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Biography

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's unlikely journey has led him most recently to the mountains of Montana where he lives with his wife and dogs. Here 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.

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Graham performs Bascom Lamar Lunsford's "Dry Bones".


Discography

DISCOGRAPHY
WE ARE ALL ALONE IN THIS TOGETHER (2008)
THE MINE EP (2008)
HELL UNDER THE SKULLBONES (2006)
FAMOUS ANONYMOUS WILDERNESS (2003)

APPEARS ON
Y'ALL MOTHERFUCKERS NEED JUSTICE: Free Uriah & Quentin Benefit Compilation (2010)
THE PERREZE FARM Songs For The Birds EP (2009)
FAIRVIEW ST. Soundtrack (2009)
KVCU 1190 AM 10th ANNIVERSARY CD Live Compilation (2008)
FOR A DECADE OF SIN: 11 YEARS OF BLOODSHOT RECORDS (2006)
UNCUT MAGAZINE'S TRACKS INSPIRED BY BOB DYLAN (2004)
POP CULTURE PRESS CD Sampler (2004)
HIT THE HAY VOL. 2 (2004)

SONGS IN FILM
FAIRVIEW ST. (2009)
DUNSMORE (2003)

DISTRIBUTION
BURNSIDE DISTRIBUTION (U.S.)
www.bdcdistribution.com
SONIC RENDEZVOUS (Europe)
www.sonicrendezvous.com

Reviews



"The Wisconsin native's minimalist soul searching tries to reconcile his best intentions with an unforgiving world. Thankfully love and acceptance still feature big; if they didn't he'd surely be dead by now."
-Q MAGAZINE

"Hick folk heaven from Montana. Scarifying songs... by turns desolate, angry and aching."
-UNCUT MAGAZINE

"Well-traveled folk that's both hick and haunting. There's something strange in the water, and Lindsey's drunk it up."
-ROLLINGSTONE.COM

“A fine, uncompromising singer-writer…”
-MOJO MAGAZINE



"Excellent… dark Americana, informed by his travels around the country."
-THE ONION

"Angry, literate singer-songwriter, who lives in the Wisconsin woods..."
-CHICAGO SUN TIMES

“Lindsey’s a talented wordsmith…”
-HARP MAGAZINE

“Lindsey’s lyrical gifts come tumbling down in a torrent of scathing snarls and aching croons. Lindsey’s a throwback to the ramblin’ folk singers of old.”
-MAXIM.COM



"The most audacious roots songwriter's debut since Gillian Welch's Revival..."
-NO DEPRESSION MAGAZINE

"He sings like he's been sleeping in a roadside ditch for years -and enjoys it."
-CHICAGO READER

"His phrasing embodies his stream of lyrics gives the illusion he is not performing the song, he is the song.”
-CHICAGO DAILY HERALD

"An intense, hard-charging persona reliant on reverence for nature and irreverence for nearly everything else."
-NASHVILLE SCENE



"Always have an eye on the door half expecting Lindsey to hurtle in wielding a snow shovel. ...Pure, deeply affecting music."
-AMRICANA-UK.COM

"We Are All Alone... might stand next to John Wesley Harding and not blush with shame. Terrific, astringent record."
-THE INDEPENDENT (UK)

"Both new and original, yet seems to have sprung from a well that is without a time or an age. And therein lies the real genius.”
-AMERICANAROOTS.COM

General Info

  • Genre: Americana / Folk / Rock

    Location Montana, Un

    Profile Views: 69620

    Last Login: 12/26/2011

    Member Since 12/10/2005

    Record Label Spacebar Recordings

    Type of Label Indie

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