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Artist
Wayne Graham
12+ albums
folk
about
The story thus far.. On the surface, Wayne Graham is a five-piece folk rock band, bred in the beautiful Appalachain Mountains of Southeastern Kentucky. Look a little deeper and you'll find that Wayne Graham is truly the brainchild of brothers Kenny and Hayden Miles. The name itself is derived from the first names of their Grandfathers, Wayne Miles and Graham Kincer. Inspired by their loving family and musical heritage, relationships with God, and a desire to be unique, they lay the foundations in both music and group aspirations. The band began as a small project Kenny and Hayden undertook back in 2008. Finding themselves bandless, they started focusing their musical energies to music and lyrics of their own flavor. In 2009, Charlie West joined the brothers and their parents in their church's praise and worship band, where he was introduced to the project. He was intrigued with what he was hearing and started to play around with bass lines for the songs they'd already written. These seemed to flow along the same path the brothers were trodding, thus the duet became a trio. Trying on a few names, the trio played a show or two, all the time continuing to come up with new songs. Pretty soon there were enough for an album, and Kenny being fresh out of recording school, they donned the name Wayne Graham and made one. "Ripe Old Age" was finished in early 2010 and the boys were eager to promote it with shows around the area, but they ran into a problem. As a three piece, comparat
