Mary Gauthier didn’t appear onstage ‘til a traumatic night in Boston aged 29 and she’s been a songwriter and storyteller ever since, much of the raw material from the rigours of her early life. She looks back here, in the euphoria of post-election Nashville, at the personal landmarks and what she’s learnt along the way, which includes …
… how to connect with any audience
… how the crowd treated the opening act at a Charlie Rich show she saw aged 10
… memories of Led Zeppelin, Queen, Bad Company and Springsteen’s River tour (“our greatest living storyteller”)
… in praise of troubadours – Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Neil Young, Judy Collins and John Prine (“the Mark Twain of our time”)
… the ordeal of her first night onstage, an open mic in Boston aged 29
… the thrill of Jimmy Buffett and Boy George covering her songs and Dylan playing her on Theme Time Radio Hour
… the event that changed her relationship with her father
… “love, fear, anger, loss, gratification, mortality and other universal themes”
… “it’s lame to tell people what a song’s about before you play it”
… what turns people into performers and the song she always plays.
Order Mary Gauthier tickets here: www.marygauthier.com/tour
And copies of ‘the Reckoning’ album here: https://soundlymusic.ffm.to/mg-reckoningalbum
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