Up to this point, Canadian singer/songwriter Graham Greer has been best known as the lead singer/guitarist/songwriter of Barstool Prophets, who toured Canada and the US through much of the 1990’s in support of one 1993 indie release and two major-label releases while signed to Mercury/Polygram (1995’s “Crank” and1997’s “Last of the Big Game Hunters“).

      ‘Paranoia‘, the second single from ‘Crank’, was featured in the Alliance/Atlantis major motion picture “Never Talk to Strangers” (starring Rebecca Demornay and Antonio Banderas) and helped spur ‘Crank’ on to worldwide release in 1996 through Polygram.    After Barstool Prophets parted ways in 1999, Graham got as far away from the music business as he could, becoming a mechanic’s apprentice and learning the trade. Bruised knuckles and gritted teeth soon followed and Greer found himself sending home-recordings to his friend, veteran US producer Joe Hardy (ZZ Top, Steve Earle, Tom Cochrane) to get some input and salvage his sanity.   Graham has since released one solo CD under the name ‘Moonlight Graham’ entitled “Palookaville” (2003) which he co-produced with Joe and has just completed a new self-titled solo CD. This time the production is shared between Graham, Joe, and Graham’s long-time friend and multi-instrumentalist Todd Huckabone.   The new recordings were fired back and forth via the internet between Huckabone’s Listening Eye Studio in Chelsea, QC and Joe Hardy’s studio in Houston, TX as tracks were added and revamped at both ends. A few of the songs even detoured through Shanghai, China where Ottawa-expatriate Frank Levin added Hammond organ.    The new self-titled solo release sees Graham embracing and building on the strengths he’s displayed in the past while striking off in new directions musically. These new songs are a far cry from Graham’s alt-rock beginnings, this time incorporating everything from the seething gypsy violin on ‘The Front’ (a biting take on superficiality) to the haunting lap steel guitar on ‘Go’ (written after the loss of one of Graham’s high school friends to cancer a few years ago) to the alt-country swagger of ‘Buttercup’ (a true story about a girl with a flower tattoo)…but still featuring the signature phrase-turning wordplay Graham was known for in the Prophets.    This lyrical edge is evidenced in the seething anti-love anthem ‘Lovesong’ (“This is a Lovesong because I love that you’re gone”), the examination of inspiration itself in ‘Bring Me Fire’ (“Bring me fire. Bring me flame. Push the dark back from where it came.”) and Graham’s take on life in general in the uplifting ‘Wire-Walker’ (“This balance-wire of life is a very fickle thing. You can never tell her length or to which side she’ll swing. Just when you think you’ve found equilibrium in the fray she turns and sends you off another way.”)