ELLIS PAUL
Discography, Published Works, Awards and Accomplishments
Discography: Studio CDs
2014 Chasing Beauty
Black Wolf Records
2012 City of Silver Dreams
Black Wolf Records
2012 The Hero in You
Black Wolf Records
2010 The Day After Everything Changed
Black Wolf Records
2008 A Summer Night in Georgia: Live at Eddie’s Attic
Black Wolf Records
2008 Live From WERS
Black Wolf Records
2008 The Dragonfly Races
Black Wolf Records
2006 Live at Club Passim
Black Wolf Records
2005 American Jukebox Fables
Philo/Rounder
2003 Side of the Road (with Vance Gilbert)
Philo/Rounder
2002 Speed of Trees
Philo/Rounder
2001 Sweet Mistakes
Co-Op Pop Records
2000 Ellis Paul Live
Philo/Rounder
1998 Translucent Soul
Philo/Rounder
1995 A Carnival of Voices
Philo/Rounder
1994 Stories
Black Wolf Records; reissued by Philo/Rounder in 1995
1993 Say Something
Black Wolf Records
1989 Urban Folk Songs
Black Wolf Records; on cassette; reissued on CD in 2001
1989 Am I Home
Black Wolf Records; on cassette; reissued on CD in 2001
Discography: Compilation CDs
2013 The 15th Annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival CD Sampler
The Woody Guthrie Coalition; “3000 Miles” (Recorded 7-14-12)
2013 For the Love of the Music: the Club 47 Folk Revival
Kingswood Records; “Hurricane Angel” and with Antje Duvekot on “Sweet Spot”
2011 Joey’s Song: Fighting Epilepsy With Music
Joseph Gomoll Foundation; “Mr. Teetot”
2011 The Best of the Musicl Merry-go-Round: Live at KDHX
St. Louis County Library; “Road Trip”
2009 Singer-Songwriter Heaven: The Songs of Kevin Faherty
Gamblers Grace Music; “Singer-Songwriter Heaven”
2008 Live & Direct, Vol. 10: Studio Performances from WYEP
91.3FM-CD; “Jukebox on My Grave”
2005 MVY Radio Fresh Produce 1
MVY Radio; “Blacktop Train”
2005 Best of The Mansion, Vol. 1
Friends of Music; “Jukebox on My Grave”
2005 Notes of Hope: A Benefit for Brian and Alex
“If You Break Down”
2004 Keeping Music in Mind (Alzheimer’s Association benefit)
Rounder Records; “Comfort You” with Vance Gilbert
2004 Greetings from Area Code 207
WCLZ; “Maria’s Beautiful Mess”
2004 Best of 5 Live
Kennebunk Coffeehouse; “The Only Way” with Vance Gilbert
2004 Odds and Ends: Ten Years of Crash on the Levee
WFDU; “Sweet Mistakes”
2003 We Are Each Others’ Angels
Hungry for Music; “Angel in Manhattan”
2003 KGSR Broadcasts, Vol. 11
KGSR; with the Ribbon of Highway players on “This Train”
2003 Best of the Kerrville Folk Festival, Vol. 1
Silverwolf Records; “Paperback Man”
2003 Songmania: More Songs About Love and Despair
“All My Heroes Were Junkies”
2002 CityFolk V
WFUV; “Sweet Mistakes”
2002 Progressions #68: The Triple A Sampler
FMQB; “Sweet Mistakes”
2002 Before Their Time, Vol. II
“Conversation With a Ghost”
2002 The Singer Songwriter Collection
Rounder; “Weightless”
2002 Fresh Picked: Live on Folk Salad
Folk Salad Records; “Speed of Trees”
2001 Shallow Hal soundtrack
Island, “Sweet Mistakes”
2001 New Music Made in New England
Rounder YM1; “Take Me Down”
2000 Live at the Night – 90.5 the Night, Vol. 1
WBJB; “Maria’s Beautiful Mess”
2000 Progressions #52: New Music for Progressive Adult Radio
KFMU; “The World Ain’t Slowing Down”
2000 WERS Live from Emerson College
Emerson Records; “All Things Being the Same” (listed incorrectly as being “Look at
the Wind Blow
2000 Massachusetts For Folk
WUMB; “Conversation With a Ghost”
2000 WDIY Studio Sessions, Vol. 1
Bummer Tent; “Conversation With a Ghost”
2000 Me, Myself & Irene soundtrack
Elektra; “The World Ain’t Slowing Down”
2000 Rounder March 2000 New Release Sampler
Rounder; “The World Ain’t Slowing Down” and “Conversation With a Ghost”
2000 All Folked Up: A Rounder Sampler (Vol. 1)
Rounder; “Martyr’s Lounge”
1999 New Music Series Review, Vol. 19
First Media Communications; “Take Me Down”
1999 Out of the Mouths of Men
Susan Tegeler and Brightspot Studios; spoken word CD that includes Ellis Paul doing a
reading of “Love’s Too Familiar a Word”
1999 The Revolution Spreads
Fast Company; “Angel in Manhattan”
1999 Live & Direct, Vol. 1: Studio Performances from WYEP
91.3FM-CD; “She Loves a Girl”
1999 Crowd Around the Mic: Live on WNCW, Vol. 3
WNCW; “The World Ain’t Slowing Down”
1999 Touring Troubadours: 19 Tracks from the Hardest Working Artists in the Business!
Rounder; “Take Me Down” and “Translucent Soul”
1999 Have a Heart: A Benefit for Uncle Mark Reynolds
Oasis CDs; “Just Like Jim Brown” with Don Conoscenti
1999 Chris Chandler’s Collaborations
Prime-CD; “Never Lived at All”
1999 Folk Radio Voices II
WUMB; “Saturday 2:15”
1997 This is Boston, Not Austin, Vol. 2
Black Wolf; “Did I Ever Know You” and poem “Love’s Too Familiar a Word”
1997 Live at the Iron Horse
Signature Sounds; “Weightless”
1997 The Independent Acoustic Group Compilation
IAG; “Conversation With a Ghost”
1995 New Country
Cornell Communications; “All Things Being the Same”
1995 Where Love Goes
CD to accompany the novel by Joyce Maynard; “Last Call”
1995 This is Boston, Not Austin, Vol. 1
Black Wolf; “Paperback Man”
1995 Performing Songwriter, Vol. 2
Performing Songwriter; “Last Call”
1995 Live at the Postcrypt
Prime-CD; “All Things Being the Same”
1995 Kerrville Folk Festival 1995 Highlights
Silverwolf; “Paperback Man”
1994 The Times They Are a Changin’: A Tribute to Bob Dylan
Sister Ruby; “All Along the Watchtower”
1994 Shelter: The Best of Contemporary Singer-Songwriters
Putamayo World Music; “Last at the Table”
1994 Follow That Road: Highlights of the Second Annual Martha’s Vineyard SingerSongwriters’ Retreat Held at the Wintertide Coffeehouse
Rounder; “King of 7th Avenue”
1993 Leak Magazine, Winter 1994
Leak; “Look at the Wind Blow”
1993 Old Vienna Tapes, Vol. 2
Fast Folk Musical Magazine; “Conversation With a Ghost”
1992 Legacy II: A Collection of Singer-Songwriters
Windham Hill Records; “Ashes to Dust”
1990 End Construction’s Resume Speed
End Construction Productions; “New Light on Your Halo”, Just the Jester Fool”,
“Friday Night” and “This Old Car”
Discography: Guest Appearance CDs
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2011
2008
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2000
Peyton Tochterman/A New World (Luna Sol Productions)
Antje Duvekot/Live From All Over the Place
Susan Cattaneo/Heaven to Heartache (Jersey Girl Music)
Robbie Schaefer/Strange and Lovely World
Flynn/The Answer’s Not Enough (Black Wolf Records)
Antje Duvekot/Big Dream Boulevard (Black Wolf Records)
Flynn/An American Wake (Black Wolf Records)
Kort & Beth McCumber/Until I Return (Somewhere To Go Music)
Joel Raphael/Woodeye (Inside Recordings)
Vance Gilbert/One to Fourteen (Louisiana Red Hot Records)
Carl Cacho/Spark (Back Holler Music)
Alastair Moock/A Life I Never Had (Bad Moock Rising Records)
Justin Brooks/Take to the Wind (Mt. Tom Productions)
Darryl Purpose/A Crooked Line (Tangible Music)
Kevin So/That Oriental Guy
Don Conoscenti/Paradox of Grace (Cogtone)
Lori McKenna/Pieces of Me (GUA Music)
Dave Nachmanoff/A Certain Distance
Adam Dorfman/The Difference (Psycho Poets Records)
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David Wilcox/What You Whispered (Vanguard)
Bernice Lewis/Religion and Release (Sanctuary Records)
Christopher Williams/The Silence in Between
Vance Gilbert/Live (Disismye)
John Wesley Harding/Dynablob 3 (WOW)
Darryl Purpose/Traveler’s Code (Tangible Music)
Rob Laurens/The Honey on the Mountain (Attic Light; also produced by Ellis Paul)
Carl Cacho/Blue Around the Edges
Buddy Mondlock/Poetic Justice (Major Bob Productions)
Peter Spink/All There Is (In the News Records)
Mark Erelli/Long Way From Heaven
Matthew’s Brother/Remember the Day
Don Conoscenti/Boxes of Bones (Cogtone, uncredited track)
Kevin McClusky/This Distant Light (Waterboat Music)
Jim Henry/Jacksonville (Signature Sounds)
Rob Lytle/Rob Lytle
Billy Pilgrim/Billy Pilgrim (Atlantic)
Vance Gilbert/Edgewise (Rounder)
Don Conoscenti/Beneath Your Moon (Cogtone)
Jon Svetkey/Yeah, Yeah, Yeah (End Construction)
Don Conoscenti/The Code (Cogtone)
Chris Chandler/As Seen On No TV (Flying Fish)
Bill Morrissey/Inside (Philo/Rounder)
Billy Pilgrim/Words Like Numbers (Sister Ruby Records; reissued by Honest Harry
Records in 1995)
1992 Jon Svetkey/This is Now
Published Works
2014 Hero in You by Ellis Paul (Albert Whitman Co.)
2003 Doctor Sax and the Great World Snake, a screenplay by Jack Kerouac, is recorded
on two audio CDs with Ellis Paul as the voice of Lousy.
2003 Deep Community: Adventures in the Modern Folk Underground by Scott Alarik
prominently features Ellis Paul (Black Wolf Press)
2002 Notes From the Road by Ellis Paul (Black Wolf Press)
2002 Letters to J.D. Salinger edited by Chris Kubica and Will Hochman includes an entry
written by Ellis Paul (University of Wisconsin Press)
Awards
2012
2009
2008
2004
2004
2002
Parents’ Choice Foundation Gold Medallion for Hero in You
14th Boston Music Award for Folk Act of the Year
Parents’ Choice Foundation Silver Medallion for Dragonfly Races.
13th Boston Music Award for Outstanding Male Singer-Songwriter
Recipient of the 2nd Annual Boston College Arts Council Alumni Award
12th Boston Music Award for Outstanding Singer-Songwriter Album for Sweet
Mistakes
2001 11th Boston Music Award for Outstanding Male Singer-Songwriter
2001
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1999
1999
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1997
1996
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1995
1995
1994
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1993
FolkWax E-Zine Artist of the Year
Boston Citysearch Editor’s Award for Best Local Songwriter
10th Boston Music Award for Outstanding Male Vocalist – Indie Label
9th Boston Music Award for Outstanding Singer/Songwriter for “Take Me Down”
8th Boston Music Award for Outstanding Acoustic Folk Album for Translucent Soul
7th Boston Music Award for Outstanding Contemporary Folk Act
SESAC Contemporary Folk Award for A Carnival of Voices
6th Boston Music Award for Rising Star
5th Boston Music Award for Outstanding Contemporary Folk Act
USA Today’s Best Bet for Stardom (July 12)
4th Boston Music Award for Folk/Acoustic Album of the Year for Stories
3rd Boston Music Award for Outstanding Local Male Vocalist
Voted one of the Most Wanted at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival
Kerrville Folk Festival Best New Folk Award
2nd Boston Music Award for Outstanding Song of the Year – Indie Label for
“Conversation With a Ghost”
1992 1st Boston Music Award for Outstanding New Folk/Acoustic Act
1991 Boston Acoustic Underground Award
Movies, Television, DVDs
2011 The Farrelly Brothers’ movie Hall Pass features eight instrumental tracks from Ellis
Paul’s The Day After Everything Changed.
2007 Guest appearance in Catching Salinger, a documentary film starring Frederic
Beigbeder and directed by Jean-Marie Perier.
2006 Guest appearance on the Woody Guthrie Coalition’s DVD Woody Sez: a Tribute to
Woody Guthrie (duet with The Burns Sisters on “God’s Promise” recorded July 13,
2005 at the Crystal Theater in Okemah, OK.)
2003 Ellis Paul’s 3000 Miles DVD released in February.
2002 The Nov. 5 episode of the TV series Ed features “If You Break Down”.
2001 The movie Shallow Hal starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Jack Black features “Sweet
Mistakes”.
2000 The Farrelly Brothers’ movie Me, Myself & Irene starring Renee Zellweger and Jim
Carrey features “The World Ain’t Slowing Down” as its theme song.
1999 MTV’s Real World features “Change,” “Deliver Me” and “Lay Your Wager Down”.
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Last updated 5-28-14