Mary Gauthier's third album 'Filth & Fire' appeared on many of the top CD of the Year lists throughout the country, with Jon Pareles in The New York Times ranking the album as the #1 Independent Album of the Year. Unflinching honesty makes Filth & Fire a triumph, the best singer-songwriter album of the year... reported NO DEPRESSION, shortly after the album's release in July 2002. Filth & Fire should establish her as one of the finest artists in the whole alt country field, reported the Washington Post.She is the People's Heart of Alternative Country, said media in Ireland after a recent European tour, and it is a sentiment that is shared by audiences everywhere Mary tours-in the U.S., in Europe, and most recently this summer, on festival stages throughout Canada.A Louisiana native, Mary studied philosophy for five years at Louisiana State University before traveling east to study at the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts. Mary opened an award-winning restaurant, Dixie Kitchen, in Boston's historic B