TEMECULA: Life in Temecula celebrated in song

Steven Klinshaw uses his life experiences as grist for his songs, tapping into the emotions of a breakup or an overheard conversation between a bickering husband and wife to craft country-western tunes with his band Paper Street.

Late last year, the 34-year-old U.S. Navy supply officer sat down to write and the inspiration was the city of Temecula: its warm summer nights, flying high overhead in one of the area's hot air balloons and hitting it big at the Pechanga Resort & Casino.

"I tried to fit everything in," he said during a phone interview.

The end result was a song called "True Love Temecula," a tune that Paper Street performed at a recent city event at The Promenade mall.

Paper Street scored an invitation to perform at the event, the Mayor's Beach Ball Block Party, after Klinshaw performed the song for city officials at the Civic Center.

Explaining the song's genesis, Klinshaw said he has grown to love the Temecula area after moving here three years ago and he plans to be here for the foreseeable future.

"We've put down roots," he said.

The home he bought abuts the backyard of his longtime friend's place, and they have modified their shared fence for a stairwell, a feature that allows the buddies and their children to pop back and forth between the properties.

"We call it the compound," he said, laughing. "We're talking about putting in a big pool and a lazy river around the whole complex."

Before moving to Temecula, Klinshaw, lived what he called a nomadic life, spending time in various cities and traveling to far-flung locales during his 17-years-and-counting career in the Navy.

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