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Biography
BLP sources|date=January 2010Infobox musical artist | name = Mary Gauthier| image = Mary Gauthier.jpg| caption =| image_size =| landscape =| background = solo_singer | birth_name =| alias =| birth_date = birth date and age|1962|3|11|df=y|birth_place = New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orleans , Louisiana United States | death_date =| instrument = Singing|Vocals , Guitar | genre = Folk music|Folk , Alternative country|Alternative Country , Americana music|Americana (music) , Country music|Country , Southern Gothic | occupation = Songwriter , Musician , Restaurateur | years_active = 1990–present| label = Razor and Tie | website = URL| http://www.marygauthier.com/| notable_instruments = Mary Gauthier (IPAc-en|icon|'|g|o?|?|e?respell|GOH|shay; born March 11, 1962) is an American folk music|folk singer-songwriter .
Life and career
Gauthier was born in New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orleans , Louisiana . Given up at birth by a mother she never knew, Gauthier was adopted by an Italian American|Italian Roman Catholic Church|Catholic couple in Thibodaux, Louisiana|Thibodaux , Louisiana.Citation | last = Gold | first = Scott | author-link = | title = Change of tune | newspaper = Los Angeles Times | pages = | year = | date = June 12, 2008 | url = http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp? storyID=695464& category=ARTS& newsdate=6/12/2008 | accessdate =January 27, 2010 At age 15, she ran away from home, and spent the next several years in drug rehabilitation , halfway house s, and living with friends; she spent her 18th birthday in a jail cell.Citation | last = Reighley | first = Kurt B. | author-link = | title = Singing her stories | newspaper = The Advocate | pages = 65 | year = | date = March 29, 2005 | url = http://books.google.co.uk/books? id=-GMEAAAAMBAJ& pg=PA65 | accessdate =January 27, 2010 Struggling to deal with being adopted and her Sexual orientation|sexuality , she used drugs and alcohol. These experiences provided fodder for her songwriting later on. Spurred on by friends, she enrolled at Louisiana State University as a philosophy major, dropping out during her senior year. After attending the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts , she opened a Cajun cuisine|Cajun restaurant in Boston's Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts|Back Bay neighborhood, Dixie Kitchen (also the eponymous title of her first album ).Citation | last = Tucker | first = Karen Iris | author-link = | title = Mary, quite contrary | newspaper = The Advocate | pages = | year = | date = 83 | url = http://books.google.co.uk/books? id=l2MEAAAAMBAJ& pg=PA83 | accessdate =January 27, 2010 Mary ran, and cooked at, the restaurant for eleven years. She was arrested for drunk driving opening night, July 12, 1990, and has been sober ever since. After achieving sobriety, she was driven to dedicate herself full-time to songwriting, and embarked upon a career in music. She wrote her first song at age 35.Citation | last = Alarik | first = Scott | author-link = | title = Truth be told& nbsp;— Mary Gauthier doesn't shy away from her past | newspaper = The Boston Globe | pages = | year = | date = October 7, 2005 | url = http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2005/10/07/truth_be_told/ | accessdate =January 27, 2010
She sold her share in the restaurant to finance her second album, Drag Queens in Limousines , in 1998. The summer of the release of this album, she was invited to play 11 major folk festivals, including the Newport Folk Festival . Drag Queens in Limousines won in the First Annual The Independent Music Awards|Independent Music Awards for Best Folk/Singer-Songwriter Song, and she was nominated for Best New Artist of the year by the Boston Music Awards. She was nominated for three http://www.queermusicheritage.us/awards.html GLAMA awards ( Gay and Lesbian American Music Awards) and won best country artist of the year. In 2002 her third album, Filth and Fire , was named "Best Indy CD of the year" by Jon Pareles of The New York Times , in 2002. She moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 2001 and secured a publishing deal with Harlan Howard|Harlan Howard Songs , then secured a record deal with Lost Highway Records|Lost Highway , a division of Universal Music , in 2003. Her first major label release, in 2005, Mercy Now was on the top 10 list for the year in dozens of publications, including The New York Times , the Los Angeles Times , the Daily News (New York)|Daily News , and Billboard Magazine .
She was awarded "New Artist of the Year" by The Americana Music Association the same year. Mercy Now was voted the #6 http://www.nodepression.com/profiles/blog/show? id=2342817%3ABlogPost%3A101127& commentId=2342817%3AComment%3A101170 Record of the Decade by No Depression (magazine)|No Depression magazine. Her second Lost Highway release, Between Daylight and Dark , appeared in September 2007. She has had her songs recorded by numerous artists, including Jimmy Buffett , Tim McGraw , Blake Shelton , Bill Chambers , http://www.mikefarrismusic.com/ Mike Farris and Candi Staton . Her latest release is called The Foundling and was released by Razor & Tie Records in 2010. It was named the http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/12/times-music-writers-pick-their-best-albums-of-the-year.html #3 Record of the Year by Los Angeles Times music writer Randy Lewis. She has been featured in several books on Country and Americana music, including http://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/books/397/they-came-to-nashville "They Came To Nashville", by Marshall Chapman, and http://www.jewlyhight.com/ "Right By Her Roots" Americana Women and Their Songs, by Jewly Height. Her songs are taught at several Universities, including http://www.alicerandall.com/ Alice Randall'scountry music lyric in American literature class at Vanderbilt University. Her songs have appeared on Wally Lamb's playlist, http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/dailyplanet/2012-03-14/3875066 Tom Waits playlist, and Theme Time Radio Hour Season One#Episode 3: Drinking|Bob Dylans playlist. She currently resides in Nashville, TN.
Genesis (The Early Years) ( 2008) - 15 track compilation from the 1st three albums
The Foundling (2010)
The Foundling Alone (2011) Acoustic Demo's of songs in development, from The Foundling
References
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External links
http://www.marygauthier.com/ Official website
http://main.losthighwayrecords.com/artist.aspx? ob=ros& src=lb& aid=186 Gauthier's Lost Highway webpage
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