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Paul Thorn is perhaps one of the best entertainers to grace the stage in LIVE MUSIC.
My Wife and I had the pleasure of seeing Ruthie Foster and Paul Thorn in concert this last week end and Paul Thorn was a hit in Scottsdale Arizona.
Paul Thorn ...Entertainer
The Compound Grill is a small venue that was sold out, and more people singing the chorus to Pauls Songs than I had ever seen at a show before. The man is a great story teller and down home folksy blues like you have never heard.
Paul Thorn Backstage at Mountain Stage with Larry Groce. The Tupelo, Miss. singer discusses his latest CD "Pimps and Preachers" with Mountain Stage host Larry Groce. Visit mountainstage.org for more on this episode.
If you get the chance to see this entertainer with Ruthie Foster and Soul solution, or with his band..... DO NOT MISS THE SHOW!
Pimps & Preachers addresses this lingering riddle. On Thorn's ninth album, released on his own Perpetual Obscurity label (through Thirty Tigers/RED), the answer begins in the title and the cover image, painted by Thorn with the same power, paradoxes, rough edges and passions that animate his writing and performance. Specifically, it takes us to a central theme of Thorn's youth: the pull of polar opposites - one representing the severe ecstasies of fundamental faith and the other, the pleasures stigmatized and yet glamorized by the church.
Similar ambiguities fuel the work of other artists to whom Thorn can be compared, from Tom Waits and Lucinda Williams all the way back to Robert Johnson and Hank Williams. What stands Thorn apart from this august company is how personally this dichotomy guided his formative years. In his seminal albums, particularly his landmark Mission Temple Fireworks Stand, his upbringing as the son of a Church of God pentecostal minister became a matter of record. What hasn't been clear, though, is the parallel impact of his father's brother, who showed up suddenly from California when Thorn was 12 years old.
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The stories that he weaves along with the great guitar and rhythm is amazing.
The comedy in his songs is subtle as a sledge hammer. Just great listening!
It's a great day, for me to whoop somebody's ass. It's a bad day, so you better get off my back You might get cold cocked, if you cross my path. Cause its a great day, for me to whoop somebody's ass.
