{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Mercy Now | type = studio | artist = Mary Gauthier | cover = Mercy Now Album.jpg | alt = | released = February 15, 2005 | recorded = | venue = | studio = Rootball Studio, Austin, Texas | genre = Country, folk | length = 50:15 | label = Lost Highway | producer = Gurf Morlix | prev_title = Filth & Fire | prev_year = 2002 | next_title = Between Daylight and Dark | next_year = 2007 }}
'''''Mercy Now''''' is the fourth studio album by Mary Gauthier.
==Track listing== All tracks composed by Mary Gauthier; except where indicated {{Track listing | total_length = 50:15 | title1 = Falling Out of Love | length1 = 5:57 | title2 = Mercy Now | length2 = 5:51 | title3 = Wheel Inside the Wheel | length3 = 6:33 | title4 = I Drink | writer4 = Gauthier, Crit Harmon | length4 = 4:31 | title5 = Just Say She's a Rhymer | writer5 = Harlan Howard | length5 = 4:17 | title6 = Prayer Without Words | writer = Gauthier, Tom Damphier | length6 = 6:09 | title7 = Your Sister Cried | writer7 = Fred Eaglesmith | length7 = 5:00 | title8 = Empty Spaces | writer8 = Gauthier, Dale Keys | length8 = 3:43 | title9 = Drop in a Bucket | length9 = 4:11 | title10 = It Ain't the Wind, It's the Rain | length10 = 4:03 }}
==Personnel== *Mary Gauthier - vocals, acoustic guitar *Gurf Morlix - acoustic and electric guitar, bass, lap steel, octophone, percussion, backing vocals *Rich Brotherton - acoustic guitar, banjo *Ian "Mac" Lagan - Hammond B3 organ *Rick Richards - drums *Ray Bonneville - harmonica *Brian Standefer - cello *Eamon McLoughlin - viola *Paul Mills, Patty Griffin - backing vocals
==Critical reception== Thom Jurek at AllMusic praises "her literate American gothic songs about wasted lives, desolate characters who roam the highways like ghosts, shattered dreams, and frustrated expectations."<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/album/mercy-now-mw0000261177 Mercy Now, review by Thom Jurek], AllMusic, 2005. Rating: 4/5 stars</ref>
Jon Lusk's BBC review liked "her searing honesty, gift for gritty stories and willingness to acknowledge the darker side of life, without fear."<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/zf25 Mary Gauthier Mercy Now Review ] at BBC</ref>
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Category:Mary Gauthier albums Category:2005 albums Category:Lost Highway Records albums
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