Mary Gauthier
The Foundling

Mary Gauthier chooses her words carefully. My favorite moment on the country singer’s 2005 breakthrough album Mercy Now comes about a minute into the...

* Mary Gauthier*?s first concept album is strewn with emotional references. The whole album has been constructed around the skeleton of *Gauthier*?s ...

Many songwriters mine their autobiography for material, but few have lives as suited to mythologizing as Mary Gauthier’s. Abandoned by her birth mothe...

Songwriting as catharsis is clearly effective. Otherwise why would it have been done by the likes of Lucinda Williams, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, J...

Mary Gauthier discovered her voice in her late 30s, and she'sbeen refining it ever since. As a singerwith only a few notes in her vocal range, but a ...

This week will see New Orleans-native Mary Gauthier release possibly one of the most personal albums that anyone could release. The Foundling is an au...

"Mama here, Mama gone." An album on a theme of adoption, explored with the hard-bitten demi-keen of one of American folk's fugitive survivors.It doesn...

The Foundling is a song cycle of a particularly personal kind. Singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier was abandoned to a local New Orleans care home in 1...

Mary Gauthier is a survivor with a remarkable history. She was abandoned in New Orleans as a baby, ran away from her adopted parents as a teenager, th...

Much-revered American roots songstress Mary Gauthier is renowned for drawing upon her earlier troubled life in her songs, but never as overtly as here...