★★★★★
Austinite Jon Dee Graham has a personality bigger than the state of Texas. He can make fun of himself and the music industry one minute and then mock the pretentiousness of contemporary culture the next (re: at a recent show, Graham cackled, "I got my yearly songwriting royalties in the mail yesterday. I spent on a week's worth of groceries at the food museum down the street, Whole Paycheck."). Austin is the home of the original Whole Foods Market. Graham can make one smile just be grinning...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-08-10
★★★★★
Having spent years as a sideman for acts ranging from the True Believers to John Doe to Kelly Willis, Austin's Jon Dee Graham didn't get around to releasing an album under his own name until he was thirty-eight. Now seven years and four albums into his solo career, he's proven himself to be one of the finest songwriters in the Americana arena -- and he's still a hell of a mean guitarist, to boot...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Jon Dee Graham has a distinct, gruff voice delivering country/folk visions of undeniable vision and effect. This eloquent troubadour belies a Texas punk background as guitarists for the Skunks and then True Believers. Following this, stint in L.A. led Graham to work with members of X, Michelle Shocked, Simon Bonney and more...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
It only takes a couple of songs on Jon Dee Graham's latest album, Full, to realize he's quite earnest about his music. Even on a song with a title like "Something Wonderful," he sounds deadly serious, delivering his gruff, Tom Waits-meets-alternative country-vocal, behind stinging electric guitar and a pounding bass. Yes, he ensures us that something very wonderful is going to happen, and perhaps means it, but the music never sells this careless, joyful mood...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Former member of Austin cult band True Believers, Jon Dee Graham's second album of gentle Americana features guest appearances by Patty Griffin on the minimalist "Look Up" and Bruce Hughes (ex-Poi Dog Pondering, Ugly Americans) on the darker, rockist "Black Box...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Having spent years as a sideman for acts ranging from the True Believers to John Doe to Kelly Willis, Austin's Jon Dee Graham didn't get around to releasing an album under his own name until he was thirty-eight. Now seven years and four albums into his solo career, he's proven himself to be one of the finest songwriters in the Americana arena -- and he's still a hell of a mean guitarist, to boot...
- www.rollingstone.com
2008-07-30
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