An Evening with Paula Cole

Singer/songwriter Paula Cole’s father was a teacher who played bass in a polka band called Johnny Prytko and the Connecticut Hi-Tones. He brought home Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash records and Cole learned to sing “Delta Dawn” as a child. By the time she got to the Berklee College of Music, she had decided she wanted to be a jazz singer. “I loved jazz, but I ran into inner psychological walls,” she said. “I felt some ‘imposter syndrome’ being a wh...