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Mary Gauthier in session

Mary Gauthier is in session, chatting to Bob and playing songs from her acclaimed new album Trouble and Love.

The remarkable Mary Gauthier is in session, chatting to Bob and playing songs from her acclaimed new album "Trouble and Love"

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 Italian Catholic 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 neighbourhood, 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.

57 minutes

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Thu 24 Jul 2014 19:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Hank Williams

    Hey, Good Lookin'

    • American Heartland: Legends Of Country.
    • Sony Music.
    • 2.

  • Charlie Robison

    Feelin' Good

    • Beautiful Day.
    • Dualtone.
    • 6.

  • Johnny Cash

    I Walk The Line

    • Now 100 Hits Country (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Carlene Carter

    Me and the Wildwood Rose

    • Carter Girl.
    • White label (Universal / Rounder ).
    • 3.

  • Mary Gauthier

    How You Learn To Live Alone

  • Mary Gauthier

    When a Woman Grows Cold

    • Trouble & Love.
    • In The Black/Proper.
    • 1.

  • Beth Nielsen Chapman

    Sweet Love Shine

    • UnCovered.
    • BNC/Proper.
    • 4.

  • Rodney Crowell & Gretchen Peters

    Dark Angel

    • Hello Cruel World.
    • Scarlett Letter.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Thu 24 Jul 2014 19:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2