MP3 Paul Sachs - These Quiet Streets

Urban folk songs in the tradition of Harry Chapin and Springsteen. Songs about love, arson and growing up in Manhattan. One guitar and voice that create an intimate experience that is at times raw, funny and sad.

11 MP3 Songs
FOLK: Power-folk, FOLK: Modern Folk



Details:
âGrowing up on the Lower East Side of New York will either get a man killed or make him a survivor. Paul Sachs chose to become the latter. ...If the Greenwich Village folk scene ever kicks back into high gear as in the 60s, weâll all be better served if Paul Sachs joins in and shares his tales with us. This is my request that he do just that.â

Derek Blackmon of Indie-Music.com (Jun 2, 2006)

"His metaphors are so organically built, so subtly derived from the mis-en-scene of the song as to catch the listener unaware. One finds while distracted by the simple pleasures of a finger picked acoustic guitar and Paul's unshaven unapologetic vocal that the vast and crucial beauty of the song has crept in the back door. It is at its most emotional a buoyant affirmation of the joy and sorrow bled from a life well lived and at its most intellectual a lesson in how to write a song."

Joe Forte of HomeGrownRadioNJ.com

Paul Sachs was born and raised on the Lower East Side of New York City and that's where he draws most of his material. Sachs survived a tough life and lived to tell the tale through songs. Growing up he discovered such artists as Harry Chapin, Springsteen, and of course Bob Dylan, which pushed him into the folk music circles of the city. His songs soon caught the attention of Jack Hardy and other area performers, and he was featured in Fast Folk Musical Magazine. One of his songs was eventually selected for inclusion in the Smithsonian Fast Folk collection. Sachs still lives on the Lower East Side, performing in various venues around the city. He has recorded two independent albums, both featuring often raw and seeringly personal songs of life and love on the mean streets.His fingerstyle guitar work and powerful voice combine to create mesmerizing vignettes of the city that has been the backdrop of his life.


These Quiet Streets is a handmade production and a song cycle that begins and ends about the same sidewalks.