Member Since: 1/19/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/paulaheld
Band Members: Constantly evolving, but some I've had the pleasure to work with: Steve Brooks, guitar, mandolin, harp / Jeffrye Glenn Tveraas, guitar / Mary Cutrufello, guitar / Fletcher Clark, guitar / Jimmy Joe Natoli, guitar / John William Davis, guitar / Seymour Guenther, bass / Charlie Irwin, bass / Richard Bowden, violin / Sofia Grey, harmony vocalsCurrently also appear as Paula Held and the Broken ArtZ (myself, Steve Brooks, Seymour Guenther); and as part of the duo, Brooks & Held (Steve Brooks, Paula Held).
Influences: Vocal influences: Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Bonnie Raitt, Etta James, Mary Chapin Carpenter and many others.Early songwriter influences: Joni, Dylan, James Taylor, John Prine and many of the jazz greats: Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Rodgers and Hart. And my father, Art Custer. More recently: Cindy Walker, Michael Peter Smith, John Davis and many, many great, local established and semi-anonymous songwriters in and around Austin, as well as all the great Texas writers I'm starting to listen to.
Sounds Like: Still evolving ...
Record Label: None
Type of Label: None