Is Paul Cauthen Country’s Reformed Rebel?

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🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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You’ve never met a mother quite like Paul Cauthen. The outrageous Texas country singer remains proudly defiant on his new album The Book of Paul, which he says is about “the freaking trials and tribulations of Paul.” In a new episode of Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now podcast, the man known as “Big Velvet” tells us exactly what those tribulations are. He also talks about writing songs for Beyoncé, explains a lyric that dissed Kenny Chesney, and reveals where his alter-ego “Big Velvet” ends and Paul Cauthen begins. It’s a wild ride with one of country music’s most complex figures. Country is Here… Nashville is Now. Check out our Hear Now playlist on Spotify, updated weekly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Check one, two.
0:03.8	All right.
0:05.0	Rolling it.
0:07.0	Hey, everybody, it's Rolling Stones Nashville Now.
0:10.0	We are coming to you from the Nashville Now cabin.
0:13.0	I'm your host, Senior Music Editor, Joseph Hudak.
0:16.0	Yeah, hey, thanks for being here.
0:18.0	We have a very cool episode with Big Velvet himself, a man named Paul Coffin.
0:25.8	Texas singer-songwriter, real rabble rouser. He likes to start shit. He's got songs like country as fuck, cocaine country dancing, fuck you money. Huh? What do you think of that?
0:38.2	And his new album is called Book of Paul.
0:40.3	We're going to talk all about that and about his kind of chilling out a little bit.
0:45.5	You know, he's a dad now, going to be a dad.
0:48.3	His big velvet kind of chill velvet these days.
0:50.9	We'll find out.
0:51.6	Chill velvet.
0:52.2	Chill velvet.
0:53.5	But before that, it is a huge week in country
0:57.4	music album releases radar environment. Yeah, there's a big record out this Friday. It is Ella Langley's
1:07.1	follow-up to her album, Hungover. This is Dandelime. Man, produced in part by Miranda Lambert.
1:15.7	Of course, it has her massive song, Chosen, Texas, a multi-week number one, not only on the country
1:22.9	charts, but on the all-genre Hot 100 as well.
1:28.3	Massive. Cannot say enough about the feat of having a country song by a woman in country music,
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