A long straight Midwestern two- lane running right up to the doorstep of dusk, flanked by endless fields and a girl in cutoff jeans with big city dreams… Looking down is Tennessee native Ben Graves, a San Francisco- based singer/song- writer musing Americana. Winner of multiple perform- ance awards from the Northern California Songwriters' Association, Graves "delivers incisive observations on the everyday in a honeyed voice (San Francisco Bay Guardian)," via melodies that are "consistently fresh and inventive (the Performing Songwriter magazine)." With his quartet featuring drummer Parker Daggett, Steve Hogan on Hammond organ and keys, and ex-Cherry Poppin' Daddies bassist Darren Cassidy, Graves weaves his jazz-inflected steel string guitar and soulful voice into a roots- rock tapestry that is at once folkwise and funky. |
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