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=3285"},"modified":"2015-03-25T16:07:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T22:07:24","slug":"absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/3285","title":{"rendered":"Mary Gauthier and Carrie Rodriguez"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Absence<\/h6>\n<p><em>Don\u2019t the last leaves on a maple<br \/>\nLook lonely on a late Autumn day?<br \/>\nDon\u2019t people hold tighter<br \/>\nWhen love starts slipping away?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Don\u2019t winter winds whisper<br \/>\nIt\u2019s time, time, time, to let go?<br \/>\nDon\u2019t a maple look stronger<br \/>\nWhen her last leaves have fallen to the snow?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Snow, sleet, wind and rain<br \/>\nBreath on a windowpane<br \/>\nAbsence is the hardest truth<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Don\u2019t a murder of crows on a maple<br \/>\nRoost hungry at night?<br \/>\nDon\u2019t loose flocks soar over rooftops<br \/>\nIn sorrowful flight?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Don\u2019t winter crows call to each other<br \/>\nBy the light of the moon?<br \/>\nDon\u2019t a heart beat heavy alone<br \/>\nIn a dark and empty room?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Snow, sleet, wind and rain<br \/>\nBreath on a windowpane<br \/>\nAbsence is the hardest truth<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Don\u2019t the last leaves on a maple<br \/>\nLook lonely on a late November day?<br \/>\nDon\u2019t people hold tighter<br \/>\nWhen love starts slipping away?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Snow, sleet, wind and rain<br \/>\nBreath on a windowpane<br \/>\nAbsence is the hardest truth<br \/>\nSnow, sleet, wind and rain<br \/>\nBreath on a windowpane<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Absence is the hardest truth<br \/>\nAbsence is the hardest truth<br \/>\nAbsence is the hardest truth<br \/>\nAbsence is the hardest truth<\/em><\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/2540\">Mary Gauthier and Carrie Rodriguez<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>\u201cUncut Gems\u201d is a series of unreleased song lyrics, recipes, notes, and more by prominent Nashville songwriters.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Gauthier was born in New Orleans in 1962.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Dixie Kitchen <\/em>(1997)<em> <\/em>is the name of both her first album and a restaurant she founded in Boston.\u00a0\u00a0In 2001 she moved to Nashville.\u00a0 In 2005 Bobby Braddock told me to listen to \u201cI Drink\u201d off her album\u00a0<em>Mercy Now<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0Bobby told me Gauthier was the real deal.\u00a0\u00a0First time he ever told me that about anybody.\u00a0\u00a0He was right. Bobby\u2019s always right about songs.\u00a0 The folks at\u00a0<em>No Depression<\/em> magazine voted\u00a0<em>Mercy Now<\/em> the #6 greatest album of the decade.<\/p>\n<p>I teach work by Gauthier and Braddock in my Vanderbilt course, Country Lyric in American Culture.\u00a0 Listened to in tandem, \u201cTime Marches On\u201d\u00a0and \u201cI Drink\u201d provide a crash course on the persistence of trauma and transcendence in the American Family.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<em>Alice Randall<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absence Don\u2019t the last leaves on a maple Look lonely on a late Autumn day? Don\u2019t people hold tighter When love starts slipping away? Don\u2019t winter winds whisper It\u2019s time, time, time, to let go? Don\u2019t a maple look stronger When her last leaves have fallen to the snow? 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