Ellis Paul

Ellis Paul is an American singersongwriter and folk musician. Born in Aroostook County, Maine, Paul is a key figure in what has become known as the Boston school of songwriting, a literate, provocative and urbanely romantic folkpop style that helped ignite the folk revival of the 1990s. His pop music songs have appeared in movies and on television, bridging the gap between the modern folk sound and the populist traditions of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger.

Ellis Paul was born in Fort Kent, Maine, a small, rural potatofarming town near the Canadian border. Pauls family had strong connections to the potato industry his father, Ed Plissey, was Executive Director of the Maine Potato Commission and his grandfather owned a 140acre potato farm. Schools in the area closed for three weeks each year so that school children could help with the potato harvest. Paul spent many hours working on his grandfathers farm. Pauls mother, the former Marilyn Bonney of Buckfield, Maine, is a University of Maine graduate and was an extension agent for northern Aroostook County. She and her husband often worked together on special projects for the service. In the 1960s, Mrs. Plissey produced her own television show The Aroostook Homemaker which aired every third week on Presque Isle television station WAGMTV.

Source: Wikipedia