Music like Sons of Fathers

Paul Mark Cauthen (born in 1986) is a singer-songwriter from East Texas. He started his music career in an Americana/indie folk rock duo called Sons of Fathers, before turning solo. He has released two albums and an EP as a solo artist, the most recent being Room 41 released in September 2019.

Cauthen was born in Tyler in East Texas.

Cauthen grew up in a religious household. His father was a song leader in the conservative Christian Church of Christ, and his father's twin brother was the preacher there. Cauthen's father and uncle sang as a musical duo in church. Cauthen has said that the church he grew up in did not allow instruments, so the focus was on a capella singing of what he called "heavenly highway hymns, the old hymnals", but that if he was active in the church, he would be a fifth-generation song leader/preacher.