​Paul Cauthen (from the album Book of Paul

​Paul Cauthen (from the album Book of Paul

​Paul Cauthen (from the album Book of Paul available on Velvet Rose Records/Thirty Tigers) (by Danny McCloskey)

Describing Book of Paul, his recent release, Paul Cauthen lists the activities of a lifetime spent living. Beginning the song on the lines ‘I've cussed, I've drank, I've kicked the lights out. I've toked, I've coked, I blew the house down’, referencing ‘dancing with the devil with a bible in my hand’, and summing up the results as ‘wined and dined, plenty of fines, ruined hotel rooms’, he shows off the song as an audio photo album cataloging night-time crawls. Paul Cathen puts his actions into the good and bad decisions of the chorus, singing out about ‘black-label nights and red-label mornings. Wrongs and the rights keep writing the stories. Lessons and curses, chapters and verses, if you want the truth of it all, well, it's all in the Book of Paul’. The words of the tune are delivered by the deep, resonating voice of a man born to preach his gospel while “Book of Paul” (the song) sets the standard for the album bearing the same name.

As in his nature, Paul Cauthen delivers Book of Paul with Country Music as a code rather than a genre. He proudly points the way towards a future for the style that is more encompassing of all views, and the ways of presenting the music. On a rhythmic rumble, Paul Cauthen spells out his “Texas Swagger” while he tenderly pens a promise into “Road Dog”. He struts to a revolving drum beat wearing the skin of a “Dark Horse” and hammers out a groove for forced incarceration in “Breakaway” as he slows his musical horse to a trot for the working man beat of “Blue Denim & Black Gold”. 
Part of his appeal is Paul Cauthen’s faith in the sound he has branded. Full commitment in words and music. Friends stop by to lend voices to the album when Delaney Ramsdell joins in “Chain Smoking” and Jake Worthington for the funky groove of “Tossin’ Back Time”. Traveling a “Texas Gravel Road”, Book of Paul dances on a triphammer beat as Paul Cauthen follows a train whistle, using the rhythm of the rails for the rhythms of “Ain’t Now Crime” before exiting the album on the ambient musical bed that cradles “The Voice Inside (Silence)”. (by Danny McCloskey)
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