The first thing you notice when you see Paulus Bunion perform is the links of london sale attached to his right shoe. After moving to Memphis to go to graduate school at Memphis College of Art, Paulus began collaborating on some songs with Natalie Hoffman from Bake Sale.The first thing you notice when you see Paulus Bunion perform is the tambourine attached to his right shoe. He's shaking it while he's playing the bass drum with his left foot, the guitar with his hands and, when he's not singing, a harmonica with his mouth. His real name is Alexander Paulus. His friend, photographer Tam Tran, came up with his stage name. "I have a beard and she thought I looked like a lumberjack," said Paulus, 30. "She was like regular valentine's Day rings and I said, 'Why don't I call it 'Bunion' like the foot problem because I play instruments with my feet?'" Paulus uses his real name as an art professor at Memphis College of Art and Southwest Community College. A native of Perryville, Mo., Paulus grew up drawing. He got his bachelor of fine arts in painting at Southeast Missouri State University. After he graduated, he worked in frame shops in St. Louis for a couple of years. He played guitar before he moved to St. Louis, but he got serious after he got a four-track recorder for Christmas and wrote and recorded his first song, "I Got a Woman," a "slide blues riff kind of song." He Links of London Classic Smiley Charm up with his tambourine shoe, which he calls "The Tambyshoe," after buying a wooden tambourine at an antique shop. He'd stomp on it while playing his guitar. One time the tambourine bounced up and looped around his shoe. "I thought, 'Why don't I tape this to my shoe?' It was like one of those deck shoes that they sell at Wal-Mart for like seven bucks." Paulus had two tambourines fastened to his size 91/2 shoe at one point, but one of the tambourines eventually broke. While he's shaking his Tambyshoe, Paulus' left foot is busy playing the bass kick drum. "Normally people play bass with their right foot, but Links of London Reindeer Charm I had all those tambourines attached to my right shoe, I didn't want to have to re-do that. So, now I play the bass with my left foot. It's kind of backwards." The only thing Paulus wears on his left foot is a sock. "I try playing with shoes, but for some reason my foot ends up going too high up on the foot pedal. So, I can feel it better without any shoes on."
Commentaires