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In 2004, they released full-length “Drive.”īut Colton says being in the band eventually became a way to hide. The Graham Colton Band ended up staying on that tour for two years, and, early in the process, the guys were signed to a major label. “I just told my parents, ‘I think it’s time to put school on hold,'” remembers Colton. In fact, Duritz asked Colton and his backing band to open for the Crows during their fall 2002 tour. That’s when the whole thing became a lot more real,” Colton recounts to. With help from his parents, Colton recorded and self-released a demo CD of his songs in 2002 and, within months, “random people like Adam Duritz had somehow found my music. Colton’s songs spread and his fanbase multiplied. This was 1999, the year Napster started turning head, and many of his live solo acoustic performances were taped and then uploaded to the Internet. But what Colton didn’t realize initially was that people were taking notice of his rootsy folk-pop. He recalls those days as his “Jack Kerouac period,” and, indeed, he was on the road and on his own often. Though he had his doubts it would ever become a “real job,” he doggedly set out from campus every Thursday night to do weekend “mini-tours,” playing gigs all over Texas and getting himself back to school in time for class on Monday. As quarterback in high school, he helped lead his team to a division championship.īut Colton gave up the gridiron when he left his hometown of Oklahoma City to attend college in the sprawling metropolis of Dallas once there he decided to dedicate himself more seriously to music. But Colton was also a football player - apparently a pretty damn good one at that. And being in a band, while certainly having its good points, didn’t really gel with where Colton came from, or where he saw himself going.Ĭolton grew up in a musical household (his dad was in a ’70s cover band) and he started singing and playing guitar as a kid.

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The same week the Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton was telling the world she’d discovered how to express the “real her,” singer-songwriter Graham Colton was telling the same thing, only he was referring to his debut solo album: “Here Right Now” (Universal Republic).įor several years prior to the making of “Here Right Now,” Colton was in a situation he likens to “having four girlfriends”: he was in a band.

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