Paul Thorn: Former Boxer's Songwriting Packs Nonconformist Punch

Paul Thorn's songs communicate honest humility and empathy. They tend to celebrate the singer-songwriter's own mistakes in a very comfortable and strangely euphoric manner. There is humor and sarcasm we can all relate to. It's all trial and error and tears and a 'roll-up-the-sleeves', Pabst-drinking brand of rootsy blues music -- hard-rocking and inextricably Southern. Son of a Pentecostal minister, Paul was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and moved to Tupelo, Mississippi at an early age after his f...