Hey everybody, welcome back to the Forward Podcast. I am your host Lance Armstrong. My guest this week is the Big Velvet, otherwise known as Popball, otherwise known as Paul Coffin. You know know when I think of country music I sort of break it down into two

two areas right one is sort of old school outlaw countries, so you're thinking

Willie Whelan, Merrill, Chris Christofferson, Johnny Cash, and then now you

sort of got more modern country, pop country, the Blake Shelton's of the world and the and the and the Jason Aldines and the like that and then you've got this whole new generation of young guys

just young outlaw throwbacks Chris Stapleton

uh... sturgele Simpson

uh... pauphin

uh... etc and so it was awesome having him Paul Cothon, etc.

And so it was awesome having him sit across the table from me

tell some great stories about his young career

and also play a couple of just amazing songs.

Ended up that next night going and seeing him down at Antones,

Chris Shifflet from the Foo Fighters,

another really cool Americana artist and podgaster opened up for him.

Killer night, but Paul, you're not gonna be disappointed.

I mean, he's, he is all personality so get ready for that one.

Before we get to Paul, a couple things.

There's a little housekeeping here.

But just announced that I'm going to run the Austin Marathon, not just run it, but I'm going to be

what they call the Charity Chaser. So the charity chaser is this is after everybody

starts and it takes a minute for a few minutes for everybody to get through the

start line they wait 10 minutes and then the Charity Chaser starts, which is me.

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