Paul has been playing the fiddle since he was 11. He has placed in the top 5 in the Washington State Fiddle Contest, the Arkansas State Fiddle Championships, the Arkansas Masters Fiddle Contest and the Mississippi State Fiddle Contest and in the Gone to Texas Division of the Texas State Championship Fiddlers Frolics. He has won the Gambler's Draw Contest at the Arkansas Masters Fiddle Contest and is the winner of the 2023 Honeycreek Special Gambler’s Draw Contest. He toured with a Southern Gospel group, The Hawkins Family for 6 years, and was named the 2010 Gospel Music Artists Association Musician of the Year. He has played with the Interstate Thirty Bluegrass Band for 14 years, during which the band won the Arkansas State Bluegrass Band Contest, and was nominated Bluegrass Band of the Year in the Arkansas Country Music Awards. Paul also plays the guitar and mandolin, and has placed in the top five in various picking contests, and has won accompanist awards at various fiddle contests. Paul works as a maintenance electrician at Arauco MDf and teaches Electrical Apprenticeship Classes at ASU Three Rivers. He is the Worship Leader at Wildwood Tabernacle in Royal, Arkansas. He resides in Hot Springs, Arkansas with his wife, Georgeta, and 4 children.