"Bittersweet Americana Rock"
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ABOUT PAULA:
"In a town where country music radio is stronger than ever, but where there's a sad lack of clubs trafficking in the live stuff, it's like flipping to the cool side of the pillow on a sweltering summer night to hear an artist such as Paula Sinclair." Don Campbell, The Oregonian, 2006Sinclair’s music career began at age 14, playing around the Kentucky area in a country duo back when there were no TV sets in bars and people came to hear live music to accompany their conversations. One of fourteen siblings rich in creative talents, it’s no wonder Sinclair is a multi-faceted musical artist.
Paula shares a common musical background with her contemporaries, but her approach to songs is unique. Yes, she performs original tunes and alt-country covers with exquisite talent. Yet when she braids music and poems into her own distinctive weave, Sinclair stands out as not only a remarkable singer/songwriter, but also as a rare and gifted musical interpreter of American poetry.
Demonstrating these considerable gifts in her performances and her albums, she rivets audiences with confident, fluid guitar-playing and vocals as brassy, sweet, and earthy as the soil on the Lexington, Kentucky farm where she grew up. A sultry alt country crooner, raw emotion spills out of her adeptly crafted original tunes with muscular power and tender grace.
After several years in the Southeast and Boston music scenes, Sinclair moved to Portland in 1998, where she initially did some solo work as well as fronted her own band. These days Sinclair performs as a solo act and also with her brand new band, The Pistols.