You walk into a bar, and there's this guy on a stool by the window, crouching over his guitar. And you just know he's going to try to cut through all that noise with something like "Boot Scootin' Boogie" or "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere," anything to grab the crowd's attention. But this one doesn't. Instead, with the softest of strums, he eases into a satin-smooth version of Don Williams' "Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good." Slowly the chatter at the bar trails off, and heads begin turning his way. Now he's got them.
The singer is Paul Pace, and this is the kind of vocal magic he works every time he performs. To top it all off, he knows country music like a librarian knows books. Two songs later, he's resurrecting Bobby Bare's "Tequila Sheila," a song so seldom heard these days that even Bare has probably forgotten it.
Although his was a minority opinion in high school, Pace says he never wavered in his love for country music. "Everybody was listening to AC/DC and Ozzy Osbourne, and I was saying, 'No, man, you ought to be listening to this George Jones guy and this George Strait guy.'" Pace planned to go to college and major in agriculture, but he changed his mind at the last minute. "Instead of studying Ag, I enrolled in a small college, Cumberland College in Williamsburg, Kentucky, and studied opera there for six years. "It was a good experience. As a vocal major, I learned alot about music. I used some of the techniques they taught me for opera to sing country music in bars on the weekends." By this point, Pace had become a formidable songwriter. To develop that talent and pursue a recording career, he relocated to Nashville in 1995. Since then, local gigs, songwriting sessions and an occasional show "back home" have kept him busy. As for his own musical direction, Pace's vision remains clear. "I love to perform and entertain. I've done it all from opera to bluegrass to rock. But I still get the biggest thrill out of a good country song."
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You walk into a bar, and there's this guy on a stool by the window, crouching over his guitar. And you just know he's going to try to cut through all that noise with something like "Boot Scootin' Boogie" or "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere," anything to grab the crowd's attention. But this one doesn't. Instead, with the softest of strums, he eases into a satin-smooth version of Don Williams' "Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good." Slowly the chatter at the bar trails off, and heads begin turning his way. Now he's got them.
The singer is Paul Pace, and this is the kind of vocal magic he works every time he performs. To top it all off, he knows country music like a librarian knows books. Two songs later, he's resurrecting Bobby Bare's "Tequila Sheila," a song so seldom heard these days that even Bare has probably forgotten it.
Although his was a minority opinion in high school, Pace says he never wavered in his love for country music. "Everybody was listening to AC/DC and Ozzy Osbourne, and I was saying, 'No, man, you ought to be listening to this George Jones guy and this George Strait guy.'" Pace planned to go to college and major in agriculture, but he changed his mind at the last minute. "Instead of studying Ag, I enrolled in a small college, Cumberland College in Williamsburg, Kentucky, and studied opera there for six years. "It was a good experience. As a vocal major, I learned alot about music. I used some of the techniques they taught me for opera to sing country music in bars on the weekends." By this point, Pace had become a formidable songwriter. To develop that talent and pursue a recording career, he relocated to Nashville in 1995. Since then, local gigs, songwriting sessions and an occasional show "back home" have kept him busy. As for his own musical direction, Pace's vision remains clear. "I love to perform and entertain. I've done it all from opera to bluegrass to rock. But I still get the biggest thrill out of a good country song."
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