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The Americana Music Association raised more than $9,000 on Monday by auctioning handwritten, autogra
SONG OF THE DAY
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! And today's song is "Thanksgiving" by Mary Gauthier from her Between Da
The Obligatory Halloween Mix
Later, we'll be carving pumpkins, taking the mini-mackerels out trick or treating, and watching Hall
Stagecoach 2010 Gonna Be Bigger Than Ever!
Having joined the ranks of top U.S. destination festivals with more than 100,000 music fans in atten
sounding off: august 2009 (ii)
Part 2 of the August roundup looks at releases from Cabinet Of Natural Curiosities, Colbie Caillat a
Biography Mary Gauthier
Mary Gauthier ( GO-shay; born March 1962 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an
American folk singer-songwriter. Given up at birth by a mother she never
knew, Mary was adopted by an Italian Catholic couple in Thibodaux,
Louisiana. At age 15, she ran away from home and stole her parents' car,
and spent the next several years in drug rehabilitation, halfway houses,
and living with friends; she spent her 18th birthday in jail. These
experiences provided fodder for her songwriting later on (particularly her
song "Drag Queens in Limousines"). Later on, she enrolled at Louisiana
State University as a philosophy major, but after five years there, dropped
out due to drug problems and moved to Boston. After working as a dishwasher
and eventually being promoted to manager of the restaurant where she
worked, financial backers paid her way to Cambridge School of Culinary Arts
and she opened a Cajun restaurant in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, Dixie
Kitchen (also the title of
