
Graham Lindsey’s latest offering
Hell
Under The Skullbones
has already been hailed “a triumphant masterwork of the first order”
(Kindamuzik) and “a CD where you get the feeling you are listening
to something sensational. A CD of a man who can and will with any
luck become very big.” (Plato Magazine)
The ten song “excellent mid-sized
album” (Heaven Magazine) is “fiery folk-blues-twang, augmented by
notable cameos from Van Dyke Parks, pedal steel whiz Greg Leisz and
ex-Captain Beefheart guitarist Moris Tepper.” (Uncut Magazine) Also
featured are upright bassist Larry Taylor (Tom Waits) and Nick
Vincent (Frank Black and the Catholics) among others.
The sophomore effort and follow
up to his critically acclaimed 2003 debut Famous Anonymous
Wilderness is “different than its predecessor… but the quality
of the songs has not declined. Striking, rather dark roots songs.” (Ctrl.Alt.Country)
Produced by
Steve Deutsch
(Van Dyke Parks, Linda Thompson, Lisa Loeb), it was first released
in Europe January 16, 2006 on
Sonic
Rendezvous
and spent the month of February as #1 on the Euro Americana Chart.
Hell Under The Skullbones was recently released August 15, 2006 in
the U.S. on
Spacebar Recordings.
Graham’s previously unreleased
song “No Way Out But Down” was included on
Bloodshot
Records’
anniversary compilation
For A Decade Of Sin: 11 Years of Bloodshot Records
released October 25, 2005. His song was called “one of the most
haunting down-home performances” (Isthmus) on the 2-disc set.
Graham’s debut
Famous Anonymous Wilderness
was released September 2, 2003 on
Catamount
Records
of Nashville, TN. Featured on a special edition of NPR's All Songs
Considered as well as making it onto dozens of top ten lists, it was
most notably heralded by No Depression Magazine as “the most
audacious roots songwriter’s debut since Gillian Welch’s
Revival.” It also received Honorable Mention for Best
Debut/Artist and was chosen as one of the Top Forty Albums of 2003
by Harp magazine.
The album was written during a
self-imposed exile in a rural Nebraska farmhouse basement when he
was only 25. After many brief and repudiated moves around the
country (New Orleans and Brooklyn among them) and having spent most
of his adolescence in punk rock bands, including “the world’s
youngest punk band” Old Skull, Graham began writing the punk
influenced folk songs that would become Famous Anonymous
Wilderness.
Various tracks from the debut
have received national and international radio airplay on a variety
of public, college, community, and AA radio stations, specialty
shows, XM Satellite Radio, and numerous net streams.
In December of 2004 Uncut
Magazine featured Graham’s song “Dead Man’s Waltz” on their
cover-mount CD
Tracks Inspired By Bob Dylan
–Volume 2 alongside Richie Havens, John
Prine, Steve Goodman,
Billy Bragg and others.
"Emma Rumble" was used in the opening
credit sequence of the feature film
Dunsmore
(starring W. Earl Brown, Talia Shire, Barry Corbin) directed by
Peter Spirer.
Graham has performed as official
tour support for Wayne "The Train" Hancock as well as having opened
for acts including Robbie Fulks, Lou Barlow, The Hackensaw Boys, Two
Cow Garage, Oh Susanna, Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter, and
Laurie Stirratt. He has also shared stages with Dave Heumann (Palace
Brothers), and Dave Bergander (Celebration).