Mary Gauthier: The Foundling | CD review

(Proper)Mary Gauthier is a survivor with a remarkable history. She was abandoned in New Orleans as a baby, ran away from her adopted parents as a teenager, then battled with drink and drugs before settling down to study philosophy, open a restaurant and change direction yet again in her thirties, when she became a singer-songwriter on the folk/country circuit. Her life story has been reflected in many of her finely observed story-songs, but now comes a concept album dealing with the pain of bein...

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