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Caitlin Krisko & The Broadcast, led by Detroit native Caitlin Krisko, blend soulful blues, rock and roll, and emotionally charged songwriting into a bold take on modern roots rock. Rolling Stone called Krisko “one of the best kept vocal secrets of the southeast.”
Independently, the band has surpassed one million streams and released two self-produced EPs, landing singles on coveted Spotify editorial playlists including “Blue Ballads” and “Modern Blues Rock.” On the road, they’ve shared stages with Marcus King, Blackberry Smoke, Tedeschi Trucks Band, and Greta Van Fleet, while also appearing at major festivals across the US and UK. In 2026, the band was nominated for Best International Artist at the UK Blues Awards, leading towards a busy year of touring internationally and releasing new music.
Paul McDonald grew up in Huntsville, Alabama, which is a strange and specific kind of place. A city built equally on NASA rocket science and old Southern gospel, where the sacred and the technical exist in the same zip code without much explanation. Something about that tension stuck. He was born in Auburn, raised in Huntsville, and by fifteen his dad had put a guitar in his hands. He never really put it down.
He taught himself to play by writing his own songs, which tells you something. Not learning covers, not running scales. Writing. By sixteen he was playing local shows. At Auburn University he sang in the gospel choir, touring small COMMUNITY churches across the Southeast, learning as he puts it “how to tune in with something higher and sing from the soul.” He was also two classes away from a Biomedical Sciences degree when the music finally made the decision for him.
What followed was a full education in the unglamorous, deeply necessary work of being a musician. Hightide Blues. The Grand Magnolias. A run on American Idol in 2011 that introduced his voice to a national audience, raspy and immediately recognizable, a little Rod Stewart, a little Petty, entirely his own. Then Nashville, the long years, music row, the solo records, an album scrapped, another scrapped, the One Big Love Festival, more miles than he can count. McDonald is not a man who has done one thing. He has done everything, repeatedly, on his own terms.
