Mary Gauthier-The Foundling-(Advance)-2010-SiRE

Artist: Mary Gauthier

Title: The Foundling

Label: Proper Records

Genre: Folk

Bitrate: 176kbit av.

Time: 00:46:25

Size: 66.68 mb

Rip Date: 2010-04-09

Str Date: 2010-05-17



01. The Foundling 3:39

02. Mama Here, Mama Gone 4:02

03. Goodbye 4:15

04. Sideshow 4:17

05. Interlude 1 0:27

06. Blood Is Blood 5:17

07. March 11, 1962 5:47

08. Walk In The Water 4:51

09. Interlude 2 0:46

10. Sweet Words 4:18

11. The Orphan King 4:47

12. Another Day Borrowed 3:33

13. Coda 0:26



Release Notes:



Abandoned as a baby by her unwed mother at an ophanage in New Orleans,

American folksinger Mary GauthierÆs life has been a tough one. She left

home at 15, got into drugs and trouble and spent her 18th birthday in

jail.



All this provided plenty of material for her earlier albums, but with

her latest one The Foundling, which she was in Sydney to promote

earlier this week, the 48-year-old singer-songwriter has put her life

into perspective.



In it she sings - or speaks, rather - about a meeting with her birth

mother when she was 45. ôI was still her shameful secret. She had no

desire to meet me.ö That song is called March 11, 1962 - the day she

was born.



The lasting effects of abandonment are discussed in Sweet Words, a

haunting tune about a relationship gone wrong. ôLooking back now I can

see that it was actually about the mother IÆve never known,ö she says.



This collection is brave territory for Gauthier, and although the mood

is sombre and her voice has a plaintive edge to it, itÆs not all doom

and gloom. Sideshow is a lot more uppy, with a honky-tonky piano and a

trombone to give it a vaudeville atmosphere. Some tracks have a country

influence, or even cajun with a use of piano accordion.



Blood Is Blood is a very strong track with some nice smoky electric

guitar and a steady beat behind GauthierÆs acoustic fingerstyle guitar.



However these are all songs driven by their lyrics and the emotive

subject matter. They are honest without being self-pitying, but you

have to be in the right mood for them.



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