{"id":2917,"date":"2011-08-01T23:20:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T06:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2917"},"modified":"2011-08-01T23:20:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T06:20:31","slug":"graham-stookey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/08\/graham-stookey\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAHAM STOOKEY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2918\" title=\"Graham-Stookey-QandA\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Graham-Stookey-QandA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Graham-Stookey-QandA.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Graham-Stookey-QandA-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>GRAHAM STOOKEY<\/h2>\n<p><strong>HOMETOWN:<\/strong> Littleton, Colo.<br \/>\n<strong>INFLUENCES:<\/strong> Lenny Kravitz, John Mayer, Stevie Ray Vaughan<br \/>\n<strong>ALBUM:<\/strong> <em>The Basement Tracks<\/em>, out now<br \/>\n<strong>WEBSITE:<\/strong> stookeymusic.com<\/p>\n<p>Graham Stookey took piano lessons as a child, but he truly found his calling when at age 13 he saw a show by acoustic guitar master Phil Keaggy. \u201cAfter that I decided I wanted to play the guitar,\u201d he remembers. \u201cI enrolled in guitar lessons from an excellent teacher, and my journey as a musician began.\u201d He began writing songs in his parents\u2019 basement, and eventually posted a video online of one of his originals\u2014an event that led to what he calls \u201cthe insanity that is now my life.\u201d Within four months \u201cJonah\u201d had attracted more than 270,000 YouTube viewers. The attention earned him an appearance on <em>The Oprah Winfrey Show<\/em>, during which he met and ably jammed with one of his idols, Lenny Kravitz. Stookey recently released a digital-only four-song EP, aptly dubbed <em>The Basement Tracks<\/em>, and is currently at work\u00a0on his full-length debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAHAM STOOKEY HOMETOWN: Littleton, Colo. INFLUENCES: Lenny Kravitz, John Mayer, Stevie Ray Vaughan ALBUM: The Basement Tracks, out now WEBSITE: stookeymusic.com Graham Stookey took piano lessons as a child, but he truly found his calling when at age 13 he saw a show by acoustic guitar master Phil Keaggy. \u201cAfter that I decided I wanted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[83],"tags":[2242,1634,2243,2244,10160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2919,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions\/2919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}