"...a real depth and subtly beneath the surface... 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

"Hell Under The Skullbones solidifies his place as a premier songwriter in the rich, dark tradition of folk legends Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly. ...Tremendous songwriting and grasp of the folk tradition. Highly recommended." -Jeff Weiss, MILES OF MUSIC

"While his style is different than the last album, it's just as good, with sincere, dark, roots, Americana songs. ...Haunting and deep, with beautiful songs that seem timeless." -CD Of The Month, RADIO 1190 

"Take equal parts Dylan, Waits, Hank Williams and some good old-fashioned punk rock attitude and you will begin to understand the genius of Graham Lindsey." -YOURSTANDARDLIFE.COM

"Graham Lindsey is a haunted old soul who apparently doesn't believe in a sophomore jinx. While he might fit into the Americana niche, he's a square peg; one gets the idea Lindsey is not playing to type. Lindsey's stark Gothic imagery is welcome hit-and-run tonic for the CD era." -Blaine Schultz, VITAL SOURCE MAGAZINE

"An excellent mid-sized album..." -Kees van Wee, HEAVEN

"Hell Under The Skullbones is a triumphant master work of the first order..."
-Maurice Dielemans, KINDAMUZIK

"Truly one of the best folk-rock albums of 2006." -BULUTHIM.BLOGSPOT.COM

"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. An album for those late night road trips through the heart of the country where the curves are numerous, the lights are few, and the ghosts of song writers past, present, and future smile dimly through the speakers. -Shaun Harvey, AMERICANAROOTS.COM

"Graham is the alt-country man of the future." -JC Shepard, LAST FM

"Honest, to the point, and heartbreaking... It’s an album that sounds best to me at night, sounds great while driving fast watching the moon sink down behind you in your rearview and wonder how much longer you have to drive before all the thoughts finally sort themselves out. ...Hunter S. Thompson would love the shit out of this album." -MUZZLEOFBEES.COM

"...Straightforward, unapologetic and sans bullshit. ...a dark album about death, trains, drinking and women. And it’s also about poetry. Lindsey’s music is wonderful, with mandolins and steel guitars aplenty, but his lyrics are the heart of the album ...introspective and nothing short of beautiful. Walking in the footsteps of Guthrie and Dylan, Lindsey’s feet are just the right size." -ASHCANRANTINGS.BLOGSPOT.COM

"Lindsey is clearly not going to release three CDs per year, but with the quality of [his] it's well worth the wait." -Peter Pleyte, ALTCOUNTRY.NL

"...a CD where you get the feeling that you are listening to something sensational. A CD of a man who can and will with any luck become very big." -Jacob Visser, PLATO

"A real beautiful album which will stay in my CD player for a long time to come. Graham Lindsey's music and voice have been compared to that of Dylan's, but I think that Lindsey has his own specific thing to do." -Jan Janssen, REAL ROOTS CAFE

"Hell Under The Skullbones cites more than just from the work of Bob Dylan, but also touches on Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, and even Mark Kozelek. Splendid." -Erwin Zijleman, PLATOMANIA

"Different than its predecessor... the quality of the songs has not declined. Striking, rather dark roots songs."
-CTRL.ALT.COUNTRY







"...One of the most haunting down-home performances [For A Decade of Sin: 11 Years of Bloodshot Records] comes from Madison-area singer Graham Lindsey." -Tom Laskin, ISTHMUS









"The most audacious roots songwriter's debut since Gillian Welch's Revival..."
-Anders Smith Lindall, NO DEPRESSION

"A noteworthy debut from a fine, uncompromising singer-writer... Mostly leaning towards intense folk-Americana, but with some flawless alt country."
-Sylvie Simmons, MOJO

"A wonderfully earthy debut of scuffed country clatter wrapped in a Dylanesque delivery steaming at the nostrils like a rabid mare. Still only 25, Lindsey's starkly plaintive voice is weather-bitten and wise way beyond his years." -Robert Hughes, UNCUT

"He's got the sing/talk delivery down pat and, like Dylan, he's a musical primitive, short on melody and long on urgent rhythmic declamations. Lindsey's a talented wordsmith..."

-J. Poet, HARP

"Well-traveled folk that's both hick and haunting. There's something strange in the water, and Lindsey's drunk it up."  -Meredith Ochs, ROLLINGSTONE.COM (Critics Top Albums of 2003)

"The angry, literate singer-songwriter, who lives in the Wisconsin woods, made a stunning debut with these stripped-back country-pop tunes. A road map of the human condition that carries the weight of a young Bob Dylan."  -Mary Houlihan, CHICAGO SUN TIMES

"Using a young rocker's abandon to crash through acoustic stereotypes and stake out an intense, hard-charging persona reliant on reverence for nature and irreverence for nearly everything else. ...armed with his acoustic guitar, harmonica, a heart full of passion and a mouthful of opinions." 
-Michael McCall, NASHVILLE SCENE

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

"With only an acoustic guitar, a harmonica, and the occasional slide guitar to back him, 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."  -David Peisner, MAXIM ONLINE

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

-Monica Kendrick, CHICAGO READER

"Everything about Graham Lindsey's striking debut, Famous Anonymous Wilderness, smacks of mystery, from the photo of the singer on the cover (small cowboy hat pushed back on his forehead, staring out at the world with large, haunted, childlike eyes) to the fierce little tunes within, which seem equally distilled from the musk and loam of old American folk and new-millennium 'alt' otherness. There's also a gripping punk desperation that tugs at the edges of many of the largely acoustic songs. Whatever haints vex him and fuel his music, that struggle is the listener's gain." -Erik Hage, POP CULTURE PRESS

"Lindsey barks, scoffs, smokes, and sputters first-person tales of withdrawal, resignation, woe, and the surmounting of said plights, each one a lesson in resilience brimming with philosophical fragments and the hard truths picked up along life’s voyage. Through clenched teeth he employs wisps of alliteration and internal rhymes to conjure distinctive imagery, pulling and stretching mouthfuls of words like taffy; accompanied mostly by acoustic guitar and harmonica, Lindsey displays a supernatural feel for the intangibles of a song. A record with nothing but highlights, and highly recommended." -SKYSCRAPER MAGAZINE

"Lindsey's brusque singing sounds way beyond his years. The way his phrasing embodies his stream of lyrics gives the illusion he is not performing the song, he is the song. The physicality he infuses makes them seem like they come from no time in particular, present or past. The flow of words delivers hard truths with a kind of a brutal eloquence."  -Mark Guarino, CHICAGO DAILY HERALD

"If there is a male counterpart to Gillian Welch, Lindsey is the man." 
-Tony Barnett, NEW CITY

"He sings like someone who is about to leave for good, with one last evening to share his thoughts." 
-Dean Bonzani, FLAG LIVE

"An unquestionably original work. My pick for the year's most impressive debut by a backcountry mile." 
-Rick Cornell, CLINK MAGAZINE

"The new big voice from the woods of Wisconsin. And he's kicking ass and taking names. This seething post-punkadour is not screwing around. It's extremely hardcore 60s folk, and classic alternative country. A pie in the face with a barbed wire crust to practitioners of the 70's influenced singer songwriter fare."
-Frank Goodman, PURE MUSIC

"Graham Lindsey has proven capable of preserving his gutsy punk attitude and, at the same time, mixing it with knowledge of and respect for musical and poetic tradition. In short, Lindsey sounds as honest and authentic as an artist possibly can." -Marianne Ebertowski, ROCKZILLAWORLD

"The best sort of backwoods Appalachian troubadour to crawl out of the hollers of old, weird Americana."
-Blaine Schultz, SHEPHERD EXPRESS

"It's one of those rare albums that comes out of nowhere and simply blows you away. ...Where several songwriters to whom he could reasonably be compared might seem to have an album as prodigious as this in them, they've never actually delivered and Lindsey does. What's more, you can't help feeling that this is just the start and there's more and even better to come."
-John Conquest, 3RD COAST MUSIC

"This album is just a great piece of music from start to finish. It's traveling minstrel hobo folk blues murder music at its best."  -Jack Sparks, THE OTHER SIDE OF COUNTRY

"He's clearly working in the same tradition as Dylan and Welch and giving the music a contemporary urgency that keeps it from being traditional and nostalgic."
-Kent Wolgamott, LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR

"Lindsey isn't exactly living in the past; he's just in a more appealing time zone than the one most new music inhabits."  -John DeFore, SAN ANTONIO CURRENT

"A batch of dark, acoustic country-folk that's poetic, surprisingly well-written and very promising."
-Heather Johnson, NASHVILLE RAGE

"There's a road-weary vibe to Famous Anonymous Wilderness that most of your other singer/songwriter types could only dream of having. ...Every song on here is quickly becoming a favorite, and I really recommend this album to those of you who like great storytelling music." 
-Joseph Kyle, MUNDANE SOUNDS

"Listening to Lindsey's hieratic whirlwind of images and rhymes, you remember that just a voice, a guitar and some harmonica can reveal, stun and rivet you to a musical vision. With an anger and urgency transposed, perhaps, from an earlier life as a punk rocker, Lindsey isn't a traditionalist. His best songs have a dire energy, an emotional and verbal volatility that feels more than a little dangerous -delivered in his spindly, Midwestern drawl, they'll tear holes in the air around you."
-Roy Kasten, RIVERFRONT TIMES

"[The] stripped down approach to these punk-tinged folk tunes doesn't compromise the heart-stirring emotion of each. And while Lindsey's voice isn't yet weathered, the sentiments certainly seem to be - in the sense that they tap into a darkness and wisdom beyond his years, with a warm, earthbound voice ringing of Jules Shear and Bob Dylan." -MILES OF MUSIC

"His spare new album puts the depression back in 'No Depression'."  -ISTHMUS

"Shades of early Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Townes Van Zandt reverberate throughout the blissfully claustrophobic halls of Famous Anonymous Wilderness and exhibit a young songwriter with a wildly promising future."  -Mark Norris, ART VOICE

"Graham Lindsey, town cowboy or country punk? One thing is at least well certain: Famous Anonymous Wilderness is a brilliant album."  -Maurice Dielemans,  KINDAMUZIK

"Lindsey owes a strong musical debt to the 60's folk revival. ...But he seems to owe something more fundamental to Harry Smith's oddball interpretation of Depression-era folk. His stark, poetic compositions evoke the same understated desperation, the same extremes of passion, the same sense of something very old and very weird."  -Matthew Miller, NOISE

"He has that freakish ability (see Richard Buckner, Dylan, Uncle Tupelo) to distill the musk and loam of old folk, murder ballads and rural music into his own mythic yet unmistakably contemporary fare... These are fierce little tunes with plenty of melodic grace beneath the poetry, and this is a powerful antidote to the predominant, pseudo-funky, James-Taylor-meets-the-new-millennium, singer-songwriter jive (Jason Mraz, John Mayer, etc.). This is complex, human stuff—all blood, heart-muscle, bone and sinew." -Erik Hage, METROLAND

"Whatever your comparison of choice happens to be, Lindsey is stubbornly a stylistic fish out of water. And while his sound may be retro, his words are still contemporary... Graham Lindsey may be a voice crying out in the (musical) wilderness, but he’s well worth a listen."
-Dan MacIntosh, ROUGHSTOCK

"He ain't gonna be anonymous for long. If Dylan channeled Hank, Graham Lindsey would still be a better sound."  -JC Shepard, KRFC

"One of the more amusing things about Graham Lindsey’s debut album is how many labels you can stick on it without capturing its essence. ...He’s at the front of a new wave of old-time folksingers — like Palace Brother Will Oldham and, at times, Beck. And that’s as close to a comfortable label as he's likely to get."
-Rob O'Connor, PHOENIX

"His album offers some poetic, bitter and beautiful tunes." 
-Tom Alesia, WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL

"Famous Anonymous Wilderness is nothing less than a moving and personally involved collection of songs..."  -Seanzilla, VERTICAL SLUM

"The reaction to Graham Lindsey that we have had from listeners is by far the strongest response of any album yet this year."  -Doug Neal, WDBM