Somewhere in their history together, lifelong friends
Alyssa and Doug Graham became an item, married, and decided to craft their
gorgeous blend of Americana and folk music into the duo known as the Grahams.
Earlier this year, the pair celebrated the release of their latest LP, Glory
Bound, and on December 8th the Taste of Country was thrilled to debut the
official (and old-school) music video for the disc’s eighth track,
“Griggstown.”
“Originally, ‘Griggstown’ the song was inspired by
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The House of the Seven Gables and the image of a
woman in danger running toward the house,” Alyssa tells us. “However, sometimes
a video grows directly out of a song, and sometimes it spins off in a different
direction, and creates a surprising complement.”
As Alyssa admits, that sort of surprise isn’t a bad
thing.
“That’s the beauty of art and the nature of music and
film. Though Hawthorne wrote his novel in the 1850s in America and The Unholy Four, directed by Enzo
Borboni, is a classic 1970s Spaghetti Western, they both share many foreboding
elements and they both make you feel a sense of defiance from the male lead in
the film or the female lead in the song,” she says. “But mostly the distance
from Griggstown to the Spaghetti West, and the way that casts the song in a new
light, are what make us love this video.”
While it’s no easy task to take someone else’s footage
and mold it to fit your own music — especially when the time between
“Griggstown” and The Unholy Four is
somewhere around four decades — it’s safe to say the Grahams have created an
unforgettable viewing event for this particular track.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the Grahams concern
themselves with both the visual and aural experiences related to their music.
Coinciding with the release of Glory Bound, the Grahams unveiled Rattle the
Hocks, a documentary that explores the relationship between the railroad and
American roots music, all-the-while focusing on the live recording of the new
record. You can grab details on the doc, the Grahams’ latest album and their
complete tour itinerary at their official website: http://thegrahamsmusic.net/
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