Paul Rimple, Tbilisi CB’er

Paul Rimple is a northern California native who gave up a cooking career to move to Chicago to front his own blues band. He spent much of the 1990s in Krakow Poland before moving in 2002 to Tbilisi, Georgia, where he works as a freelance journalist and performs with his band, The Natural Born Lovers. A former columnist at The Moscow Times, he contributes regularly to Eurasianet.org and Deutsche Welle and has written for the BBC, Foreign Policy, The Christian Science Monitor and Roads and Kingdoms, among others. His only regret is there are no Mexican restaurants in Tbilisi.