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Mary Gauthier 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. She Opened A Cajun Restaurant In Boston's Back Bay Neighborhood Dixie Kitchen Also The Eponymous Title Of Her First Album . She Wrote Her First Song At Age 35. After The Release Of Her First Album She Sold Her Share In The Restaurant To Finance Her Second Album Drag Queens In Limousines In 1999. The Summer Of The Release Of This Album She Was Invited To Play 11 Major Folk Festivals Including The Newport Folk Festival. Drag Queens In Limousines Won In The 1st Annual Independent Music Awards For Best Folk/Singer-Songwriter Song. In 2002 Her Third Album "Filth And Fire" Was Named "Best Indy CD Of The Year" By Jon Pareles Of The New York Times In 2006. She Moved To Nashville Tennessee And Secured A Record Deal With Lost Highway A Division Of Universal Music And Secured A Publishing Deal With Harlan Howard Songs. Her First Major Label Release In 2005 Mercy Now Was On The Top 10 List For The Year In Dozens Of Publications Including The New York Times The Los Angeles Times The Daily News And Billboard Magazine. She Was Awarded "New Artist Of The Year" By The Americana Music Association The Same Year. Her Second Lost Highway Release "Between Daylight And Dark" Appeared In September 2007. She Has Had Her Songs Recorded By Numerous Artists Including Jimmy Buffett Tim McGraw Blake Shelton Bill Chambers And Candi Staton. read less