Paul Cauthen With Wilder Blue

Sun Nov 08, 2026        5:00pm Doors - All Ages

• Venue Website:

  https://barrelhousebrewing.com/music-and-events#amphitheater

• Artist Website:

  https://www.paulcauthenmusic.com/

• Support Website:

  https://www.thewilderblue.com/
  

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Whether he knows it or not, every man lives by a code. And for country provocateur Paul Cauthen, that code is diabolically simple. Always bet on yourself.

A singer-songwriter with a long, well-documented distaste for playing by anyone else’s rules, the East Texas native has spent the better part of two decades clawing his way through the country underground, embodying the independent spirit – and expressing it through a monolithic “Big Velvet” vocal. Fusing classic-country grit, gospel power, and a rhinestoned rock-and-roll edge, four previous albums proclaimed his singular style with a booming baritone and near-biblical swagger. But for his fifth LP, Book of Paul, Cauthen writes his code in permanent ink. 

“It’s just being who you are – unapologetically yourself – and that’s every one of my records,” Cauthen says. “Does it dance? Does it make you cry? Does it make you feel? As far as I’m concerned I’ve made it already. I can already do whatever I want musically. And when you get to this point you look back. I have built my whole career going against the grain, and that’s what this record is. The freaking trials and tribulations of Paul. It’s everything I wanted on an album.”

That hard-headed certainty has always made Cauthen stand out – and so has his stunning vocal, as rich and deep as crushed velvet. Neither one comes out of nowhere. Taught to sing by his grandfather in an East Texas Church of Christ, Cauthen first hit the scene with the roots duo Sons of Fathers in 2009, only to strike out on his own. A visionary from the start, his 2016 solo debut My Gospel unveiled a vulnerable, fire-and-brimstone songwriter with a brazen Texas attitude – craving deliverance, yet possessed by a “bird dog” instinct for theatrical rapture. 

Carrying on with the albums Room 41, Country Coming Down, and Black on Black, each new release had an enigmatic “it factor,” somewhere in the ether between Waylon Jennings, Elvis Presley, and Jerry Lee Lewis. Raucous live shows filled with steel-toed rhinestones and gothic roots rock brought favorites like “Cocaine Country Dancing” and “Fuck You Money” to life. And while touring the world, Cauthen collaborated alongside Margo Price, Orville Peck, Elle King, Midland, Cody Jinks, and Lana Del Rey, among others. Lately, Cauthen’s striking feature on Shaboozey’s “Last Of My Kind” has led to an RIAA-GOLD certification, and as tastemakers from Rolling Stone to The Austin Chronicle fell under his spell, 442 million global streams piled up.