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Paula Frazer

About Me

I grew up in Sautee Nacoochee Georgia and Eureka Springs Arkansas. My father was a minister and my mother taught piano and played organ in the church so I grew up singing in the church choir and playing piano and guitar. I was playing guitar and singing in various bands in Arkansas and then went to San Francisco when I was 18 to visit a friend and ended up staying and playing in bands like Frightwig, Pleasant Day, Trial, Faith No More (guest guitarist), Virginia Dare, Cloiter etc.... I went back to Arkansas for a while and then came back to San Francisco and started Tarnation in 1991. First I played solo under Tarnation for the first few years with friends sitting in with me sometimes. In 1994 Nuf Sed put out the first Tarnation record "I'll Give You Something to Cry About". 4AD picked up the record and put additional songs on it and called it "Gentle Creatures" released in 1995. 4AD and Reprise put out my next record in 1997 called "Mirador". Then I dropped the Tarnation name for a while and put out 3 records on Birdman Records under my name - "Indoor Universe", "A Place Where I Know" and "Leave The Sad Things Behind". I have a new record coming out under the name - Paula Frazer and Tarnation - in March 2007 on Birdman Records

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Member Since: 8/30/2005
Band Website: paulafrazer.com
Influences: --- West Coast Pop Art Experiment, Billie Holiday, Carpenters, Scott Walker, Al Green, Leonard Cohen, Cat Stevens, Gris Gris, The Moore Brothers, Gene Clark, Michael Thiereau, Ryan Donnelly, Electric Prunes, Sean Smith, Left Banke, Winter Flowers, Five Day Week Straw People, Bright Black, Ennio Morricone, Zombies, Peanut Butter Conspiracy, Yma Sumac, Snake Flower II, Neil Young, Tim Hardin, Moody Blues, Mabel John, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Dusty Springfield, Ultimate Spinach, Sweetbriar, The Kinks, Emitt Rhodes, Poppy Family, The Byrds, The Mamas and the Papas, Tammy Wynette, Eric Shea, Master Moth, Badfinger, Django, Buffalo Springfield, Elizabeth Cotton, The Gun Club, Chinatown Bakeries, The Hollies, Stanley Brothers, Edith Piaf, The Pretty Things, Elisa Randazzo, Nancy Sinatra, Howard Tate, The Cure, Small Faces, Bill Withers, Wimple Wench, Sandycoates, Marrianne Faithful, Syd Barrett, Time Flys, Terry Reid, Lulu, Tim Bluhm, Vashti Bunyan, Gordon Lightfoot, Canned Heat, Spirit, Nazz, Scott Joplin, Michael Hurley, Desmond Dekker, Lee Hazelwood, Chrissie Hindes, Greg Ashley, Ronnie Lane, Gene Pitney, Smokey Robinson, Echo and the Bunnymen, Cleoma Falcon, Etta James, Augustus Pablo, Glen Campbell, George Jones, Nick Drake, The United States of America, CS&N etc.....
Record Label: Birdman Records
Type of Label: Indie

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BIO

I grew up in Sautee Nacoochee Georgia and Eureka Springs Arkansas. My father was a minister and my mother taught piano and played organ in the church so I grew up singing in the church choir and playi...
Posted by Paula Frazer on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:17:00 PST

Discography

- RECORDINGS - -- 2007 - Paula Frazer and tarnation - Now it's Time (Birdman Records), 2005 - Paula Frazer - Leave the Sad Things Behind (Birdman Records) songwriter, singer, guitars -- 2005 - Friends...
Posted by Paula Frazer on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:01:00 PST