Paul Braun

My name is Paul Braun, and I love making music. I grew up listening to my parents playing rock music from the 1970’s and 1980’s, and I could never get over the sound of the guitars. I drove my parents up the wall about buying me a guitar so I could learn to play like the guitarists I had been listening to. I was already playing baseball, and I imagine that they thought it was simply a phase that would be gone in a few weeks, so they told me I was doing enough as it was. Later that year we went on a cruise of the Hawaiian Islands, and there was a musician on the boat named Butch O’Sullivan. Every night I forced my dad to take me to hear him play, and from that moment on I knew that I wanted to be as great of a musician as he was. When we got back I convinced my parents to get me an acoustic guitar for Christmas, and I sat in our living room and attempted to play an instrument I had no clue about. We soon looked for a place to take lessons, and my grandmother took me once a week to the Peachtree Music Store in Stockbridge, Georgia (Which is vacant now, but still makes me smile when I pass it). I began taking bluegrass lessons (which I hated), and I quickly progressed from that to blues, rock, and jazz. I joined the worship band at my church, and I played there for six years under older musicians until I was experienced enough to lead the band myself. I played in several side bands that played and opened for bigger named bands around the Atlanta area. I later moved to Athens to start college at the University of Georgia, and I currently play for the Baptist Collegiate Ministry in their house and travel bands. I am also looking forward to starting my own personal band soon so I can play music that I have written.