Mary Gauthier

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Mary Veronica Gauthier (GOH-shay; born March 11, 1962) is a Grammy Nominated American folk singer-songwriter.

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Life and career

Gauthier was born in 1962 in New Orleans, Louisiana, to a woman who gave her to St Vincent's Women and Infants Asylum, where she spent the first year of her life. Mary called her biological mother once by phone in adulthood, but there was no further contact between them. An Italian Catholic couple from Thibodaux, Louisiana, adopted her. Her father was an alcoholic. Gauthier and her brother, who was three years younger and later adopted, were struggling with a variety of problems. He was later sentenced to prison for an armed robbery. By the time she was twelve, Mary claims she had become delirious on sloe gin. When she was fifteen, she ran away from home, remembering that "I was a gay baby" and that, well, didn't fly. Gay people were living on their own back in the 1980s. I was devastated, and I just wanted to get away,” Mary spent the next five years in heroin rehabilitation, halfway houses, and living with family; she spent her eighteenth birthday in a jail cell. These experiences fueled her songwriting later on. She began attending Louisiana State University as a philosophy major, but she dropped out during her senior year after being inspired by peers. She began raising money to open a Cajun restaurant in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood after attending the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts and working in an upmarket restaurant, earning the title Dixie Kitchen. She was arrested for inebriated driving on Monday night and has been sober ever since. "I became sober when I was twenty-seven years old..." "I started writing songs in earnest around thirty-two years of age," she says. Mary continued to cook and wait at the restaurant, but she was increasingly drawn to songwriting after recovering sobriety from "mainly" alcohol, cocaine, and heroin."

Gauthier, who made her debut on her debut, Dixie Kitchen, sold her part of the restaurant to fund her second album. Drag Queens in Limousines was born in 1998, winning numerous awards, and has appeared at eleven major folk festivals, including Newport. She first moved to Nashville in 2001, and in 2002, she released Filth and Fire, her third album. She signed a contract with Lost Highway, a Universal Music company, and subsequently released the first of two albums with them.

Mercy Now received widespread attention and thrust Mary into the spotlight, establishing the Top Ten Albums list in hundreds of magazines. Between Daylight and Dark, a second album by Lost Highway, followed in 2007. Razor & Tie Records released Gauthier's latest studio album, The Foundling (2010). In The Black Records, LIVE at Blue Rock (2013), her first live album recorded outside of Austin, Texas, she made the first of many albums for In The Black Records. Trouble and Love, Mary's eighth studio album, demonstrated her new "brutal honesty balanced by rough-hewn tenderness" to great effect. Gauthier appeared on Eight 30 Records' Cold and Bitter Tears: Ted Hawkins' Collection, the following year, with her take on late Los Angeles busker Sorry You're Sick.

Rifles & Rosary Beads, Gauthier's next book, was co-written by Rifles & Roseary Beads (2018), a result of Mary's involvement with the Songwriting With Soldiers program. "Every] day, on average, twenty-two veterans commit suicide," Mary says, "underneath] so much of the world's problems are related to trauma, it's the central issue humanity is grappling with." "We've found something here that brings hope to people who are hurting." The album was released to widespread acclaim, with "not only the best album of her career but also a landmark album in its own right" (The Los Angeles Times). It has been nominated for many prestigious awards, as well as a foreseeing Mary for her first Grammy nomination.

Gauthier has received acclaim and numerous accolades for her music throughout her career. At the first Independent Music Awards in 2000, Drag Queens in Limousines received the Best Folk/Singer-Songwriter Song. Gauthier was nominated for Best New Artist at the Boston Music Awards (GLAMAs), as well as three Gay and Lesbian American Music Awards (GLAMAS), as the best country artist. By Jon Pareles of The New York Times, Filth and Fire were named Best Indy CD of the Year in 2002. Mercy Now is No. 1 in the top ten albums list in The New York Times, The Daily News, and Billboard Magazine, and she was named No. 1 on the 2003 Top Ten Albums list. No Depression magazine has the 6th largest decade in the United States. In 2005, Gauthier was named Emerging Artist of the Year by the American Music Association.

The Foundling was named No. 111. In 2010, Randy Lewis, a music writer for the Los Angeles Times, made the year's best record of the year. Gauthier was nominated for the Outstanding Music Artist of the Year at the 26th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in 2015. Rifles & Rosary Beads received her first Grammy nomination in the category of Best Folk Album (2019) and Best Folk Album (2019) at The International Folk Music Awards. She was also nominated for Album of the Year by the American Music Awards and Exhibitions, as well as being named International Artist of the Year by the United Kingdom American Music Association.

Several musicians have recorded Gauthier's songs, including Jimmy Buffett, Tim McGraw, Blake Shelton, Bobby Bare, Boy George, Boy George, Boy George, Bill Chambers, Mike Farris, Candi Staton, Kathy Mattea, and Bettye LaVette. Mike Farris and Bettye Lavette both received Grammy awards, including LaVette for Best Blues Record (2016) for Worthy, the title track for which was written by Mary Gauthier and Beth Nielsen Chapman. Farris received the Grammy for Best Roots Gospel Album (2015) for Shine for All the People, which also included Gauthier's album "Mercy Now." Her songs have also appeared in several television shows, including Nashville on ABC, Masterpiece Theatre's Case Histories, Showtime's Banshee, HBO's Injustice, and Paraphrasedout's Yellowstone.

Wally Lamb, Tom Waits, and Bob Dylan's albums have appeared on playlists. Saved by a Song (St. Martin's Press), her latest book, will be published on July 6, 2021. Mary is a regular on the Grand Ole Opry and currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee.

The songs of Mary Gauthier are taught at a variety of universities, including Alice Randall's "Country Lyric in American Culture" class at Vanderbilt University. The short stories have appeared in several books and magazines, including Amplified (Random House), The Blue Rock Review, an arts magazine based in Wimberley, Texas, and Capitola Review, a handcrafted, limited edition book. Gauthier has appeared in various books on country and Americana music, as well as "Right By Her Roots: American Women and Their Songs" by Jewly Height. "De Bezem Door Nashville (The Broom Through Nashville)," by Harry de Jong, also features Mary in a Dutch book on country music, with photographs by Henk Bleeker.

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