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	Graham Parker
		Graham played "SOUL SHOES" which he dedicated to his mother who had just died (later I was told that she died the day of this show) to end his set.
		Graham & the Figs took the stage one last time for "BIG FAT ZERO" and a song dedicated to Joey, Joey being Joey Ramone and the song being The Ramones classic "SHEENA IS A PUNK ROCKER".
		Graham & the Figs were joined onstage by Frank Black to help out on vocals and bring this amazing show to an end.
	www.geocities.com /caughtlivetoo/parkergraham.htm (420 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Living / Arts / Graham Parker's softer side
		Today, though, Parker is less the angry young man than he is a wise sage who lives with his family in the country near Woodstock, N.Y. He professes to seek balance, not confrontation.
		Parker may not be a household name in rock 'n' roll, but he should be.
		Parker has been a musical chameleon of late -- his last album, ''Your Country," released in early 2004, was a country-slanted disc that even included a cover of Jerry Garcia's ''Sugaree." The forthcoming record with the Figgs, however, will be rocking.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2004/12/31/graham_parkers_softer_side (699 words)

	Graham Parker @ CanEHdian
		Graham Parker & The Rumor are perhaps best known for their rendition of "Hold Back The Night".
		Graham Parker and "Hold Back The Night" can now be heard once again, thanks to the recent issue of BBC Live 1977-1991.
		BBC Live 1977-1991 presents a Parker at the best of his game, the live performance, which is suiting considering Parker's emergence from the live London pub-rock scene in the early '70s.
	www.canehdian.com /non/artists/p/grahamparker/biography.html (319 words)

	Graham Parker - Your Country (Bloodshot)
		Parker has been a lot of things in his career, from the original "angry young man" to a pub/punk rocker to a romantic old family man, but he's managed to keep his country/rock hat firmly entrenched in mothballs...until now.
		Nomenclatures aside, Parker has always been a master at setting his poignant lyrics to a great melody, and Your Country is no exception, so don't let the title fool you into thinking Parker has joined his contemporary friends, drinking buddies, and leave-of-their-senses takers, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds and entered the country fray.
		Parker has quietly and consistently released albums that are the best of the lot.
	www.fakejazz.com /reviews/2004/grahamparker.shtml (516 words)

	Graham Parker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Graham Parker & the Rumour headed into the studio to cut their debut album with producer Nick Lowe, who gave the resulting record, Howlin' Wind, an appealingly ragged edge.
		Parker's final album for RCA -- and his last album to chart -- was the stripped-down Struck By Lightning (1991), and while it was critically praised, it didn't find an audience outside of his cult.
		Parker followed it with two albums in 1996, Live from New York, NY and Acid Bubblegum, which appeared within two months of each other late in the summer.
	www.djangomusic.com /artist_bio.asp?id=R++++14857 (1108 words)

	Graham Parker Reviews
		Arriving amidst the desultory musical landscape of the 1976, Graham Parker delivered a pair of fiery albums that combined the soulfulness of Van Morrison, the gritty melodrama of Bruce Springsteen, the hard rocking sensibility of the early Stones, and the corrosive wordsmithery of a pre-poetically obscure Dylan.
		Parker then starts in on some story about a middle class fl family ("Daddy Is A Postman"), and follows it with a brief ditty about the source of AIDS ("Green Monkeys").
		Parker's most recent album is his first indie release; after years of working on major labels without shifting product, he finally got his gold watch (I don't own a copy, either).
	starling.rinet.ru /music/temp/parker.html (2891 words)

	Graham Parker MP3 Downloads - Graham Parker Music Downloads - Graham Parker Music Videos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Struck By Lightning was the culmination of Graham Parker's previous two records, where he increasingly began to chronicle domestic tasks and affairs of the married heart.
		Parker begins to make his peace with human imperfection (though he can still be sharp-tongued) and starts to look for love ("It's All Worth Nothing Alone"), backed by a smooth session band and a clean Jack Douglas production, which cool his usual fire without putting it out.
		Generally regarded as Graham Parker's finest album, Squeezing out Sparks is a masterful fusion of pub rock classicism, new wave pop, and pure vitriol that makes even his most conventional singer/songwriter numbers bristle with energy.
	www.mp3.com /graham-parker/artists/4381/discography.html (550 words)

	Singer/Songwriters: Graham Parker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Passionate and articulate, lyrically direct and fearless, Parker is an artist deserving of rediscovery, though given his past propensity for pissing on the hand that feeds him, it probably isn't likely.
		Parker's voice, strangulated in the style of early Costello or John Hiatt, is an acquired taste.
		Parker continues to record, though not as prolifically, and while his current work may lack the hurricane velocity of his young man stuff (not for nothing that he called his debut album Howling Wind), it can still be intriguing.
	oakhaus.home.insightbb.com /singers2.htm (1027 words)

	Graham Parker - a brief biography
		Graham Parker himself rates Heat Treatment as one of his weaker efforts, a hasty follow up to the fine Howlin' Wind, one of his best.
		Parker re-emerged with a succession of more acoustic albums, recalling his indebtedness to Dylan and combining this with RandB influences and some uplifting and tender songs interspersed among others with his more scathing and vicious lyrics.
		Graham's interest in the web as a medium is gaining ground, with an internet release of LOOSE MONKEYS - spare tracks and demos in late 99 and in early 2000 a Yahoo chat and a cybercast by House of Blues.
	www.toadshow.com.au /rob/music/gp.htm (902 words)

	Smokebox.net: Graham Parker
		Parker himself had just completed a tour where he was the opening act for Old Slowhand, or God as some liked to call him, the classically boring Eric Clapton.
		Similar to the first Elvis Costello records, Graham Parker and the Rumour were under a ton of pressure to release albums at the whim and financial terms of the record label, then Mercury Records.
		Graham Parker has not only made kick-ass, clever, adult rock and roll for over a quarter of a century, but he has taken on the music industry publically, exposing it's enormous appetite and corruption.
	www.smokebox.net /archives/music/parker1101.html (2106 words)

	Graham Parker
		Graham Parker is an artist and curator, as well as the director of floating ip (formerly a project space in Manchester, UK, now an imprint operating from New York).
		Graham Parker's work considers the power relationships within designed structures - from provincial cities to graphic user interfaces on personal computers.
		Graham Parker has also shown throughout the UK and Europe, as well as in group shows in Philadelphia, San Francisco, Chicago and New York.
	www.grahamparker.info (303 words)

	RollingStone.com: Another Grey Area : Graham Parker : Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Graham Parker had plenty to say as an underdog, but he couldn't recognize himself as a celebrity.
		Parker the singer gets his teeth into the new compositions, perhaps because he figures he's already fulfilled minimum AOR requirements.
		Parker could come across without them, of course, and it'd be fascinating to hear him crude and unbridled on an independent label that'd be overjoyed with six-figure sales.
	rollingstone.com /reviews/album/_/id/194199/grahamparker?... (610 words)

	Graham Parker at Towne Crier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Graham Parker and The Rumour were formed in the summer of 1975 and released their first album, "Howlin' Wind," in January 1976 to worldwide critical acclaim.
		GP and The Rumour disbanded after "Escalator" and Parker went on to forge a solo career that continues to produce powerful work including 1988's "The Mona Lisa's Sister," 1991's "Struck By Lightning" and the hard rocking "Acid Bubblegum," released in 1996.
		Parker's first four albums plus a collection of lost demos and the fabled "Live at Marble Arch" were recently re-released by Universal in the U.K. His latest studio album, "Deepcut To Nowhere," was released on August 21st, 2001 on Razor and Tie/Evangeline.
	www.townecrier.com /acts/parker.htm (338 words)

	Bloodshot Records: News \| Graham Parker
		If Graham Parker and the Rumour hadn’t rocked as hard and as true back in 1976, the caliber of his writing would’ve made his songs ideal vehicles for the kind of assembly line, vanilla-flavored production that the major labels specialized in.
		Graham Parker has had a long association with the Garden State — beginning with a December of ’76 Passaic show, followed by a surprise Stone Pony set that same month appearing as guests of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes (the night before in NYC both bands had opened Robert Palmer’s Palladium gig).
		Graham kept referring to him as the "Figg du Jour" so I'm not sure what his future status is with the band.
	www.bloodshotrecords.com /news/grahamparker (4008 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Graham Parker (and the Rumour)
		A crabby pug whose bark is every bit as ferocious as his talent, Graham Parker comes on like an arrogant bantam with the world's bone up his butt — and then delivers the musical goods that justify his conceit and erase the ill-will he so enthusiastically spreads.
		Parker's seasonal record is a between-labels one-off: three originals (including the appropriately jaundiced "Christmas Is for Mugs") proffered in needless demo versions and merry full arrangements starring a New York crew led by producer/guitarist Jon Tiven.
		Of course Parker is not Dylan, and Max, the Rumour's first LP on their own, is not Big Pink, although they would obviously have loved it to be.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=graham_parker (2118 words)

	Jelly review: Graham Parker
		The adult Graham Parker is a reliable tunesmith, with an emerging lyrical maturity.
		Parker draws from a somewhat narrower base, sticking pretty close to the wealth of material from American RandB.
		Parker’s guitar work has improved markedly, and is now somewhat reminiscent of the choppy tones Mark Knopfler coaxes so wonderfully from his axe.
	www.jellyroll.com /05/grahamparker.html (623 words)

	Graham Parker : : Member Profile - Developer Fusion, the UK developer community - VB, ASP, C#, .NET, PHP and XML ...
		Graham Parker is a co-founder and principal of DevTrain and spends his time consulting, developing and training.
		Graham was a founding member of VBUG in 1994, and held the role of Chairman of the group until March 2005.
		Graham is a frequent speaker at technical conferences and has presented on a number of different topics to diverse audiences including VBITS, VBUG, the Access User Group and the British Computer Society.
	www.developerfusion.co.uk /members/profile.aspx?id=32988 (176 words)

	MTV.com - Graham Parker
		Stereotyped early in his career as the quintessential angry young man, Graham Parker was one of the most successful singer/songwriters to emerge from England's pub rock scene of the early '70s.
		With the assistance of DJ Charlie Gillett, the group landed a record contract with Mercury by the end of 1975.
		Parker continued to issue a steady stream of archive and live releases into the mid-2000s, and moved into singer/songwriter mode for the albums Deepcut to Nowhere and Your Country, the latter a roots rock-influenced affair released by the Chicago-based Bloodshot Records.
	www.mtv.com /bands/az/parker_graham/bio.jhtml (1159 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Graham Parker
		Bio: Graham Parker, whose classic albums include Howlin' Wind, Heat Treatment and Struck by Lightning divides his time between the wilds of upstate New York and London.
		Graham Parker has released over 20 albums, including Squeezing Out Sparks, considered one of the great rock and roll albums of all time.
		Carp is the story of Brian Porker, an aging rock star, told in a series of episodes from his life: as a nature-loving lad who collects eggs; a high-living rock singer auditioning to replace the "newly deceased" Mick Jagger; and in his final guise as an ornithologist comedian.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/GrahamParkereBooks.htm (173 words)

	Carp Fishing on Valium - Graham Parker
		Since then, Parker has spent the last twenty years moving from record label to record label, releasing a slew of moderate-selling albums -- good, bad, and indifferent -- and devoting some of his energies to literary pursuits.
		Parker brings his own perspective to the material by zeroing in on a poignant small-scale narrative about Brian Porker’s unusual friendship with a local tough named Aubrey.
		Given the frustrating ups and downs of Parker’s recording career, it’s hardly surprising that his take on the music business is mordant and cynical, but he also imparts a passion for songwriting and performing in spite of the corporate realities of the marketplace.
	www.culturevulture.net /Books/Carp.htm (834 words)

	Graham Parker at The Brokerage in Bellmore, NY
		Graham Parker at The Brokerage in Bellmore, NY Jazz Posters
		Accompanying himself on guitar and harmonica, Parker provided the adoring crowd with an evening of wonderful acoustic bluesy R&B. Drawing from his extensive catalog of hits, near hits and should-have-been hits, Parker was engaging, introspective and funny.
		Parker then picked up his guitar explained that he was not really a fan of The Grateful Dead.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=17246 (554 words)

	Graham Parker Interviewed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Parker’s old friend Lucinda Williams guests for a beautiful duet on “Cruel Lips,” and lap steel and acoustic guitar are the order of the day.
		Graham: There were times in the ’80s whenever I did interviews that I could talk for two hours with somebody, and they’d ask me about not being a big commercial success for five minutes, and that would be the entire interview.
		Graham: I didn’t know whether it was the right thing to do or not, but I said to hell with it, it’s going to fit on this record.
	www.mondocult.com /GParker.htm (2677 words)

	Interview: Graham Parker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After toiling in obscurity for much of the 1990s, Parker is back with an energetic young band called The Figgs, with whom he recorded last year's Acid Bubblegum ("corrosive and chewy," Parker says) and the recently released The Last Rock and Roll Tour, an exuberant live album.
		Parker is back with a vengeance on the album, which has him revisiting his old classics along with surprising new material, such as a cover of Prince's 1991 hit "Cream."
		Parker: I met them a few years ago at a club I was playing at.
	www.nuvo.net /hammer/int/gparker.html (1914 words)

	NashvilleRage.com: > Graham Parker: Your Country - Rage Cd Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Graham Parker, however, could sing the phone book and it would sound awesome.
		Graham duets with Lucinda Williams on Cruel Lips, but, with her powerful voice, the song would be better if they had traded lines instead of sharing vocals.
		Predictably, Parker does a country take on one of his own tunes, but it's not Don't Bother with the Local Girls, as I had imagined.
	www.nashvillerage.com /music/cds/cds2004/040104-grahamparker.shtml (240 words)

	Graham Parker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Middle age and family living in pastoral Woodstock may have mellowed Graham Parker a bit, but he can still work up a pretty good head of steam when he wants to.
		He makes that clear enough on Acid Bubblegum, a prickly disc in which he forsakes his recent explorations of domesticity in favor of good old bile over the state of the modern world.
		Backed by a group that includes former Rumour bassist Andrew Bodnar and one-time Blondie keyboardist Jimmy Destri, Parker has fashioned his hardest-rocking record in more than a decade.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/music/reviews/10-10-96/OTR/GRAHAM_PARKER.html (206 words)

	Reviews - Backstage Pass - Parker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Parker was tired the night of his solo show at the Bistro in Grand Center.
		The selections from Parker’s 21-song set and 4-song encore were a good representation of a career that spans nearly 30 years and some 18 studio albums.
		Seeing Graham Parker play live, you get the sense he has kept his work ethic as sharp as his talent, a notion he confirmed after the show when I mentioned the largely varying set lists he has brought with him these last few visits to St. Louis.
	www.playbackstl.com /Current/BP/parker.htm (638 words)

	GRAHAM PARKER
		Graham Parker has been on many labels over the years but is one of the finest singer/songwriters to emerge in the late 70's.
		The turn of the century saw Parker taking a turn at writing and he released the book "Carp Fishing On Valium" and the tour diary "The Other Life Of Brian".
		Forsaking regular touring in the US due to overall lack of interest by the public at large, his latest recorded projects have become available directly through the internet.
	www.ear.fm /Encyclopedia%20P/Parker.htm (277 words)

	GRAHAM PARKER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Stick to Me (1977) marked the end of Parker's honeymoon with the critics, despite quality songs like "Problem Child" and "Soul on Ice", and was followed by a ramshackle live album, The Parkerilla, that seemed to have 'contract filler' written all over it.
		Parker's 1979 album, Squeezing Out Sparks, was credited to him alone, although the Rumour were still in place.
		It was also to be Parker's last album with the Rumour, who had already recorded two albums without him and went off to make one more before breaking up.
	pages.eidosnet.co.uk /~johnnymoped/punk/rock/PARKER_GRAHAM.html (933 words)

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