Paul Armfield

Mellow, warm, wistful, and smoky, Paul Armfield is a double bass player, singer, and songwriter who plays a comfortable kind of folk noir or chamber pop with his band the Four Good Reasons. Born in Birmingham, U.K., but raised on the Isle of Wight, Armfield was drawn to the bass during punk's heyday. The cool stances of the Clash's Paul Simonon and the Stranglers' Jean Jacques Burnel were the main reasons for picking the instrument, but soon Armfield became interested in genres much quieter. Soon he was to join various bands playing jazz, blues, gypsy music, bluegrass, folk, a...