Mary Gauthier
Within a year following the release of her second album, 'Drag Queens in Limousines,' in late 1999, Mary Gauthier had toured coast to coast and performed on the mainstages of more than a dozen of the country's most prestigious festivals including the Newport Folk Festival, Strawberry Music Festival, Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, Winterhawk2000: Bluegrass and Beyond, Rocky Mountain Folks Festival, Philadelphia Folk Festival.
Mary continues to tour the US with 2001 summer appearances on the mainstage of Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Strawberry Music Festival, and Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, as she breaks new ground in Europe with the release of 'Drag Queens in Limousines" on Munich Records. Released this past spring, the CD continues to garner outstanding reviews in publications like Rolling Stone, MOJO, Q Magazine, and Country Music People. This October will mark Mary's third European tour in six months.
Mary Gauthier (pronounced Go-Shay) explains her music simply, "It's about telling the truth and making it rhyme." Mary left Thibodaux, Louisiana at the age of 15, heading for any place where she thought she 'fit in.' She stumbled through the early years. "It's amazing to me that I am still alive," she says. Of her second CD, Mary explained, "Writing the songs for 'Drag Queens in Limousines' was my way of looking back, but it's also very much about celebrating the people whose lives are lived outside of anything resembling normal.
By telling stories about the people I've met along the way, including those who have taken me in, I'm trying to expose the humanity of those whom many consider to be society's rejects. They're the people I find interesting, maybe because I have considered myself one of them." Mary writes about Karla Faye Tucker, the woman executed by the state of Texas in 1998, about the darker side of drinking in "I Drink," about falling for a hard core stripper in "Evangeline," and in the title cut 'Drag Queens in Limousines' about finding 'her people.'For her work in 'Drag Queens in Limousines," Mary Gautheir received the Independent Music Award/2001, a Silver Star Crossroads Magazine, and a GLAMA for Country Artist of the Year. Produced by Crit Harmon, the album was nominated for Outstanding Folk/Acoustic Album of the Year by the Boston Music Awards.
"Bohemian spirit abounds on 'Drag Queens in Limousines," along with a wry vision and vocal directness. You'll recognize the characters who run through Mary's songs, which are slices of life at the turn of the millennium," reviewed Gavin Report.
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