Mary Gauthier was something of a late starter, delivering her first album when she was in her late thirties but she has become one of americana’s most distinctive songwriters over the years since she started recording her songs in 1997.
But let us go back for a short resume of her life, because it informs her songwriting and her later music. Mary Gauthier was born in New Orleans in March 1962 and adopted as an infant by a couple in Thibodaux, Louisiana – the father was an alcoholic and there was little emotional attachment to her as a child. She ran away from home at fifteen and stole her parents’ car, spending the following years passing through drug centres, so-called halfway houses, and friends’ couches, often under the strong influence of drink and…

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