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"Lucky Jim" is the name under which Gordon Grahame records, writes, performs & produces.

He has gone to number one, twice in the UK iTunes charts, and is widely known in the U.K. for the track "You’re Lovely To Me" which was used in a nation wide advertising campaign. He has built global fanbases in Germany, Holland, Greece and Israel and played with such acts as - Jeff Buckley, Texas, Ocean Colour Scene, The Happy Mondays, Pete Murray, Rocco Deluca, Joy Zipper, Turin Brakes as well as performing at Glastonbury, The Fleade and T in The Park.

In his previous incarnation as The Lost Soul Band, he recorded the first Alt-Country album to come out of the UK “Friday The Thirteenth And Everything’s Rosie” in 1990 and the band continues to have a following today.

Now based in Brighton, England and following on from his seen previous albums under the name ‘Lucky Jim’ - Our Troubles End Tonight, Let It Come, All The Kings Horses, True North, The Soul is Ugly but Love is Blind, For The Love Of Emily and The Lovers - he has recently released "Copenhagen" now available for digital download on iTunes and amazon.com

"I had a guitar. It was an acoustic that had strings so high above the fretboard that I used to call it 'the cheese grater' because I'd play till my fingers bled. When they did I would swoon, with beads of sweat appearing on my forehead. I would force my fingers down on the strings harder, willing myself to play through the pain, all the time I would be thinking of Pete Townsend playing Pinball Wizard and that, even though I was way behind everybody else I knew who could already play far better, that somehow by sheer bloody minded force, I would have the thing I desired. To be able to sing a song and play the guitar at the same time."
- Gordon Grahame.

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For the Love of Emily

General Info

  • Genre: Country / Folk / Folk Rock

    Location BRIGHTON, Un

    Profile Views: 257317

    Last Login: 5/21/2013

    Member Since 3/17/2006

    Website www.luckyjimmusic.com

    Record Label Stella Maris Music

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    "Lucky Jim" is the name under which Gordon Grahame records, writes, performs & produces.

  • Members

    Gordon Grahame, Eddie Myer, Adrian Oxaal, Sandy Watson, Alexander Watson, Keith Kelly and The Jaw

  • Influences

    - MUSIC - Tom Waits, Al Green, David Bowie, The Doors, Hank Williams Townes Van Zandt, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Joni Mitchell. - WRITERS - Burrougs, Kerouak, Bukowski, Blake, Ginsberg, Swedenbourg, Bauderaire, Rimbaud, Anaconas, Crowley, Gurdieff, Ouspenski, Graves, Yeats. - PEOPLE - Sandyman, Tommy Brown, Chris Dunn, Gazza. Scott D'arcy, Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright, Billy Jones, Mike and Brian Hall, Tristan Egolf, Grant Walker, Jimmie Grahame.

  • Sounds Like

    Michel Legrand, Van Morrison, Jaques Brel, Elliot Smith, Bob Dylan, Serge Gainsbourg, Neil Young, Kris Kristofferson, Leonard Cohen & Gram Parsons.

Contact

FOR PROFESSIONAL ENQUIRIES:
bookings@luckyjimmusic.com
press@luckyjimmusic.com

Press


THE INDEPENDENT

"...Grahame displays a neat, original turn of phrase and the ability to turn clichés on their head..."

UNCUT MAGAZINE ****

"...this collection of border skirmishes is surprisingly effective thanks to a neat line in bruised acoustic melancholia and Gordon's prairie-dog growl...all mandolin, strings and dusty melodies blown in from the desert... Gainsbourg's 'Bonnie & Clyde' for the E generation"

NOW MAGAZINE ****

“A rakishly romantic lyricist with a knack for memorable melodies and a flair for melodrama, Lucky Jim’s Gordon Grahame is clearly a disciple of the Lee Hazlewood poet/fool/bum school of songster chicanery...”

CONTACT MUSIC ONLINE - 9/10

"...With a sound at turns like Blonde on Blonde, Dylan, Harry Nilsson, Leonard Cohen, and maybe even Lee Hazlewood, Gordon Grahame has made an album that could have been released at the end of the 60s, so full of character and rich, analogue soul in every song."

MUSIC OMH

“...an effortlessly elegant collection of unaffected songs filled with heart-stopping chord structures and achingly wry melodies - vintage guitar songwriting to its core.”

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