There is only one T. Graham Brown; and that uniqueness has made him one of the most enduring popular singers in Nashville.
Seven years since his last album and eight years since his last top-10 radio hit, T. Graham Brown continues to be in demand as a national concert attraction, a songwriter and a studio singer. Once you've heard his drenched-in-emotion voice, you don't forget it - and neither have the thousands who still pack his shows each year.
For them, and for lovers of great "blue-eyed soul" singing everywhere, the gifted "His T-Ness" returns to disc with Wine Into Water. More than a comeback, this collection is a "career record" in every way.
Part R&B, part country, part gospel and all heart, Wine Into Water is like a Southern travelogue.
T. Graham Brown started his Music Row career as a studio singer making song demonstration tapes. But within two years he was signed to Capitol Records. T. Graham Brown catapulted into the country top-10 in 1985. During the next five years Brown ruled the upper reaches of the charts with a dozen hit singles, including such memorable songs as "I Tell It Like It Used To Be," "Darlene," "Come As You Were," "If You Could Only See Me Now" and his Country Music Association award nominated 1990 duet with Tanya Tucker "Don't Go Out."
T. Graham Brown 1986 hit "Hell and High Water" was named Country Single of the Year by Cash Box Magazine. The video for 1987's "Brilliant Conversationalist" cracked the VH-1 hit parade. "Dock of the Bay " became a hit in Germany and "Rock It, Billy" was a success in England. Brown became a Country Music Association award nominee in 1987 and 1989. In 1992, he won a CMA award for Vocal Event of the Year with George Jones's "I Don't Need Your Rocking Chair."
T. Graham Brown career expanded rapidly into other arenas. As an actor he landed roles in the Richard Pryor race-car movie Grease Lightning, the John Schneider science fiction feature The Curse and the David Keith film about Elvis, Heartbreak Hotel.
T. Graham Brown became an in-demand jingle singer for dozens of national products, including Coca-Cola, Kraft Foods, Stroh's Beer, McDonald's, Budweiser and 7-Up. This culminated in his highly successful ad campaign for Taco Bell in the early 1990's. T. Graham Brown not only sang the company's jingles, he also starred in its widely seen "Run For The Border" TV spots.
This album is the way this brilliant singer was meant to be heard. Wine Into Water is a testament to T. Graham Brown's enduring ability to span styles and categories with ease. Long may he sing.
