Paul Siebel

Regardless of the undeniably top quality of his tunes — which were included in famous brands Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt, Ian Matthews, and Waylon Jennings — Paul Siebel is definately not being truly a household name. Within folk circles and among songwriters, nevertheless, his two albums — 1969’s Woodsmoke and Oranges and 1971’s Jack-Knife Gypsy — are famous. Siebel was created in 1937 in Buffalo, NY. Influenced by Hank Williams and Hank Snow, he trained himself to try out guitar during his teenagers. By the first ’60s, after providing in the armed service, he started playing folk night clubs, eventually shifting to Greenwich Town, where he discovered support in the coffeehouse circuit. In 1969, a selections of demos he made out of David Bromberg captured the eye of Elektra Information owner Jac Holzman, who provided a him a moderate recording offer (apparently he was just given enough cash to financing four three-hour saving classes). The producing recording, Woodsmoke and Oranges, was fulfilled with critical compliment from the press, including Rolling Rock magazine. Regardless of the interest, the album and its own similarly praised follow-up, Jack-Knife Gypsy, offered disappointingly little. Apart from a live recording released in 1981, Live at McCabes, Siebel hasn’t released an recording since.