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 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. :(
yeah I didn't write that last message, sorry that my page sends you lies :( so anyway June is by far my favorite time of year too... it's just the best anywhere you go in this big 'ol wide country if you ask me :)
sure gonna need your vibes in the air next tuesday when we track the new annas ghost album and tomorrow when matt and i mix the line of force album and friday when we bust a bunch of funk and soul at emily and kevin's new gorgeous listening room and then saturday with esperanza and tomorrow when line of force plays the revolution rock club in boston. we're sure gonna need you in the air then paulbrown
HIppo, Birdie, two ewe(ME)...Hippo, birdie, two ewe(ME)....Hippo, birdie, to Daaaannnniiii(ME)...Hippo, birdie, two ewe!!!!....We are having a GREAT time in NYC...we saw RENT last night...it was AMAZING...it was their 5000th performance! It's too bad you can't make it to see it before it closes...it's so beautiful....Time Sqaure was CRAZY and wonderful at the same time...we're going back with the kids today....Justin babysat the kids last night and he survived!!! ;-) ....Love you! xoxox
Hey Poopster! We're in NYC now! We took the CRAZIEST cab ride from Penn Station to Brooklyn...i thought we were gonna die, but Justin and Gabi said that the was a very relaxing cab ride!....oh well...they had fireworks last night to celebrate the Brooklyn Bridge's Birthday...we watched them from the roof...so cool....we haven't seen any cute sailors, yet, but we're headed downtown in about an hour....WOO HOO! IT'S FLEET WEEK!!!
Hey Poopster....the cutest thing happened today....Baba bought donuts from Dunks today for James' birthday and when he brought them in this morning, I told him that James was still sleeping, so he went upstairs with the donuts, to wake him up....he then came downstairs, chuckling, and said, "I think James ate a chicken" and I said "what are you talking about?" and then James came excitedly running down the stairs and when he came over to me, he had a huge grin and a feather from his down comforter stuck to some dried up drool, by his mouth....it was SOOOOOOO FUNNY.....I thought you might get a chuckle from that!....love you...btw...you look like someone from the "Nine in the Afternoon" video!!
How's it all Paul! Hey man, I got your message a while ago when you were passing by D.C. I don't know what happened, I think I was away when you left eh message. Anyways, I am really sorry for not calling you and even more sorry for missing you. Hope to catch you next time. I might be in Portland probably sometime in August. I'll definitely let you know! Hope all is well, good to hear from you! ~Behzad
Heyyy Paulll.. How are you doing? I can't wait to hear you play again... Oh..plus i miss you..lol.. haha..oh and don't forget our song..for the caron's that is..
If you ever do a children's album I will buy one for all of my friends and a few for me. I'm glad you're back in town and hope to run in to ya sometime!
Mr. B. Thanks for the call today. we will chat soon. I'm glad your well and back in ME I love your songs and want to here what you've got lately. Much love Da Frank
