Graham Lindsey (at least for now) lives in Montana with his wife and two dogs after having made stops in the driftless woods of Wisconsin, New York’s chrome canyons, a Nebraska farmhouse, and New Orleans along the way. Luckily this well-traveled troubadour has been bringing his guitar and banjo with him wherever he goes, and (recently) in Montana recorded his two new releases We Are All Alone In This Together and its companion The Mine EP. I can easily sum these two records up in one word (amazing) but it will most certainly take many more to do any justice at all.
The first thing that strikes you about We Are All Alone In This Together is how raw, primal, and off the beaten path Graham’s music is. It is dark and unapologetic and roots folk-blues that falls somewhere in the middle of Gillian Welch, Bob Dyan, Tom Waits, Woody Guthrie, etc… and does so without any hyperbole. Graham Lindsey and his uncompromising backwoods Americana is the real deal and We Are All Alone In This Together (while not aged like those I compared him to) can (even at this stage) easily hold its own with anything from those artists. We Are All Alone In This Together is haunting and timeless but doesn’t hark to the past in order to rehash it. Graham’s honesty and sincerity and naked emotion abounds on these songs and its instantly apparent that this is as contemporary as any current Americana currently being played by peers like William Elliott Whitmore, Austin Lucas, and Chuck Ragan.
While Graham Lindsey’s aching gravelly voice and his lyrics (along with his acoustic guitar and banjo) are at the heart of We Are All Alone In This Together but the addition of fiddle, pedal steel guitar, harmonica, and other assorted instrumentation give this layers and a scruffy richness that makes it bore its way into your heart. It is almost all I’ve been listening to since I heard the first notes. Both We Are All Alone In This Together and The Mine EP will be released just under a month from now on 11/18/2008 on Spacebar Recordings.
MP3 | Graham Lindsey – Shit On A Shovel We Are All Alone In This Together
MP3 | Graham Lindsey – Everything The Mine EP
