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fave it Traditional Folk | Country Blues
13 tracks | 54 minutes
Released Aug 2005
on Paul Michel
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:32 No John Henry lyrics FREE 04:32 No John Henry lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:32 No John Henry
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:00 Swannanoa Valley lyrics BUY MP3 03:00 Swannanoa Valley lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:00 Swannanoa Valley
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 06:04 Those Old Days lyrics BUY MP3 06:04 Those Old Days lyrics "GIFT MP3" 06:04 Those Old Days
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:28 Gotta Be a Wheel lyrics BUY MP3 05:28 Gotta Be a Wheel lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:28 Gotta Be a Wheel
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 06:02 Belly of the Mountain lyrics BUY MP3 06:02 Belly of the Mountain lyrics "GIFT MP3" 06:02 Belly of the Mountain
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:38 New Red Chair/Eight Miles to the Cumberland lyrics BUY MP3 03:38 New Red Chair/Eight Miles to the Cumberland lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:38 New Red Chair/Eight Miles to the Cumberland
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:08 Miss You Like Christmas lyrics BUY MP3 03:08 Miss You Like Christmas lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:08 Miss You Like Christmas
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:03 Nobody's Mama lyrics BUY MP3 04:03 Nobody's Mama lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:03 Nobody's Mama
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:31 Fish Rapper Rag lyrics BUY MP3 02:31 Fish Rapper Rag lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:31 Fish Rapper Rag
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:05 I Looked Out lyrics BUY MP3 04:05 I Looked Out lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:05 I Looked Out
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:06 Secondhand Smoke lyrics BUY MP3 03:06 Secondhand Smoke lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:06 Secondhand Smoke
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:24 Our Last Goodbye lyrics BUY MP3 04:24 Our Last Goodbye lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:24 Our Last Goodbye
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:24 Time and I lyrics BUY MP3 04:24 Time and I lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:24 Time and I
Back porch tunes and country blues by a multi-instumentalist and songwriter from Seattle.
Bio / Background
Paul Michel was born in Philadelphia in 1957. His first musical instrument was an eight-key xylophone that he played with a serving spoon. At the age of eight, after his family had moved to central Ohio, he relinquished the spoon and started learning tunes on his father's old "potato bug" mandolin. He got his own mandolin in 1967, a guitar a few years later, and an old Sears and Roebuck fiddle in 1974. He never returned to the xylophone.
During his high school years, Paul had the chance to hear and play with many great old-time and bluegrass musicians at dances, festivals and taverns around Columbus. While attending college in Gambier, Ohio, he fiddled in a country band with Howard and Judy Sacks, Bob Cantwell and Gordon Keller. He learned a lot of and about music from them, from recordings of past and present masters and from great young players like Jeff and Rick Goehring, Kerry Blech and the Maple Hill Rounders from northern Ohio, as well as from his own brother Bob.
↓ more ↓He spent summers in the late 1970's traveling and playing in upstate New York, Boston, Seattle, North Carolina and many points between, soaking up tunes, styles and songs.
After college Paul lived in the west of Ireland for a year, learning the fiddle music of County Clare. He returned to the States in 1980, and moved to Seattle in 1981. During the 1980s he headed up the Tidewater Stringband, performing old time music at festivals and fairs around Puget Sound. He was also a guitar and mandolin player for Howie and Lori Meltzer's Interstate Stringband.
Paul played less publicly during the 1990s, but in the past couple of years he has returned to the guitar and mandolin as well as the fiddle, and he's tried his hand at songwriting. The influences, inputs and errors of forty years of playing have resulted in a sound that isn't easy to categorize, but in one way or another it's all country music, nothing "alt" about it, inspired by the great ballad, blues and barn dance traditions that emerged in rural America during the early 1900s, "went to town" in the second half of the century and remain very much alive and picking today.
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