Paul Cauthen closes The Book of Paul Tour with three consecutive Texas nights — Houston on the 19th, Austin on the 20th, Dallas on the 21st. You don’t close a five-month, 43-date tour in Texas by accident when you’re from Tyler. The Austin stop lands at Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater on Friday, November 20, and the room choice tells you where Cauthen sits right now: past the club ceiling, not yet at arena scale. At 2,500 capacity, it’s the right-sized bet — big enough to feel like a statement, small enough to demand a real crowd.
About Paul Cauthen
“Big Velvet” is what they’ve called him for a decade, and the nickname still earns it. Cauthen is an East Texas voice — deep baritone, raised on Church of Christ hymns and eventually sharpened by the years after Sons of Fathers dissolved and he went solo. The influences he names are the Texas canon: Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Waylon Jennings. He’s built a following without making the commercial compromises those names didn’t make either.
Book of Paul, his fifth studio album, dropped April 3, 2026. Saving Country Music rated it 8/10 and called it the best overall album of his career. The context for the writing is real: a drug bust in 2023, a papillary thyroid cancer diagnosis in early 2025, a first child announced before that year was out. The album still has swagger — “Texas Swagger” is exactly what it sounds like — but it also has what Cauthen calls honest lyrical content: less ostentatious than earlier records, more earned. Features include Jake Worthington on “Tossin’ Back Time” and Delaney Ramsdell on “Chain Smoking.”
He told Music Mayhem Magazine that Book of Paul feels like “a top of the rock moment” for him. Given a Ryman Auditorium date in September and a Mission Ballroom stop in October, the scale of this tour argues for taking him at his word.
About Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater
Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater sits at 801 Red River in Austin, one of the more recognizable addresses on the Texas club circuit. The outdoor amphitheater holds 2,500 and books differently from Stubb’s indoor room — wider sound, the kind of open sky that suits a barrel-chested baritone playing a Texas homecoming. Now a Live Nation venue, Stubb’s remains one of the better mid-tier amphitheater setups in the region for an act at Cauthen’s level. Doors at 7:00 PM.
Tickets
Tickets for Paul Cauthen at Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater are available now. The show is Friday, November 20, 2026, doors at 7:00 PM. Get tickets via Ticketmaster.