The Grahams

Forming a country-rock duo rooted in both marriage and melody, Alyssa and Doug Graham grew up in New York before settling in Nashville. Their breakthrough arrived in 2013 when the debut album Riverman's Daughter found steady favor on Americana radio.

Travel along storied American roads and waterways supplied the thematic core for later projects, among them Glory Bound in 2016, Kids Like Us in 2019, and the documentary film Rattle the Hocks.

Childhood companions who became high school sweethearts and then spouses, the Grahams had already explored multiple musical idioms together before committing to the Americana direction of their first album. Alyssa had earlier built a solo profile as a pop and jazz vocalist, releasing two favorably received records in the mid-2000s. Eager to concentrate on original songs, the couple drove the length of the historic Great River Road that follows the Mississippi, an experience that supplied the impetus for Riverman's Daughter and its fusion of country, folk, bluegrass, and rock. Referencing Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie among their touchstones, they delivered the expansive Glory Bound in 2016. Replacing river routes with rail lines, they completed several train journeys and enlisted producer Wes Sharon for both the album and its companion documentary, Rattle the Hocks. A motorcycle ride tracing historic Route 66 later shaped the retro-pop and rock atmosphere of their 2020 album Kids Like Us.