Adam's Road

Jay Graham-Vocals, Guitar

James Langdon Graham is a native Floridian, born in Gainesville in 1978. His family moved to Winter Garden, FL when he was five. He lived in the heart of what was, at the time, a thriving citrus landscape—and just down the road from Disney World (“The Happiest Place on Earth”).

Jay showed artistic talents at an early age, and by middle school was very interested in drawing comic book characters. Around the same time, he began home schooling, and his artistic interest began to shift in the fine arts direction. Throughout the next several years he dabbled in a combination of non-traditional and public schooling methods. Jay finally earned his high school diploma from the adult high school program at Seminole Community College in Sanford, FL.

It was during this period that he explored the broad path of the world. Drugs and alcohol were taking their toll. He attended Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio for one year, and then decided to move back to Florida. Returning home, his interest had almost totally shifted to making music.

However, his increasing struggles with drugs and alcohol made it more and more difficult to deal with everyday life. In 2001, shortly after the World Trade Center disaster, Jay called out to God for deliverance. And 3 days later God gave Jay an ultimatum: “Keep using drugs, or follow Me!” When Jay heard the call of The Good Shepherd he dropped the life of substance abuse and didn’t look back! He praises God for this miraculous and instantaneous healing.

It was around this time that Jay ran into LDS (Mormon) missionaries on the sidewalk. Their church’s name, “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” led him to believe that this was the way to discipleship. But being baptized into the LDS religion only exchanged a previous set of vices for another, and the law-based constructs of man turned the screws on him.

During the four years of his membership, he made numerous LDS friends—most of whom were serving missions for the LDS Church at the time. Fortunately, one of them was Micah Wilder, who was going through the difficult transformation of becoming a Born-again Christian while serving a Mormon mission. Micah shared the true Gospel of Grace with Jay. And through this new understanding based on the Biblical Word, his scales of religious blindness fell away.

It was only after this experience that the work God had begun in Jay’s life by healing him from his addictions was completed. Through the Word of God he came to the understanding that the saving Grace of Jesus is a free gift—and that as John says, “If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed” (John 8:36). Through God’s grace the connections that he had made during his time in Mormonism also made the formation of the Adam’s Road band possible. Praise God!

33 year-old Jay (handsome, oldest, and the only single band member) is a guitarist and vocalist for the band. A good sport, Jay is teased at times by some church pastors, who have advertised to their congregations his “availability” as “The Single One.” 

Become friends with Jay on Facebook: Jay Graham Facebook

Email Jay: jay@adamsroadband.com