The Grahams
are performing
at The
Pike Room this Thursday September
26th.
Win a pair of free tickets by emailing motorcityblog@earthlink.net
Get more info and tickets here
http://www.thecrofoot.com/
Get more info and tickets here
http://www.thecrofoot.com/
Life-long
childhood friends and romantic partners Alyssa and Doug Graham recently released
their first album as The
Grahams, produced by
Malcolm
Burn and entitled
Riverman’s
Daughter, via CEN/RED
Distribution.
Riverman's
Daughter was produced by Grammy-winner Malcolm Burn and
unveils a truly unique and captivating narrative: Alyssa and Doug put their New
York City lives on hold, and armed with just guitars and backpacks traveled the
2,500 miles of highways and byways of the Mississippi, from Minnesota to
Louisiana.
Riverman’s Daughter is not only a re-telling of this
journey, but a true concept album that vividly lures the listener into the gigs
at various gin and juke joints along the Great River Road, meeting a colorful
cast of characters and genuine music makers along the way with whom The Grahams
exchanged stories through the common bond of song. Yet perhaps the biggest
inspiration on Riverman’s Daughter was Doug’s own mother, Gigi, the
matriarch of the Graham family clan and true fan of the duo who had been
diagnosed with cancer earlier that year. As her condition worsened, The Grahams
picked up their guitars and newly minted collection of songs in the service of
Gigi’s “angel band,” and played by her side until she passed
away.
Before forming The Grahams, Alyssa and Doug have
collaborated on two Alyssa Graham albums, winning considerable critical acclaim
and have performed at downtown New York City clubs such as Joe's Pub, The Living
Room and Rockwood Music Hall, as well as nationally and internationally from
California to Paris, London, Tokyo, and beyond.
Riverman's Daughter
was recorded in Nashville entirely live to tape without headphones or
isolation-a choice that transposes to the album the naturalness and immediacy
that characterized the writing. The album was recorded with mostly simple
acoustic accompaniment by Malcolm Burn (bass,
piano, guitar, backing vocals), Bryan Owings (drums,
percussion), Phil
Madeira (guitar, dobro, lap steel, mando guitar), Colin Linden (banjo,
dobro, electric guitar), Steve Fishell (pedal
steel, dobro) and Chris Carmichael
(strings). The Grammy-nominated North Mississippi Allstars'
Luther and Cody Dickinson
(guitars and drums, respectively) play on several tracks.
DUENSDAY!
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