Artists > Ellis Paul

ELLIS PAUL

This page contains Ellis Paul songs, albums and video links. Music profile for Ellis Paul with events, tracks, videos, pictures, lyrics and band information.

Ellis Paul similar artists

Ellis Paul (born January 14, 1965) is an American singer-songwriter and folk music|folk musician. Born Paul Plissey in Aroostook County, Maine, Paul is a key figure in what has become known as the Boston, Massachusetts|Boston school of songwriter|songwriting, a literate, provocative and urbanely romantic folk-pop style that helped ignite the folk revival of the 1990s.<ref>Alarik, Scott. Sound choice. ''Boston Globe'', April 24, 1998.</ref> His pop music songs have appeared in movies and on television, bridging the gap between the modern folk sound and the populist traditions of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger.<ref name="websitebio">[http://www.ellispaul.com/index.php?page=bio Ellis Paul biography] EllisPaul.com. Retrieved January 10, 2007.</ref>

Having grown up in a small town in Maine, Paul attended Boston College on a track scholarship where he majored in English. An athletic injury sustained during his junior year changed the course of his professional career.<ref name="Gerwetz">Gerwetz, Daniel. Passim hosts balladeer. ''The Boston Herald'', Friday, February 19, 1993.</ref> Paul picked up a guitar to pass the time while sidelined, and discovered that playing guitar and writing songs was the creative outlet he had been looking for. After graduating from college he began playing at open mike|open mic nights in the Bos... read all