Mary Gauthier – review

Union Chapel, LondonSongs about rebels and outcasts may be commonplace in country music, but true mavericks are harder to find, and don't necessarily look like Nashville stars. Mary Gauthier carried an acoustic guitar and had a harmonica strapped round her neck, like the young Dylan, and her opening song, Last of the Hobo Kings, was a true story that had echoes of Steinbeck and Woody Guthrie. Then, with the dry, sadly humorous I Drink, came a reminder of her own tough upbringing. Abandoned as a ...

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