Member Since: 12/10/2005
Band Members: Graham Lindsey
Influences: Obscure, smug, self-indulgent fringe scenes.
Sounds Like: "Well-traveled folk that's both hick and haunting. There's something strange in the water, and Lindsey's drunk it up."
-ROLLINGSTONE.COM
"Angry, literate singer-songwriter, who lives in the Wisconsin woods..."
-CHICAGO SUN TIMES
"Excellent… dark Americana, informed by his travels around the country."
-THE ONION
“A fine, uncompromising singer-writer…â€
MOJO MAGAZINE
“Scuffed country clatter wrapped in a Dylanesque delivery steaming at the nostrils like a rabid mare. …Weather-bitten and wise way beyond his years."
-UNCUT
“Lindsey’s a talented wordsmith…â€
-HARP MAGAZINE
“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.â€
-MAXIM.COM
"The most audacious roots songwriter's debut since Gillian Welch's Revival..."
-NO DEPRESSION MAGAZINE
"He sings like he's been sleeping in a roadside ditch for years -and enjoys it."
-CHICAGO READER
"Honest, to the point, and heartbreaking…â€
-MUZZLEOFBEES.COM
“Whatever haints vex him and fuel his music, that struggle is the listener's gain."
-POP CULTURE PRESS
"Graham is the alt-country man of the future."
-LAST FM
“Lindsey displays a supernatural feel for the intangibles of a song.â€
-SKYSCRAPER MAGAZINE
"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
“A premier songwriter in the rich, dark tradition of folk legends Woody Guthrie and Leadbellyâ€
-MILES OF MUSIC
"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.â€
-AMERICANAROOTS.COM
"Lindsey is clearly not going to release three CDs per year, but with the quality of [his] it's well worth the wait."
-ALTCOUNTRY.NL
“Striking, rather dark roots songs."
 -CTRL.ALT.COUNTRY
“Straightforward, unapologetic, and sans bullshit… Lindsey’s music is wonderful, with mandolins and steel guitars aplenty, but his lyrics are the heart… introspective and nothing short of beautiful.â€
-ASHCANRANTINGS
“Sincere, dark, roots, Americana songs. ...Haunting and deep, with beautiful songs that seem timeless."
-RADIO 1190 AM
“While he might fit into the Americana niche, he's a square peg; one gets the idea Lindsey is not playing to type.â€
-VITAL SOURCE MAGAZINE
"Complex, human stuff—all blood, heart-muscle, bone and sinew."
-METROLAND
"Puts the depression back in 'No Depression'."
-ISTHMUS
"If there is a male counterpart to Gillian Welch, Lindsey is the man."
-NEW CITY
"Traveling minstrel hobo folk blues murder music at its best."
-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."
-LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR
"An intense, hard-charging persona reliant on reverence for nature and irreverence for nearly everything else."
-NASHVILLE SCENE
"He sings like someone who is about to leave for good, with one last evening to share his thoughts."
-FLAGSTAFF LIVE
“Understated desperation …extremes of passion …a sense of something very old and very weird."
-NOISE
“A young songwriter with a wildly promising future."
-ART VOICE
“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."
-RIVERFRONT TIMES
"Lindsey isn't exactly living in the past; he's just in a more appealing time zone than the one most new music inhabits."
-SAN ANTONIO CURRENT
“…His phrasing embodies his stream of lyrics gives the illusion he is not performing the song, he is the song.â€
-CHICAGO DAILY HERALD
"A pie in the face with a barbed wire crust to practitioners of the 70's influenced singer songwriter fare."
-PURE MUSIC
"The best sort of backwoods Appalachian troubadour to crawl out of the hollers of old, weird Americana."
-SHEPHERD EXPRESS
"If Dylan channeled Hank, Graham Lindsey would still be a better sound."
-KRFC FM
"Lindsey sounds as honest and authentic as an artist possibly can."
-ROCKZILLAWORLD
Record Label: Spacebar Recordings
SonicRendezvous
Type of Label: Indie