Jeff Graham is a singer/songwriter/guitar player living in Tulsa, OK. He originally hails from Joplin, MO. He's based himself as a musician/songwriter in several locales, including Columbia, Springfield, and Kansas City, MO; Austin, TX; and Nashvill [+]Jeff Graham is a singer/songwriter/guitar player living in Tulsa, OK. He originally hails from Joplin, MO. He's based himself as a musician/songwriter in several locales, including Columbia, Springfield, and Kansas City, MO; Austin, TX; and Nashville, TN. His list of past bands is fairly long and ridiculous but some of the notables include The Acrylics (from the long-ago days of New Wave-Joplin, MO '83-'84), My Three Sons (roots rock with Russ Somers/bass and Ray Daugherty/drums in 1986-Columbia, MO), Big Date ('87, first all-original band, 2 members were living in Kansas City & the other 2 were in Joplin, played Joplin and Tulsa most frequently).
With the recording of his first album, Moon Over Memphis, in 1989; Jeff began his on & off, love/hate relationship with his solo career. The album was recorded in a converted tool shop that adjoined a barn, on Greg Krutsinger's family farm just outside of Joplin. Miami, Oklahoma's Jacque Garoutte helmed the production and engineering chores. It came out on cassette and was released regionally at independent record stores (remember those?) in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Austin, TX, where Jeff moved in that same year to better promote his music. After hitting the coffeehouse circuit in that town with some ferocity that bordered on burnout, and, with no backing band in sight, he moved back to Missouri in 1990, relocating in Springfield. Two different Jeff Graham Bands were formed during this Springfield period (1990-1994), the first consisting of Jim Somers (drums) and Chris Williams (bass). The second Jeff Graham Band had Greg Krutsinger (lead singer of Joplin's Missionaries & later of Georgia Overdrive), Jacque Garoutte (also of The Missionaries & later a member of Joplin's Websters), and Ryan Butler filling the drum, bass, and rhythm guitar duties. During this period, The Jeff Graham Band got to do its share of regional touring and opening for the occasional headliner (John Kilzer, The Subdudes, The Connells, and The Rembrandts, to name a few).
With some renewed confidence and some familiar band mates behind him, Jeff went back into the studio (Lou Whitney's Column One Studios in Springfield) to record Where It Goes, in the fall of 1990. Joplin's Steve Ritter (The Acrylics, A Picture Made & The Connel
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