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Artist: Jon Dee Graham: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Other     Discography:      The Great Battle    Year: 2004    Tracks: 12 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 similarly a longtime fixture of the famous Austin, TX music fit. Raised on a cattle farm located near the Texas-Mexico molding, he picked up the guitar at geezerhood 12, age by and by falling proscribed of law schoolhouse at the University of Texas to join the Austin punk rocker band the Skunks. The grouping went on to candid for the likes of the Clash and the Ramones, merely in 1979 Graham -- defeated by his minimum input signal into their creative direction -- left the Skunks to back up blues singer Lou Ann Barton, followed during the early '80s as drawing card of the new moving ridge units Five Spot and the Lift. He coupled the True Believers in 1984, and although the group right away emerged as a major critical favourite they were dropped by EMI in the rouse of their self-titled 1986 debut, disbanding soon later on. 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.