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Mary Gauthier Reckoning

Mary Gauthier's new album, Reckoning, arrives September 25, 2026, with nine songs, a released title track, and collaborations credited to Vince Gill, Eliza Gilkyson, and Lori McKenna.

Mary Gauthier's new album, Reckoning, is set for release on September 25, 2026, through Soundly and Thirty Tigers. Gauthier is described as a Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, and author — a three-part credit that turns out to map onto three separate, citable parts of her career once the details of Reckoning and her back catalog are laid out. The announcement ties those three roles to specific facts rather than leaving them as a generic description. The title track has already gone out as a single, putting one piece of the nine-song project into circulation well ahead of the full release date.

## Inside the Tracklist

The listed track order includes "Reckoning," "Soldier of Fortune," "Some Times," "Black Ice," "Gone," and "Thought I Heard a Train." The title track, "Reckoning," and "Some Times" are both already out as singles ahead of the album. "Some Times" carries a co-write credit with Vince Gill — meaning the song was written together rather than by Gauthier working alone. Eliza Gilkyson and Lori McKenna are also named as additional collaborators on the album. Three credited collaborators, a firm release date, and a confirmed label pairing add up to a fair amount of detail for a record that's still weeks away from its release date.

What is public so far — the date, the label, the tracklist, and the collaborator names — still gives the rollout a clear structure to follow between now and September. That kind of advance detail, a locked date, released songs, and names attached to specific credits, is what turns an announcement into something readers can actually plan around. That's true whether a reader is checking in for the collaborator names, the format list, or just the date itself — each detail stands on its own without requiring the others. Fans following the album already have a date, two released songs, and a short list of collaborator names to go on.

## A Career With Some History Behind It

Reckoning follows Gauthier's 2018 album, Rifles & Rosary Beads, which received a Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album, a genre-specific category, and was named Best Album of the Year at the International Folk Music Awards. The Grammy nomination and the International Folk Music Awards honor are separate recognitions from separate organizations, both tied to the same 2018 record. That pairing of honors sits behind the "Grammy-nominated" part of how she's described in the Reckoning announcement. Her work outside music includes "Saved by a Song: The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting," a part memoir published by MacMillan, which accounts for the "author" half of that same description. Between the songwriting credits on Reckoning and a published book already behind her, the singer, songwriter, and author label reads less like a stock bio line and more like a short list of things Gauthier has actually done.

Physically, Rough Trade lists Reckoning on both vinyl and CD, giving anyone tracking the release two named formats to note ahead of the September date — vinyl and CD as separate, specific options rather than a single generic physical release. A digital pre-save for the album is also available. Along with the title track and "Some Times" already out, that adds up to several separate details — a format list, a pre-save, and two released songs — that are already in place while the rest of the album is still weeks away.

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