like Shawn Colvin, Suzanne Vega and you know, folks you pass on the street up a vision of ourselves and those we John Gorka by creating the Songwriters and stories you see in the daily news. know. We are the judge for the drunk Exchange in the 1980’s. He just passed Paul takes the one dimensional image on driver living with wheel chair memories away this year and that was a great loss. the screen and breathes the reality of life as he looks at the damage behind in I met him in 1995 at the Fast Folk Café. LQWR LWV OXQJV FRORULQJ DQG GH¿QLQJ WKH “Rear View Mirror” and we turn the wheel In the Songwriters Exchange, you write a stories so that you can not only see but of judgment on the driver using whatever song a week and bring them in to a group feel. Wishes disappear like foggy ground means necessary to survive in “Dirty RIVRQJZULWHUVWRJHWFULWLTXHG,FRXOGQ¶W cover as the light of another day dawns Trucks”. Paul Sachs commit to what Jack would want out of on album opener “Poor Man’s Out”. The D ZULWHU ZKHQ ZH ¿UVW PHW EXW , FDPH saga of modern life in America continues America in December 2011 faces around seriously in 2006 and 2007. throughout the album as “When the challenges that affect our personal lives Writing songs like that helped me remain River Didn’t Flow” calls good folks out to as much as those around us. These are more focused for ‘Oil Town’. I didn’t want hit them below their bible belts, “Great times when strength is gained more from to write about myself any more. I took my Gatsby Days” looks at a photo album community and shared experiences than own losses and struggles and applied pages turning from good times into bad from reliefs, cures or hole-plugging. The them to the characters in the songs. The and the title track gazes on the results characters on ‘Oil Town’ are blurred lines song “High and Low” on ‘Oil Town’, I have of environmental damage to our oceans. where you can see a little bit of Paul been to gravesites and mourned loss so Times are as tight for love as for the Sachs and maybe something of yourself. I could understand what the character economy and Paul’s pen sketches the was going through. I can identify with the different shapes of a heart. There are end truck driver who has to make some tough lessons to be learned such as how to put decisions in “Dirty Trucks”, I have gotten on a good front for loss (“I Forget About LQWR ¿QDQFLDO GLI¿FXOWLHV and done things that I am not proud of. I am telling VWRULHV IURP D ¿UVW SHUVRQ point of view. My albums have themes and when I had a batch of songs WKDW ¿W WRJHWKHU , ZHQW LQ the make the album. ‘The Refuge’ had a thread of sadness and loss around it. In ‘Oil Town’, all the towns in America are going through the same thing, the same experiences and challenges. The word limbo appears in the songs on ‘Oil Town’ and that is where I feel we are right now.

‘Oil Town’ is the latest release from Paul Sachs. The branding established on his earlier works grows with an artist who has gained an understanding of the recording process and focused his natural abilities for song craft. It is easy to stamp +HU (YHU\GD\´  WKH ZD\V WR VTXHH]H Springsteen on the songs of Paul Sachs the most out of emotion (“What Passes with a demographic lean of the characters for Love”) and how to two step through and their environment so similar. The link the waiting line at the court house between the two artists is clearer on the while dancing at “City Weddings”. The matching leaps forward their early output power of Paul Sachs vocals delivers a experienced. The growth spurt witnessed message on a mission supported by all by‘Greetings From Asbury Park’ and ‘The the musical paths open to contemporary Wild, The Innocent and The E Street folk musicians. The overall feel on ‘Oil 6KXIÀH¶ PLUURUV WKH SDWKV RI 3DXO¶V ¿UVW Town’ is acoustic but don’t assume that album efforts. While ‘Oil Town’ is not the translates to gentle sways and peaceful rock behemoth of ‘Born to Run’, it shares reverie. There is a gale force that clears a love of red meat and is an album with the air. It challenges the guilty and gives the same guts and backbone. ‘Oil Town’ the innocent an appreciation for what LVDUHFRUGRIRXUWLPHV¿OOHGZLWKSHRSOH they have on the plus side as Paul holds 56 57