Music at the Pinnacle Center
Playing percussion instruments donated by MTBM.

Readin', Writin' & Ryth-ma-tic 7

November 3, 2012 @ 6:00pm

An auction dinner concert to benefit music education in our schools. This year's guest will be announced soon.


Paul Thorn

Last year's special guest was Paul Thorn. Among those who value originality, inspiration, eccentricity, and character - as well as talent that hovers somewhere on the outskirts of genius, the story of Paul Thorn is already familiar. Now, Thorn reveals another layer of his fascinating history on the album, addressing that subject on the title cut and in the intriguing "family portrait" he painted for the cover.

Born in Tupelo, Mississippi and raised among the same spirits (and some of the actual people) who nurtured a young Elvis generations before, Thorn has rambled down back roads and jumped out of airplanes, worked for years in a furniture factory, battled four-time world champion boxer Roberto Durán on national television, signed with and been dropped by a major label, opened for Bonnie Raitt, Mark Knopfler, and John Prine among many other headliners, and made some of the most emotionally restless yet fully accessible music of our time.

Still, Thorn's story has never been complete. If you follow it back through his songs, at some point near the beginning the mysteries gather like a mist, obscuring the picture and leaving unanswered the question of how he acquired his ability to find brilliance buried in shadows, darkness in daylight, poetry in the mundane, and truth in the brutal beauties of life.


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