A Southern-tinged troubadour from Tupelo, Miss., Paul Thorn writes songs about pimps and preachers, tattoos and love scars. “Pimps & Preachers,” the title track for Thorn’s latest album, is inspired ...

Like a lot of folks, we’re sure, Rocks Off is chomping at the bit to get our ears around the remastered and expanded version of the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street, due in stores Tuesday. Rocks ...

Paul Thorn, the former boxer turned roots music singer-songwriter, delivered a knockout performance at the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts on Friday. Thorn, whose music is a blend of blues ...

One time around with the music business machine was enough for singer/songwriter Paul Thorn. Thorn was playing a pizza joint in his hometown, Tupelo, Miss., when an associate of Miles Copeland walked ...

Preachers, Dean Martin, gospel music, and Elvis Presley's hometown of Tupelo, Mississippi all have a place in Paul Thorn's songs, and after twenty-something years of taking the long road to success he ...

That’s how the teen-age Elvis, seeking an audition, answered Sam Phillips’ question of who he sounded like when Elvis met the celebrated head of Sun Records. Paul Thorn, another Tupelo, Mississippi, ...

Live at Lake Effect is our music series featuring local and nationally touring artists performing in the Lake Effect Surf Shop in Shorewood, Wisconsin. We brought the Lake Effects together, along with ...

Mississippi songwriter and rootsy rock storyteller Paul Thorn makes another West Michigan stop in support of his new album, “Pimps and Preachers,” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at The Intersection, 133 ...

Before Paul Thorn made his living as a singer, he was a professional boxer. He also spent 12 years working at a furniture factory in his hometown of Tupelo, Miss. "I was the one that put springs in ...

The border was “brutal.” After immediately seeing a man get turned away for a crime he committed 30 years ago, Paul Thorn, a musician and former boxer, was thoroughly searched before he was allowed to ...

Paul Thorn would have no problem holding his own if some unruly audience member unwisely singled him out for a physical altercation. Before settling into his career as a soulful singer and songwriter, ...

High Fidelity, a young act on the Rebel Records roster, picks strong bluegrass. Openers Tatiana Hargreaves and Sonya Badigian lead a band slinging both old-time and bluegrass numbers. Guys from ...