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Ellis Paul
Timeline
-1989-
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Urban Folk Songs,
produced by Tom Dube and Bruce Bartone,
released on End Construction Productions |
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September: First Club Passim gig opening for
John Gorka |
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Oct 23: First paid gig at Club Passim |
-1990-
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Am I Home,
produced by Tom Dube, released on End Construction Productions |
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End Construction’s Resume Speed,
produced by Brian Doser, released on End Construction Productions |
-1991-
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Winner Boston Acoustic Underground competition |
-1992-
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1st Boston Music Award for
"Outstanding New Folk/Acoustic Act" |
Compilation:
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"Ashes to Dust"
appears on Windham Hill's Legacy II |
Guest appearances:
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Bill Morrissey,
Inside |
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Chris Chandler, As Seen on No TV |
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Billy Pilgrim,
Words Without Numbers |
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Jon Svetkey,
This is Now |
-1993-
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February 1:
Say Something,
produced by Bill Morrissey, released on Black Wolf |
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2nd Boston Music Award for
"Outstanding Song of Year, Indie Label" for "Conversation with a Ghost" |
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Say Something
chosen as Editor's Big Pick in Hear Music
magazine |
Compilations:
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"Conversation with a Ghost"
appears
on the
Old
Vienna Tapes, Vol. 2 |
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"Look at the Wind Blow" appears on
Leak Magazine winter compilation |
Guest Appearances:
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Don Conoscenti, The Code |
-1994-
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April 1: Stories, produced by Ellis and
Duke Levine, released on Black Wolf |
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Winner of the Kerrville Folk Festival "Best
New Folk" Award |
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Voted one of Falcon Ridge's "Most Wanted"
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Appeared in feature article in
January/February issue of Performing Songwriter magazine |
Compilations:
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"King of 7th Avenue"
appears on Follow
That Road |
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"Last At the Table"
appears on Shelter |
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"All Along the Watchtower"
(Dylan cover)
appears on The Times They are a Changin'
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Guest appearances:
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Vance Gilbert,
Edgewise |
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Billy Pilgrim,
Billy Pilgrim |
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Don Conoscenti,
Beneath Your Moon |
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Jon Svetkey,
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah |
-1995-
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September 19: Stories re-issued by
Philo/Rounder |
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3rd Boston Music Award for
"Outstanding Local Male Vocalist" |
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4th Boston Music Award for
"Folk/Acoustic Album of the Year" for
Stories |
Compilations:
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"Paperback Man" appears on Kerrville Highlights |
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"All Things Being the Same" appears on Live at
the Postcrypt |
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"Last Call"
appears on Performing Songwriter, Vol. 2 |
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"Paperback Man"
appears on This is Boston, Not Austin,
Vol. 1 |
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"Last Call"
appears on Where Love Goes |
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"All Things Being the Same" appears on New Country |
Guest appearances:
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Rob Lytle,
Rob
Lytle |
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Jim Henry,
Jacksonville |
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Kevin McCluskey,
This Distant Light |
-1996-
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5th Boston Music Award for
"Outstanding Contemporary Folk Act" |
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6th Boston Music Award for "Rising
Star" |
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Appeared in feature article in
January/February issue of Performing
Songwriter |
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July 12: Best bet for stardom in USA Today |
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July 16: A Carnival of Voices, produced
by Jerry Marotta, released on Philo/Rounder |
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Nov 20: SESAC’s New York Music Award for
"Contemporary Folk" for A Carnival of
Voices |
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A Carnival of Voices
chosen as #1 album of the year by The World Café |
Guest appearance:
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Don Conoscenti,
Boxes of Bones [uncredited
track] |
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Matthew’s Brother,
Remember the Day |
-1997-
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7th Boston Music Award for
"Outstanding Contemporary Folk Act" |
Compilations:
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"Weightless"
appears on Live at the Iron Horse |
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"Did I Ever Know You?"
appears on This is Boston, Not Austin,
Vol. 2 |
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"Conversation with a Ghost"
appears on the Independent Music Group (IAG)
compilation |
Guest appearance:
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Mark Erelli,
Long Way From Heaven |
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Peter Spink,
All There Is
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-1998-
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End Construction/Resume Speed re-issued
by Eastern Front |
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July 14: The only performer asked
to perform all 3 nights at the 1st Annual Woody Guthrie Folk
Festival in Okemah, OK; only American filmed with Billy Bragg in the
BBC/PBS documentary The Woody Guthrie
Legacy |
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Sept 15: Translucent Soul,
produced by Jerry Marotta, released on Philo/Rounder |
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Appeared in feature article in
October/November issue of Dirty Linen |
Guest appearance:
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Buddy Mondlock,
Poetic Justice |
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Carl Cacho,
Blue Around the Edges |
-1999-
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8th Boston Music Award for
"Outstanding Contemporary Folk Album" for
Translucent Soul |
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9th Boston Music Award for
"Outstanding Singer/Songwriter; Indie Label" for "Take Me Down" |
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10th Boston Music Award for
"Outstanding Male Vocalist; Indie Label" |
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April: Rob Laurens' The Honey on the
Mountain, produced by Ellis Paul, released |
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July 13: Served as emcee for the
first night of the 2nd Annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in
Okemah, OK |
Guest appearance:
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Darryl Purpose,
Traveler's Code |
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Rob Laurens,
The Honey on the Mountain |
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John Wesley Harding,
Dynablob 3 |
Compilations:
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"Never Lived At All"
appears on
Chris Chandler's
Collaborations |
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"Just Like Jim Brown"
(duet with Don Conoscenti; Pierce Pettis cover)
appears on
Have A Heart: A Benefit for Uncle Mark Reynolds |
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"Take Me Down" and "Translucent Soul"
appear on Philo/Rounder's Touring Troubadours |
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"The World Ain’t Slowing Down"
appears on
WNCW’s
Crowd Around the Mic, Vol. 3 |
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"She Loves A Girl"
appears on
WYEP’s Live and Direct, Vol. 1. |
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"Angel in Manhattan"
appears on
The
Revolution Spreads |
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"Take Me Down"
appears on the
New Music Series Review,
Vol. 19 |
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"Love’s Too Familiar a Word" [poem]
appears on spoken word CD
Out of the Mouths of Men |
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Saturday 2:15 appears on WUMB's Folk Radio Voices II |
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Nov 5:
"The Holiday Song" recorded for
NPR at the Brick Alley in Cleveland to be part of WKSU’s Christmas radio
broadcast Ornaments and Icing |
-2000-
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March 14: Ellis Paul Live released on
Philo/Rounder |
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June 13:
"The World Ain’t Slowing Down"
released on the "Me, Myself and Irene" soundtrack |
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June 21: Sings National Anthem at Fenway Park |
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June 23: Release of the movie "Me, Myself and
Irene" featuring "The World Ain’t Slowing
Down" |
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June: Featured in Smithsonian Magazine
article on the Kerrville Folk Festival
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June 14: Appeared in feature article in
The Improper Bostonian |
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June 27: In a review of "Me, Myself and
Irene", USA Today refers to Ellis Paul as "New England cult
rocker" |
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October 20: Boston Citysearch awards Ellis
Paul the 2000 Editor’s Award for Best Local Songwriter |
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October 20: Urban Folk Songs and Am
I Home re-released on CD |
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"Look at the Wind Blow" covered by Gregg Cagno
on
Present Moment Days |
Compilations:
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"Martyr’s Lounge"
appears on
All
Folked Up: A Rounder Sampler |
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"The World Ain’t Slowing Down"
and "Conversation with a Ghost"
appear on
Rounder New Release Sampler |
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"The World Ain’t Slowing Down"
appears on the
"Me, Myself and Irene" soundtrack |
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"Conversation with a Ghost"
appears on
WDIY Studio Sessions, Vol. 1 |
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"Conversation with a Ghost"
appears on
Massachusetts For Folk |
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"All Things Being the Same"
appears on
WERS’
Live from Emerson College |
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"The World Ain’t Slowing Down"
appears on
Progressions #52: New Music for Progressive Adult Radio |
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"Maria’s Beautiful Mess"
appears on
WBJB’s
Live at the Night, Vol. 1 |
Guest Appearances:
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Vance Gilbert,
Live |
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Christopher Williams, The Silence in Between |
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Bernice Lewis,
Religion and Release |
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David Wilcox,
What You Whispered |
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Adam Dorfman,
The Difference |
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Dave Nachmanoff,
A Certain Distance |
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Don Conoscenti [EP] |
-2001-
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April 20: 11th Boston Music Award
for "Outstanding Male Singer/Songwriter" |
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September: Appeared in feature article in
Acoustic Guitar |
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November 9: Release of the movie "Shallow Hal"
featuring "Sweet Mistakes" |
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November 6:
"Sweet Mistakes" released on
the "Shallow Hal" soundtrack |
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November 15: Sweet Mistakes released on
Black Wolf |
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Kevin So’s That Oriental Guy includes
the song "Standing in the Shadow of Ellis
Paul" |
Compilations:
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"Take Me Down"
appears on New Music Made in New England |
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"Sweet Mistakes"
appears on "Shallow Hal" soundtrack |
Guest Appearances:
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Lori McKenna,
Pieces of Me |
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Don Conoscenti,
Paradox of Grace |
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Darryl Purpose,
A Crooked Line |
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Don Conoscenti [advance single] |
-2002-
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January 11-14: 1st Ellis Paul
FanClub cruise to the Bahamas |
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January 17: Named FolkWax 2001 "Artist of the
Year" |
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April: Featured in the book Letters to JD
Salinger edited by Chris Kubica and Will Hochman; published by
University of Wisconsin Press |
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April 20: 12th Boston Music Award
for "Outstanding Male Singer/Songwriter Album" for
Sweet Mistakes |
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June: Notes From the Road
published by Black Wolf Press |
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November 5:
"If You Break Down" featured
on the TV show "Ed" |
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September 10: Speed of Trees released
on Philo/Rounder |
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December: Appeared in feature article on the
Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in Dirty
Linen |
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December: Appeared in New Release Spotlight in
Performing Songwriter |
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"Jumpin' A Train" covered by Joel Cage
on
Professional Stranger
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Compilations:
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"Conversation with a Ghost"
appears on
Before
Their Time: Memorial Songs and Music, Vol. 2 |
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"Weightless"
appears on Rounder’s
The Singer
Songwriter Collection |
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"Sweet Mistakes"
appears on
Progressions #68: The Triple A Sampler |
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"Speed of Trees"
appears on
Fresh Picked: Live in Studio |
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"Sweet Mistakes"
appears on
City Folk Live V
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Guest Appearances:
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Justin Brooks,
Take To the Wind |
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Alastair Moock,
A Life I Never Had |
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Carl Cacho,
Spark |
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Vance Gilbert,
One Through Fourteen |
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Joel Raphael,
Woodey |
--2003-
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January: Appeared in feature article in
Paste Magazine |
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February: Spends entire month on the road as
part of the Woody Guthrie "Ribbon of Highway, Endless Skyway" tribute
tour |
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February: 3000 Miles DVD released |
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March: Prominently featured in the book
Deep Community: Adventures in the Modern Folk Underground by Scott
Alarik |
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September 9: Side of the Road released |
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October: Jack Kerouac's Doctor Sax
screenplay published [with voice of Ellis Paul as Lousy] |
Compilations:
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"Paperback Man"
appears on Best of Kerrville Folk Festival,
Vol. 1 |
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"This Train (is Bound for Glory)"
[with the Ribbon of Highway players] appears on
KGSR Broadcasts, Vol. 11. |
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"Angel in Manhattan"
appears on
We Are Each Others' Angels |
-2004-
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May 1: Recipient of the 2nd Annual Boston
College Arts Council Alumni Award |
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Sept. 30: 13th Boston Music Award
for "Outstanding Male Singer/Songwriter" |
Compilations:
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"Sweet Mistakes" appears on WFDU's
Odds and Ends: Ten Years of Crash on the Levee. |
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"The Only Way" (with Vance Gilbert) appears
on Kennebunk Coffeehouse
Best of 5 Live. |
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"Maria's Beautiful Mess" appears on WCLZ's
Greetings from Area Cose 207. (The song is on disk 2
specifically titled Greetings from "Studio Z" 2003-2004.)
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"If You Break Down" appears on
Notes of
Hopes: A Benefit for Brian and Alex. |
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"Jukebox on My Grave" appears on
Best of
the Mansion, Vol. 1. |
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"Comfort You" (with Vance Gilbert)
appears on Keeping Music in Mind. |
Guest Appearances:
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Kort & Beth McCumber,
Until I Return. |
-2005-
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April 5: American Jukebox Fables
released on Philo/Rounder. |
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April 6-19: Appeared in feature article in The Improper Bostonian. |
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Dec. 5: "Snow in Austin" single
released as download on iTunes. |
Guest Appearances:
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Flynn, An American Wake |
-2006-
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Aug. 1: Live at Club Passim released on
Black Wolf |
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Oct. 10: Ellis Paul Essentials
released on Philo/Rounder |
Guest Appearances:
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Antje Duvekot, Big Dream Boulevard |
-2007-
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Feb. 23: Ellis Paul Wikipedia article
receives Feature Article rating. |
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May 22: Ellis Paul Wikipedia article
featured on the Wikipedia Main Page. |
Compilations:
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"God's Promise" appears on Ribbon of Highway,
Endless Skyway CD |
Guest Appearances:
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Flynn, The Answer's Not Enough |
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