Mary Veronica Gauthier (/ˈɡoʊʃeɪ/GOH-shay; born March 11, 1962) is an American folksinger-songwriter.
Life and career
Gauthier was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Born to a mother she never knew and left in St Vincent's Women and Infants Asylum, Gauthier was adopted when she was a year old by an ItalianCatholic couple from Thibodaux, Louisiana. At age 15, she ran away from home, and spent the next several years in drug rehabilitation, halfway houses, and living with friends; she spent her 18th birthday in a jail cell. Struggling to deal with being adopted, 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 restaurant in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, Dixie Kitchen (also the title of her first album). 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.
"I'm always writing from a place in my experience. Generally, I'm writing about something that I don't understand, and I'm writing to make sense of it. It's a discovery process. In that way, it's kind of therapeutic for the writer. If you stumble on something really good, like I did with 'Mercy Now,' then it becomes therapeutic for more than just the writer."
"Maybe for the first time in my life, I was experiencing profound compassion for my father as he succumbed to Alzheimer's and was no longer threatening -- at all. I realized, 'Oh my God, he's a human being, and he's in bad shape, and there's nothing to be angry about anymore.' And then when the anger dropped, I just felt for him. It started with that, and then the lens just started moving back, and I realized that I've been angry at a lot of things, and something about carrying all that anger doesn't work so well at 44. It was kinda cool in my teens and 20s. Then in my 30s it started to be exhausting. And in my 40s, you know, I'm just too tired to be angry."
"I was adopted when I was about a year old. My adopted parents tried, but their marriage was doomed. Music saved my life. I couldn't relate to things in Baton Rouge, but I found songs that spoke to me."
"The most important thing I got from philosophy was that there are no answers. There's freedom in knowing that you don't have to know it all ... which is why to me a song should end with a question, not an answer."
There's a tiny village with its landscape painted green A firehouse, a general store, all the streets are clean The people at the depot love to hear that whistle sound And they all wave at Jackie when the engine comes around. He says roll train roll The steel and all its rhythm are sweet music to his soul. You'll be riding safe tonight Come hell or freezing rain The red caps got your baggage All Aboard!! Jackies Train A cow strays from the meadow She's stranded on the track Jackie's fingers lift her up Then gently put her back the train chugs on down the line Through the kitchen and the den Disappearing under Jackies bed And back to town again. Yes its Roll train Roll The steel and all its rhythm are sweet music to his soul. You'll be riding safe tonight Come hell or freezing rain The red caps got your baggage All aboard! Jackies train Jackie never stops the train when he's home all alone He keeps her rolling round and round till mama, comes home Jackie can't go out to play, the village needs him there Every little detail of the train gets all his care Gotta keep it rolling, gotta stay on time When he dies they'll honor him For miles on down the line. Yes its Roll train Roll The steel and all its rhythm are sweet music to his soul. You'll be riding safe tonight Come hell or freezing rain
Mary Gauthier. Help celebrate 25 years of performing when singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier, whose music had been covered by everyone from Blake Shelton to the late Jimmy Buffett, makes her way back for ...
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Friday, September 13, 2024. ARTIST JAM... All forms of artistic media are welcome ... BALLSTON AREA SENIORS ACTIVITIES ... Mary Gauthier will give two concerts at Caffe Lena, at 4.30pm and 7.30pm. Tickets can be purchased at https.//www.marygauthier.com/tour ... W.
The Newport Plain Talk
15 Oct 2024
The Newport Plain Talk
15 Oct 2024