After a year of touring, traveling, writing, and taking pictures, these four tunes are a little suite I wrote on the move.

The Highest Bough             

Inverness

Valley of Fire

Instrumental 2015 mp3

Ice Rink

Wise Words from Father Denny Buck

At the Wake

Meridian View

The Rebel in the Herringbone

Presented by the Luce Foundation Center, courtesy of Anne K. Wilsey, and by DCMusicDownload, courtesy of Stephanie Williams. Recorded and mixed by Willie Proust. Photo by Mike J. Maguire. Layout by Jonny Grave.

CCRider

Gospel Holdover

Paris, 1947

Jonny Grave is a guitarist, songwriter, singer, bandleader, teacher, musical historian, journalist, and Blues-man from Washington, D.C. Growing up in a musical family, Jonny Grave was introduced to the sounds of American traditional folk music early on.  At age fifteen, he found himself learning slide guitar techniques from old Blues records, and by seventeen he was performing them live. Grave has performed at hundreds of venues from the red dirt floor of Gip's Juke Joint to the red carpet of the Kennedy Center.