Vibrant Nashville-based Americana duo The Grahams (pronounced Grams) will play Cardiff this spring as part of an extensive February-March 2018 UK tour previewing material from two eagerly anticipated projects due later this year.
Alyssa and Doug Graham have spent nearly their entire lives exploring music together. Friends since she was 7 and he was 9, they became a couple in their teens, then husband and wife. Somewhere along the way, they also became The Grahams, a dynamic Americana duo who’ve married their love of adventure with a desire to build on foundations laid by their musical predecessors.
Their first song-crafting expedition, along the Mississippi’s Great River Road, became their 2013 debut, Riverman’s Daughter. For its follow-up, Glory Bound, they rode the rails – and wound up recording not only a studio album, but Rattle The Hocks, a documentary and live album recorded on the move and in venues from Sun Studio to Amtrak’s famed City of New Orleans train.
Their new studio album produced by Richard Swift, sees The Grahams continuing their adventurous exploration of the USA, this time around on two wheels, the soundtrack to their new feature length documentary Love & Distortion.
In the Fall of 2016, The Grahams, set out on a spectacular motorcycle expedition across America’s time warped Route 66. Amidst the neon, the romance, the heat, the music and the sheer power of nostalgia, The Grahams explore the concept of “real” America with the eccentric and notorious characters who live and work in the strange and mysterious world that is Route 66.
On the first taster from the soundtrack, which will only be available as a limited edition 7” single at UK shows, until the full soundtrack’s official release later this year, The Grahams interpret The Pretenders’ ‘Don’t Get Me Wrong’, a Top 10 hit on both sides of the Atlantic in 1986, and Mazzy Star’s 1994 cult classic ‘Fade into You’.
- Catch The Grahams at Cardiff’s Moon Club on March 5. For further details on The Grahams visit thegrahamsmusic.net