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About Me

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I started playing violin when I was a child, then switched to guitar my senior year of high school. Songwriting came along with the guitar, and I've never had something in my life that felt as natural. I've had a handful of bands over the years -- Stone Soup, Dead Pressed Flowers, Everybody Wins -- but my solo stuff always seemed to get the most attention, so here we go with a newly produced album of my solo material...."Boy Meets Girl," I'd say, is the proper follow-up to 1999's "Glutton's Dozen." As such, it treats the two LP and three EP releases since then as demos, culling a few tracks from that time along with a bunch of newer songs from the last few years. Dana Cannone produced this 12-track collection, which features the talents of Jason Miller (Rusted Root), Justin Brown (The Crawlin' Low Band, The New Fiction), Ford Thurston (Vibro Kings, Too Tall Jones), Michael Bellar (Amos Lee, the As/Is Ensemble), ZÃ© Luis (Bebel Gilberto), Rob James (The Clarks) and many others.... We're very excited about this album!Click at the top of the page to pre-order "Boy Meets Girl!" The link below takes you to a PayPal form -- there's also a link from there to pay by any major credit card if you don't have a PayPal account. Thanks!Paul

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Member Since: 5/22/2005
Band Website: paultab.com
Band Members: Paul Tabachneck
Influences: Elvis Costello, Freedy Johnston, Jellyfish, Cake, Jonatha Brooke, Ben Folds Five, Patty Griffin, Jason Falkner, self, David Wilcox
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Album Preview 12: "Tossing and Turning"

Tossing and Turning is the oldest song on this album, and the only one that carries over from "Glutton’s Dozen." It’s one that I’ve never even remotely wanted to abandon, becau...
Posted by Paul Tabachneck on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 09:35:00 PST

Album Preview 11: "Novice"

Probably the coolest thing about Novice is that the second verse was written in a half-hour, in the WQED-13 green room, while I was waiting to do my live appearance on On-Q. Being the idiot I am...
Posted by Paul Tabachneck on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:28:00 PST

Album Preview 10: "Up For Hire"

Up For Hire was inspired by a one-night encounter with someone who had broken up with me a while before the event.I remember it pretty well, despite everything -- starting out very stoic, then easing ...
Posted by Paul Tabachneck on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:44:00 PST

Album Preview 9: "Empire"

Empire came from two places -- first, that someone I was falling in love with found the one way she could hurt me most, and did it, and second, that I worked at Comcast with a guy named Tony Brown.One...
Posted by Paul Tabachneck on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:50:00 PST

Album Preview 8: "If We Can’t Have Love"

Ah, If We Can't Have Love. I love this freaking song.OK, so IWCHL and Sad Songs were written about the same girl, and while the current technology of MySpace is such that you don't totally get t...
Posted by Paul Tabachneck on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 05:14:00 PST

Album Preview 7: "It Hurts"

OK, this one.... Really explains itself, and I hate talking about it, so I'll talk about the mechanics of the song a little instead, which will hopefully entertain those of you who have been looking f...
Posted by Paul Tabachneck on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:24:00 PST

Album Preview 6: "Foxhole"

We've reached the halfway point of the preview! Ladies and gentlemen, I present: Foxhole.Another all-star lineup graces this song: Rob James on lead guitar, Jason and Michael on drums and keys, ...
Posted by Paul Tabachneck on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:22:00 PST

Glutton’s Dozen now available!

I've gotten a bunch of requests for my 1999 album, Glutton's Dozen -- you know, the one with the girl on the cover, with the donuts? Well, I'm pretty much out of the hard copies, and I'm not sur...
Posted by Paul Tabachneck on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:59:00 PST

Album preview 5: "Inaccessible"

Despite my general ebullience, I have a history of being shy around women that I'm infatuated with. One of these crushes, Rachel, used to go to Friday Nite Improvs every week. I knew not T...
Posted by Paul Tabachneck on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:15:00 PST

Album Preview 4: "I Only Have Eyes For You"

The year was 2000. I was hosting a singer-songwriter night at Club Cafe on Tuesday nights, so I was there pretty constantly. One of the acts I had come to make sure I was there for was Jen...
Posted by Paul Tabachneck on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:27:00 PST