Singer and songwriter T. Mitchell Bell pursues simplicity — the kind found in a blues harmonica line or a Hank Williams lyric.
But it took a long time to get back to simple – decades, in fact, for the small-town Southwestern Pennsylvania kid who fronted a bar band at 15 to become the artist who in 2009 released The Ballad of Philo Paul, a rootsy 11-song debut album.
Bell's path might have seemed obvious. His earliest memories include watching his father's band rehearse in the basement. But life got complicated fast: When Bell was 7, his father...
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