Jon Dee Graham

   
Artist: Jon Dee Graham

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Discography:


   
 The Great Battle

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 12

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Best known for his least sandpiper as a member of the acclaimed '80s roots-rock band the True Believers, singer/guitarist Jon Dee Graham was likewise a longtime fixture of the noted Austin, TX music fit. Raised on a ranch located near the Texas-Mexico molding, he picked up the guitar at geezerhood 12, years by and by falling proscribed of law schoolhouse at the University of Texas to join the Austin punk rocker band the Skunks. The group went on to open for the likes of the Clash and the Ramones, only in 1979 Graham -- defeated by his minimal input signal into their creative direction -- left the Skunks to back blues singer Lou Ann Barton, followed during the early '80s as leader of the new wave units Five Spot and the Lift. He coupled the True Believers in 1984, and although the group promptly emerged as a major critical favorite they were dropped by EMI in the wake of their self-titled 1986 debut, disbanding soon after.


Although Graham's gifts as a composer blossomed during his least sandpiper in the True Believers, he chose not to prosecute a solo career in the wake of the band's give, alternatively relocating from Austin to Los Angeles and collaborating with X frontman John Doe on his solo debut Converge John Doe. Subsequently running with everyone from Michelle Shocked to Patty Smyth, Graham earned a reputation as a often sought sideman and writer before going the West Coast in 1995 to go Europe with blues-rocker Calvin Russell. Upon returning to Austin the adjacent year, he was by now so disenchanted with the music manufacture that he accepted a structure job; vocalizer Kelly Willis at last lured Graham back to acting, withal, and in 1997 he too began work on his long-awaited solo debut Escape from Monster Island. Summerland followed in 1999.