John Paul White can’t keep his music to himself

“To be honest, there’s probably a lot of people who would see my name and say, ‘Who is that? That sounds familiar,’” says singer/songwriter John Paul White, aware that his former fame as one-half of the Grammy-winning duo The Civil Wars still dwarfs his solo career. White is currently touring with his first solo album in close to a decade, Beulah, released in August 2016. But he doesn’t seem to mind when venues and publicists bill him as “John Paul White (formerly of The Civil Wars),” say, for example, at The Bluebird Theater in Denver where he’s performing Jan. 19.

“Anytime that happens, the venue has taken it upon themselves. We don’t try and use that as a building block,” he says. “But it is who I am and who I was, and I’m proud of that. So I get why they do it.”

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