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Before Graham Lindsey could even drive he was already playing in punk rock bands around his hometown of Madison, Wisconsin, most notably "the world's youngest punk band" Old Skull. A little older and arguably wiser he holed up between a rural Nebraska farmhouse and a cabin in the woods of Wisconsin and woodshedded out the material for what would be his first solo album Famous Anonymous Wilderness, a debut that suddenly earned him widespread critical acclaim making it onto dozens of top ten lists including two Rolling Stone Critic's Choice lists as well as being featured on a special edition of NPR's All Songs Considered. Released on Catamount Records in 2003, it was heralded by alternative-country bible of the day No Depression as “the most audacious roots songwriter’s debut since Gillian Welch’s Revival,” received Honorable Mention for Best Debut/Artist and was chosen as one of the Top Forty Albums of the year by Harp Magazine.

Lindsey’s songs soon began showing up in many promising spots, among them Uncut Magazine's cover-mount CD Tracks Inspired by Bob Dylan –Volume 2 alongside Richie Havens, John Prine, Steve Goodman, Billy Bragg and others; the opening credit sequence of the feature film Dunsmore; and Bloodshot Records’ 10-year anniversary compilation For A Decade of Sin: 11 Years of Bloodshot Records in which his inclusion was called “one of the most haunting down-home performances” on the 2-disc set.

Sophomore effort Hell Under The Skullbones immediately earned the Number One spot on the Euro Americana Chart overseas and celebrated a string of similar successes in the U.S. since its worldwide release on Spacebar Recordings and Sonic Rendezvous in 2006. The ten song album is what Uncut Magazine called “fiery folk-blues-twang, augmented by notable cameos from Van Dyke Parks, pedal steel whiz Greg Leisz and ex-Captain Beefheart guitarist Moris Tepper.” Also featured are upright bassist Larry Taylor (Tom Waits) and Nick Vincent (Frank Black and the Catholics) among others.

Graham Lindsey currently lives in his cabin home in the woods of Wisconsin with his wife and dogs. While perhaps not the most predictable of paths for most thirty-something troubadours, Lindsey's unlikely journey led him most recently to the mountains of Montana where over several years he spaded out the material for his third full-length We Are All Alone In This Together as well as it's shorter counterpart The Mine EP both recorded by producer Steve Deutsch (Van Dyke Parks, Linda Thompson) and released on Spacebar Recordings. Hailed by Ctrl.Alt.Counrty as "one of the first truly great albums of 2009" the album weaves Lindsey's signature dark backcountry imagery and poignant lyricism, or what the Chicago Sun Times has called his “road map of the human condition,” together with roots based acoustic-primitive song crafting to unfold the latest chapter of his seldom sunny, often fiery, and always unapologetic bear-trap glimpse on the world.

Most recently while not writing and recording Graham has been spending time sitting in as a drummer, guitarist, and banjoist with Slackeye Slim and Them Dead Oreslingers and is helping co-write some of the new album El Santo Grial: La Pistola Piadosa due out late 2009. Graham has also helped back up The Perreze Farm on their debut EP Songs For The Birds to be released Summer of 2009. Additionally, a handful of Graham's previously released songs are also featured in the independent feature film Fairview St. written and directed by Michael McCallum released January, 2009 on DVD from Rebel Pictures.

Graham Lindsey has performed as official tour support for Wayne "The Train" Hancock, and has shared bills with or opened for acts: Iron And Wine, Lou Barlow, Robbie Fulks, The Hackensaw Boys, Scott H. Biram, .357 Stringband, Ben Weaver, Jesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter, and J.B. Beverly and The Wayward Drifters to name a few. He has also shared stages with Dave Heumann (Palace Brothers), David Bergander (Celebration), and members of .357 Stringband.

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