Paul Cauthen w/ Leon Majcen in Portland

Paul Mark Cauthen is an American singer-songwriter from East Texas. He began his music career in an Americana/indie folk rock duo called Sons of Fathers, before turning solo. Cauthen was born in Dallas, Texas, and 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 has said the church he grew up in did not allow instruments, so the focus was on a cappella singing of what he called "heavenly highway hymns, the old hymnals". His grandfather Jim Paul Cauthen gave him a guitar and was a songwriter himself, and also taught Cauthen and his two sisters how to sing harmonies at a very young age; his grandmother taught him piano.

In 2016 Cauthen released his first solo record, My Gospel, on Lightning Rod Records. In 2019 he released his second solo record, Room 41.