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Jon
Dee Graham –
AMP
Awards 2004: The best year ever? For Jon Dee, yeah
'The Great Battle' wins the top spot in the Austin Music
Pundit Awards
By Michael Corcoran
Dec. 30, 2004
With 'The Great Battle,' Jon Dee Graham's combination of
solid musicianship, salt-of-the-earth songwriting and gravelly-voiced
delivery scored with critics. 'This year's gonna be the
best year ever ... just wait and see," Jon Dee Graham
sings on the title track of "The Great Battle,"
then concedes, "For about 45 minutes, then watch it
sink into the sea." Here are part of your 45 minutes,
Mr. Graham: Our panel of critics, music directors and insiders
who voted in the eighth annual Austin Music Pundit Awards
has declared "The Great Battle," a hardened, unflinching,
yet ultimately sweet exploration of the human condition,
the best Austin album of 2004. Produced by Charlie Sexton
and engineered by Jared Tuten at the Top Hat and Wire studios
in South Austin, "Battle" is so consistently good
that the AMP crew voted individually for four of its tracks
as the best Austin song. A perennial critics' fave, the
gravel-throated guitar ace has consistently placed high
in AMP voting, but with "The Great Battle" Graham
put it together like never before.
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