Wayne Graham

What do you do when you no longer identify with the place you call home? Wayne Graham—the band guided by brothers Kenny and Hayden Miles—is the product of Whitesburg, Kentucky, a small town of fewer than 2,000 souls on the extreme eastern end of the state, almost in western Virginia. That’s where they grew up, where they learned to play music from their family, where they served as the rhythm section for their father’s small church, where they started making music together in a band with an unusual moniker, and it’s where Hayden still lives. “Our music is the way it is because we’re from here,” he says. “It’s very specifically Kentucky.”