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Stories, Paul's second album, was originally issued by Black Wolf Records in 1994. With his distinctive, plaintive singing and writer's eye for details, the album features Paul's intimate confessional side ("Here She Is," "Last Call" ) and a previously-unheard rockier side, his vocals floating above a full band driven by guitarist extraodinaire ...
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Stories by Ellis Paul released in 1994. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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- Early Life
- Career
- Collaborations
- Songwriting
- Children's Books
- Sports Honor
- University of Maine Honor
- Further Reading/Listening
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Ellis Paul was born in Fort Kent, Maine, a small, rural potato-farming town near the Canada–US border. Paul's family had strong connections to the potato industry – his father, Ed Plissey, was Executive Director of the Maine Potato Commission and his grandfather owned a 140-acre (0.57 km2) potato farm. Schools in the area closed for three weeks eac...
Early career: 1987–1990
Paul majored in English at Boston College where he continued to participate in track. His best time in the 10,000 meters (30:18:50) remains the fourth best men's outdoor record in Boston College history. When a knee injury in his junior year sidelined him from athletics, Paul picked up an acoustic guitar to pass the time. He taught himself to play guitar with the help of a Hits of the 70s songbook, and began to write songs. Boston radio included a classic hits station that played the music of...
Rising success: 1990–2000
Winning the Boston Acoustic Underground Award in 1991 resulted in Paul playing to the largest crowd of his career to that point – 300. He continued to play in and around the New England area. Around this time, Windham Hill Records, which had previously released the Legacy songwriter compilation, put a call out to the music industry asking for songwriter submissions to be considered for the follow-up Legacy II compilation. After the Old Vienna Kaffeehouse sent one of Paul's tapes to Windham Hi...
2000–2003
Paul released his first live recording, simply titled Live, on March 14, 2000. The double-disk included recordings from several shows, as well as previously unreleased studio tracks. Highlights of the year 2000 included Paul singing the National Anthem at Fenway Park, and having his song "The World Ain't Slowing Down" chosen for the theme song in the Farrelly brothers movie Me, Myself and Irene starring Jim Carrey and Renée Zellweger. Both events took place on the same June weekend. In Novemb...
In 2000 Paul contributed backing vocals to Dave Nachmanoff's"A Certain Distance". In September 2003 Paul released Side of the Road, a duo album recorded with good friend Vance Gilbert. The two songwriters, who have often shared the stage, each chose four cover songs to record – individual favorites – plus one song of their own. Although the album d...
"Boston-style" songwriting refers to the introspective and literate breed of singer-songwriter so prevalent in the modern folk music landscape. According to Paul, Boston-style songwriting grew out of Boston's thriving folk scene with its dense collection of colleges, college radio stations and listening rooms. Boston radio includes the University o...
On September 1, 2014, Paul's children's CD Hero in Youwas published as a book by Albert Whitman & Company. Illustrated by Angela Padron, the book of American biographies includes a copy of the CD with exclusive introductory tracks by Paul. The accompanying CD allows young readers to listen to each song while discovering additional facts about Paul'...
In September 2012, Presque Isle High School announced that Paul would be one of four high school graduates inducted into its Athletic Hall of Fame at the third annual ceremony on January 11, 2013. During his high school career, Paul – a member of the class of 1983 – starred in cross-country and track. He won a cross-country state championship as a ...
On May 17, 2014, Paul was the commencement address speaker at the University of Maine at Presque Isle's 105th commencement. Paul was also awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree during the commencement ceremony.At the conclusion of his commencement address, Paul performed his composition "Rise Up, Presque Isle" which has been adopted as...
Books
1. 2003 – Kerouac, Jack. Doctor Sax and the Great World Snake, Mint Publishers, ISBN 0-9729733-0-3. (Screenplay recorded on two audio CDs with Ellis Paul as the voice of Lousy.) 2. 2003 – Alarik, Scott. Deep Community: Adventures in the Modern Folk Underground, Boston: Black Wolf Press, ISBN 0-9720270-1-7. (Prominently features Ellis Paul.) 3. 2002 – Paul, Ellis. Notes From the Road, Boston: Black Wolf Press, ISBN 0-9720270-0-9. (Paul's self-illustrated book of lyrics, poems and journal entri...
Magazines
(See the Ellis Paul Archives for a more comprehensive listing.) 1. 2006 – Perricone, Mike. gallery: ellis paul. Did Galileo Pray? Symmetry: Dimensions of Particle Physics, Jun/Jul 2006, p. 28–9. Retrieved February 10, 2007. 2. 2005 — Soroff, Jonathan. Soroff on Ellis Paul. Improper Bostonian, Apr 6–19, 2005, p. 16. 3. 2002 — Rutz, Kathy. New Release Spotlight: Ellis Paul. Performing Songwriter, Dec 2002, p. 26. 4. 2000 — Weider, Tamara. Ellis Paul: On the road again. Improper Bostonian, June...
Miscellany
1. 2011 — Never Not Funny: The Jimmy Pardo Podcast Video of Ellis Paul appearing on Never Not Funnyhosted by Jimmy Pardo. February 2, 2011. 2. 2007 — Studio Concert Series: Ellis Paul. Video interview/performance recorded at Blue Rock Studios in Wimberley, Texas. May 10, 2007. 3. 2004 — "Inside the BC Studio: A Conversation with Ellis Paul". Video interview at Boston College with Scott Alarik as part of the Boston College Arts Council Alumni Award weekend festivities. April 30, 2004. 4. 1999...
"Ellis Paul". Fleming Artists. Archived from the originalon September 2, 2014."Ellis Paul Archives". Archived from the original on June 14, 2009. Retrieved September 26, 2009.Ellis Paul at AllMusicExplore the tracklist, credits, statistics, and more for Stories by Ellis Paul. Compare versions and buy on Discogs.
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