Paul Wilborn’s Words & Music

Paul Wilborn's Words and Music is a blend of songs by his four-piece group, Front Porch Picnic, and a complete short story read by the film actor, Eugenie Bondurant.

The story is drawn from Paul’s book, Cigar City: Tales From A 1980s Creative Ghetto, a collection of linked short stories about the young artists, writers, poets, musicians and actors who inhabited Tampa’s Ybor City in the 1980s. Drawn by urban authenticity and cheap rents, they created a surreal, chaotic, arts scene set against the backdrop of the empty cigar factories and shotgun shacks of Tampa’s immigrant past. The Ybor scene drew international artists like James Rosenquist and mirrored what was happening in New York’s East Village.