For the passed five years of his musical career Graham Lindsey has been mysteriously absent from the live music circuit. Although he has continued to release studio albums, 2009's We Are All Alone In This Together and The Mine EP, he has opted to stay out of the spotlight and instead follow his other passions. "It's not that mysterious," he says, “I’m a fairly private person. Who I am as an artist is one dimension of me, and the other parts that make up who I am have to have their say as well. My songs are just the bi-product of it all.”

  The reclusive Wisconsin native originally from Madison, Wisconsin and an ex-member of kiddy punk band Old Skull has spent the better part of his adult life residing in abodes as remote as the continental U.S. can provide -and long before it was songwriter-sheik to do so. It was in the very rural plains of Nebraska while living in the basement of a farmhouse that he wrote the lion’s share of what would become his critically acclaimed, stripped-down, folk tour-de-force debut Famous Anonymous Wilderness released in 2003 on Nashville-based Catamount Records. He later moved into a log cabin deep in the hills of Wisconsin's Mississippi river valley, and then yet another cabin in the Bridger Mountains outside of Bozeman, Montana. He's no stranger to the pollution, crowds, and headaches of metropolitan life either, having done time in places like Brooklyn, New York and pre-Katrina New Orleans. All of this inevitably finds its claustrophobic way into Lindsey's songwriting, "Every artist should be affected by their surroundings,” he explains. “I just try to breathe in where I am and what I'm doing and exhale some kind of pattern, something more understandable to me. Music is simply a tool I use to help me relate.” As for the off the beaten path locales: “I purposefully seek out these kinds of places. People always ask me why I move to places that could never help advance my [music] career, and I just don't understand that kind of thinking. I'm not a movie star, or a quarterback, or a politician. I'd rather be happy and fulfilled than rich or famous any day.”

  This unabated hunt for an authentic, albeit less glamorous, uniquely American existence is what many point to as the core of his lyrics: They tied you down and paraded you 'round, didn't you have fun?/ They bribed you to stay and then and hauled you away in a big bass drum, now how come?/ Limp your way home down the middle of the road ‘cause you have to/ It's always the same, it's a god damn shame that we have to, but we have to he sings on eight-minute epic ‘The Good Life’ from his most recent album We Are All Alone In This Together. “I’m not trying to convey any particular message or agenda with my lyrics. My hope is that there's a connection between the songs and the listener. So, I do my best to service the songs. I'm just a conduit. It’s one way of standing in the window looking out and waving, hoping to find others out there who might understand and wave back.”

  Over the years Lindsey’s music has drawn the inevitable deluge of Dylan comparisons, to "if Gillian Welch had a male counterpart," while he continues to follow the folk traditions of troubadours like Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly. But with Lindsey’s second offering, Hell Under The Skullbones released on Spacebar Recordings in the U.S. in 2006, Lindsey and producer Steve Deutsch (Linda Thompson, Van Dyke Parks) opted for a more layered approach, focusing on rock oriented instrumentation provided by an all-star lineup of studio wizards such as Greg Leisz, Moris Tepper (Captain Beefheart), Nick Vincent (Frank Black & The Catholics), and Larry Taylor (Tom Waits), among others. The album ushered in a slew of praise from overseas where it was also released on Sonic Rendezvous. Lindsey's songs began appearing on many compilations, most notably Uncut Magazine's Songs Inspired by Bob Dylan and Bloodshot Records' For a Decade of Sin: 11 Years of Bloodshot Records. Several independent film releases followed featuring his songs, including 2004's Dunsmore, and the multi-award winning debut from Michael McCallum and Rebel Pictures Fairview Street.

  In 2007, while hunkered down in the mountains near Bozeman, Montana, Graham married and soon after began work on his third full-length release We Are All Alone in This Together. "The title actually came from a passage I had written for my wedding vows. Tina," now his wife "and I were pretty isolated up there but had so many good, close friends. That phrase really summed up much of the album's songs, how I felt at the time, and even politically and socio-economically what was just starting to happen in this country." Producer Steve Deutsch made the trek out from California and teamed up with Jason Wickens of Bozeman's Blue Roan Recording and in a matter of only three days much of the album was recorded in Graham's mountain cabin home in one of the greatest highlights, he contends, of his long career. "It was phenomenal. All of our friends came up to the cabin during the recording and contributed something to the songs. It was very important to me that everyone have a spot on it, lending a guitar track, singing back up, whatever. Even our dogs are barking on a few songs." The eighty-plus minutes of material was eventually divided into two separate releases, the full-length as well as a shorter counterpart titled The Mine EP. Both were simultaneously released on Spacebar Recordings in 2009.

  Graham's wife Tina has recently begun to accompany him live on drums and percussion. "There's no one else I could dream of wanting to perform my songs with more. It's not just about the chops for me, it's about the connection," he says. This connection he esteems has also seen him turn down half a dozen record label offers in favor of Farmageddon Records, a small yet ambitious new Montana-based label, operated by longtime and close friend Darren Dorlarque. Farmageddon’s roster includes an eclectic mix of edgy, roots-based artists, all of whom, he's quick to point out, are good friends. "We're not colleagues or business associates. We are family. Many of us have known each other for years and help one another as much as we can, playing on each other's recordings, touring together, designing album art and even doing some PR work for one another. It's symbiotic, it's positive, it's incredibly inspiring."

  This collective, familial approach to an otherwise long suffering and self-destructive industry has caught the attention of quite a few new fans and friends, including Danielle Colby: roots music lover, Burlesque Le Moustache artist, and popularly known for her investigative office work on History Channel's American Pickers. In May of 2011 Colby joined forces with Farmageddon to release Danielle Colby Presents: The Music of Farmageddon Records Vol. 1 which features Graham's song 'Big Dark World Of Hate And Lies'.