Those of y'all who got today's Sunday Times may have read an article in the Culture section about the country songwriter Mary Gauthier who is supporting Willie Nelson when he plays Dublin later this year. I strongly recommended that if you want to hear what first class songs actually sound like on an acoustic guitar that you check out some of her albums. Dixie Kitchen (my fav) Drag Queens in Limousines Filth and Fire She didn't write her first song until she was 35 and was the oldest performer in the Open Mics she cut her teeth in by nearly two decades. And has built her career by living true to Townes Van Zandt's dictum that what the world needs are great songs, and not the merely good.