User:Nwgraff/Nathan William Graff Band

Nathan William Graff is an Americana/Folk musician based in Albuquerque, NM. Born in Detroit, MI, in 1994, he was raised with the heavy influences of musicians such as Kid Rock and Ted Nugent. Nathan began to play music when he learned piano at the young age of 5. He stayed true to the instrument until he was around 13, when he picked up the guitar. Instantly swept away by the versitility of the instrument, he began to hone his skills. He particularly enjoyed the guitar picking styles of Waylon Jennings. At the age of 14, he bought a Fender Stratocaster with money he had accumulated from mowing lawns for several years. He instantly fell in love with the electrified instrument. His songwriting is also a huge factor in NWG's act. Never settling for doing a show where less than 75% of the songs preformed are his, he has developed a reputation as a young and upcoming songwriter. Graff says that his main songwriting influences are all of the Texas legends such as, Ray Wylie Hubbard, David Allan Coe, Billy Joe Shaver, and others such as Willie Nelson.

He has played with many musicians who add many different influences to his music like a tribal beat or a jazz feel. Currently he is playing with Alden Ray Reviere with ARR playing bass, keyboards, and flute. A NWG show may also be considered an amazing experience. Often drawing crowds in the several hundreds to small venues, he has also been booed off the stage for making known his stand on where country music is headed nowadays. "All this new music has turned to crap/ nobody writes their own songs and that's a fact" reads one of his lines of his song "Stray Black Cat". He often will inform audiences about how shameful he believes country music is now and how all the songs sound the same. "One truck plus momma's home cooking plus a mention of fishing plus a mention of a dog and cold beer is the formula for a cookie cutter country song nowadays" as Graff has stated.

Nathan William Graff Band's Facebook page http://www.myspace.com/nathanwilliamgraffband