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JAMESTOWN — Graham Good’s love of music sparked in his 7th-grade year at Deer Creek Middle School. That year, he took the class “Intro to Typing/Experimental Bands.”
That combination of subjects spread throughout the school year. The first semester focused on improving students’ skills on a computer keyboard, & the second semester allowed students to learn concert band instruments.
Good tried trumpet and French horn before settling on the tuba. The teacher and band director, impressed with Good’s tuba playing, encouraged him to join the school band. He sat with one other tuba player and an electric bass player in the band, and he found himself drawn to the bass.
During his time at Colorado State University, now having experience on the bass and on acoustic guitar, Good wrote songs in his dorm room. Meeting a few friends at a local funk jam, they invited him over to jam with them on his bass.
Good told his friends he had some acoustic songs and suggested playing them with the group. Once they played the songs together, Good felt an instant connection to the group, realizing how much he wanted to be a singer, songwriter, and band frontman.
Good organized practices and booked gigs for this new group, writing lyrics and setlists during his marketing classes to prepare for more performances. He also continued sharpening his skills in songwriting in his final two years of college, attending a songwriter’s guild and writing a new song every Wednesday.
The original lineup recorded a record during their college years, simply known as The Painters. The night before their very first paid gig, the group stayed at the hotel where Good worked at the time and headed to the drummer’s apartment to practice.
One night, unlike every other night, the apartment noticeably smelled like paint. When the drummer emerged in a white shirt, Good commented that he looked like a painter, and the drummer said, “We are the painters!” The name stuck.
The lineup has always been fluid, but Graham Good has always been the core of the group. The original lineup parted ways after graduating from university. The lineup recorded a record before graduating as a memento of their time as a college band.
Good’s brother, a student at the University of Northern Colorado, sent the record to a mutual connection, who happened to be in the school’s music program. This mutual connection brought a new group of musicians to Good, cementing the band now known as Graham Good & the Painters.
The current lineup consists of Good, Matt Brown on drums, Lance Ruby on guitar, Cameron Collums on bass, Adam Bell on saxophone, and Hudson Adams on trumpet. Other musicians also occasionally hop in, including Eric Luba and Chris Bell on keys.
Good loves the idea of music as a form of painting, with instruments as brushes and sound as paint. He also loves having a band name with an ampersand in the title, a la Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.
Over his life, Good has learned bass, guitar, drums, mandolin, and banjo, allowing him to build demos of songs on his own (particularly during the COVID-19 lockdown period). He is the primary songwriter of the group, bringing in acoustic guitar and vocal songs for the band to arrange.
For Good, songwriting is like a meditation. He loves getting lost in the world of music and letting everything else fade away, and he finds his key to freedom through creation and focusing completely on writing.
Good prioritizes writing songs from a place of positivity and gratitude, an attitude he has always embraced. He hopes that the songs he writes allow people “to help people believe in themselves, to get inspired, to live life to the fullest, and to take action and chase their dreams.”
Graham Good and the Painters will be performing at the Jamestown Mercantile, located at 108 Main Street in Jamestown, on Friday, September 12, 2025, starting at 7 p.m. To learn more about Graham Good’s musical efforts, head to grahamgoodmusic.com.
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