Battle-scarred Americana trailblazer Mary Gauthier returns with a new album, Trouble & Love, on In the Black Records. The pain and ache in Gauthier's music comes from her own life's jagged edges and gutting experiences, from adoption and isolation to addiction and trauma. As a chronicler of bad luck and hard times, Gauthier has carved out a particular place of emotional honesty and immediacy in the Americana world. Trouble & Love, her studio first album in four years, tells yet more tales of survival and struggle with new rays of hope and growth piercing the caverns of hurt.