singing and dancing, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo, bass guitar, acoustic piano, electric piano, accordian, harmonium, harmonica, organ, cello, trombone, sousaphone, trumpet, french horn, that old tamborine, kazoo, ladies, car keys, and almost all of the songwriting - paulbrown
Influences
while shaving his face; paul enjoys singing along with in rainbows, dead end armory, and houses of the holy.
while laying in bed; paul enjoys reading cannery row, jitterbug perfume, and one flew over the cookoos nest.
while trying to be an adult; paul thinks about his father, his father's father, our fore fathers, and Feist.
while writing songs, paul enjoys climbing trees, takings naps, driving cars, and chasing girls.
One afternoon a little baby was having a nap. He went on to grow into an imaginative young man. His parents invested in a trumpet for him to learn and play. He spent many years playing in the School Band. Later, he stumbled into the theater. After the first night before an audience the boy knew what he was made to do. Throughout his teens he assumed as many roles as he could get. It sure was better for him than drugs. When it was time to leave high school behind, the young man had an important choice to make: a career playing the trumpet in orchestras, or a career playing characters in rooms full of people. He knew he was not cut out for the armed forces. He chose to study acting in the depths of the Pavillion Theater up in Orono, Maine. He flew through school with ease and grew into an excellent leader and fine showman to boot. Then came the time to leave the quiet life of his parents home in the Great North Woods of northern New Hampshire. After driving by Portland, Maine on the freeway a few times, he assumed it would be the perfect place for him to acclimate himself to city life and start his career.
One day at a friends house he came across an old guitar his grandmother had found for him years before. He took it home and it helped cure his lonliness. He found that he could write simple yet wonderful songs with ease. He spent more and more time playing them for the folks at Acoustic Coffee. Now after close to three years of scrambling for work, food, and lady friends, Paul finally finds himself of the brink of a beautiful run of music, drama, and laughter for the people. This run will take him to the farthest reaches of the Royal Albert Hall's balconies, and the secludiest beaches of small unamed islands in the Pacific. There is potential for him to touch millions of souls and light many more hearts in his adventures. He firmly believes this for shortly after experiencing the whole thing, he awoke nestled in his baby blanket in the nursery of his young parents home. It was then that he realized he was going to have to go out and do it.
I love your new recordings! I am headed to Portland tomorrow night and was sad to see that you don't live there anymore... I got a bunch of new songs I wanted to play for you. Do you ever listen to Mungo Jerry?
Hey... I just had some time to listen to your new songs. They sound wonderful. Made me miss you more. Hope everything is going really well and that you are happy and healthy. xo
i walked onto the train to go some place, and sat down. across the aisle from me, in the seat directly in sights view was a man with his head down. he looked so much like you, for a second i thought i was going to run up and hug him, however, when he lifted his head, there was no sparkle in his eye and thats when i knew, it was somebody else. i miss your sparkle.
we love you, miss you, and wish you a great new year. every time I go into south portland(Borders especially), I have hopes that you'd jump out and surprise me. That was a great day. love you as always, -wesley
Just checking up to see how the west coast is treatin ya! I saw your video on youtube called "side". Great Rhodes tone, man. I love listening to the vibrato waves making the back beat.
The song atrip is well a real trip, eh? Can't catch the lyrics but feels like.. passenger train.. window seat.. night run.. full speed.. disjointed conversation.. then destination reached.. i like it!
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Hi Paul, always pleasantly surprised when I visit, never know what to expect from you! Our Song is absolutely precious, thanks for sharing. Best wishes from Coldspring, Texas .. dog days of summer here, 100 degrees in porch shade ...
i have spent many a night with your music filling my ears simple and connected to the source, powerful and all that matters. grocery is from the perspective of a deformed maine medical patient in the hospital cafeteria line, i was stripping and rewaxing the tile floors overnight and getting my lunch, the woman says to the little pathetic man clearly out of pity, "you can't walk home alone you'll get robbed." and the man very dramatically says with his garbly voice, "oh let them rob me! I have a brother you know, he has a wife, he doesn't look like me, he can lose, look at me! oh.. oh .. let them rob me!" :p luv u paul.
I love June is beautiful and powerful in its simplicity...the mellow drone of the rhythm with the "accompanying" vocals are a delight...on this gray Decembers day!
paul brown, as i live and breathe, you have written me an unsolicited comment!!! i am so happy! i knewi loved turtles for a reason. i am fine, except for the usual blah with the two from the wedding you attended with the family! hope you are well. you were back here and i never even saw you. :(
