Given up at birth by a mother she never knew, Mary Gauthier bounced around right from the top and was adopted by parents of the Italian Catholic persuasion in Thibodoux, LA. She was a classic wild child - gay bars, detox, even prison, before she straightened out.
Studied Philosophy at L.S.U., then attended Cambridge School of Culinary Arts, and founded Boston's first Cajun restaurant - drinking all the way, right up to opening night.
Three big turnarounds encapsulate the story of Mary Gauthier: rising above a dangerously errant youth, getting sober, and becoming a professional and heralded singer songwriter by not writing her first songs until her mid-thirties.
That, and then writing so well from such a visceral and gut wrenching place that it resonates with the press, her heroes, and the audience alike.
Genesis (The Early Years) is a new collection of some of Gauthier's impassioned anthems that epitomise the musical genre now known as Americana.
- Long Way To Fall
- Our Lady Of The Shooting Stars
- Evangeline
- Camelot Motel
- Sugar Cane
- I Drink
- Karla Faye
- Drag Queens In Limousines
- Different Kind Of Gone
- Goodbye
- Christmas In Paradise
- GD HIV
- Ways Of The World
- I Ain't Got No Home
(live, previously unreleased)
- I Don't Know Nothing About Love
(live, previously unreleased)
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