Welcome to the Radio Gone Blog

Every song starts somewhere.

Sometimes it begins with a memory. Sometimes it starts with a line scribbled in a notebook, a guitar riff that refuses to go away, a late-night conversation, a half-remembered town, or a character who feels too real to ignore. For Radio Gone, the songs live in those places — somewhere between Americana, rock and roll, country grit, and the kind of storytelling that comes from watching life closely.

This blog is where we’ll pull back the curtain a little.

Radio Gone is the songwriting and recording collaboration of John Graham and Mick Dalla-Vee, built around songs that carry stories of love, loss, work, family, humor, redemption, regret, and the strange turns life takes along the way. The music has one foot in classic rock and another in roots-driven Americana, but at the heart of it all is the story. These are songs about people, places, choices, consequences, and the moments that stay with you.

Here, we’ll share the stories behind the songs from Hola Mexico, the upcoming Hurricane album, and whatever comes next. We’ll talk about where the lyrics came from, how the music took shape, what happened in the studio, and why certain songs needed to be written in the first place. Some posts will be about songwriting. Some will be about recording. Some will be about the characters, memories, road stories, and real-world sparks that helped bring the music to life.

Think of this blog as the room behind the stage — part notebook, part conversation, part confession, part road map. It’s a place for the rough edges, the late nights, the stories behind the stories, and the songs that keep talking long after the last chord fades.

Welcome to Radio Gone.