Mary Gauthier: The Darker Side of Dixie
Chris Smith, Rockrgrl, January 2000
MIDNIGHT HAS LONG since passed, and we're sitting in the dim alley behind the legendary Club Passim in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The fire escape puts us above and behind the open stage doors, where the live music is slipping across the patio and swirling below our feet like a curious breeze.
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