Pull up to Levon Helm Studios on Plochmann Lane and you feel it before you get inside. This is a 250-capacity room in Woodstock, NY — a recording studio with a live stage, in a town that has been sacred ground for American music for decades. That history is baked into the walls, and it shows up in the energy of every show.
Thursday, August 6, Paul Cauthen fills the room.
About Paul Cauthen
The East Texas native known as “Big Velvet” has one of those voices that earns the nickname — a baritone Saving Country Music called “barrel-chested and billowy.” He grew up in Tyler, the grandson of a songwriter linked to Buddy Holly & the Crickets, and cut his teeth in the Americana duo Sons of Fathers before going solo in 2014. His debut solo record, My Gospel, landed at #23 on Rolling Stone‘s top 40 country records of 2016. Since then he has logged more than 442 million streams and shared stages with Margo Price, Orville Peck, and Cody Jinks.
This summer he is on the road behind Book of Paul, his fifth studio album (April 3, 2026). It is a record that came from hard years — a drug bust on his tour bus in 2023, a papillary thyroid cancer diagnosis in early 2025, and a first child expected later that year. Saving Country Music rated it 8/10 and called it the best album of his career: 13 tracks of country grit, gospel uplift, and swampy rock and roll anchored by that baritone. “Blue Denim & Black Gold,” “Cigarettes & Billy Graham,” and “Tossin’ Back Time” (featuring Jake Worthington) are among the highlights. His fall dates already include the Ryman Auditorium.
The Venue
Levon Helm Studios sits at 160 Plochmann Lane in Woodstock — a recording studio and live room in the heart of the Hudson Valley. The room holds 250. Gates open at 6:30 PM, doors at 7:30 PM, show runs 8:00–11:00 PM.
Tickets & Pricing
Tickets for An Evening with Paul Cauthen are available through Tixr. Two hundred fifty seats in a room this storied, with an artist on this kind of run. Don’t sit on it.