Jon Dee Graham

Along with peers James McMurtry, Lucinda Williams, Alejandro Escovedo and Steve Earle, Graham has made a long series of records that artfully combine his personal tale with universal truth... it's perhaps the first time Graham let's his music open up and stretch out like a lazy Sunday morning in bed with the newspaper and a big mug of coffee. Garage Sale" is supple. Graham takes his time with beds of hymn-like organ, Crazy Horse-style jamming, and instrumental lap steel. It's still a Jon Dee Graham record, complete with moments of punk abandon and pointed turns of phrase. But it's also something new." - No Depression