June 10: John Dee Graham at Club Cafe

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.

The Lowdown:
7:30PM Friday, June 10
Doors Open At 6PM
$12 in Advance / $14 Day of Show

Tickets available through TicketMaster
Charge by phone 412-323-1919.

Call Club Cafe at 412-431-4950 for more details.