Graham Maby is a bass guitar

Bass guitar

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 player. He has recorded and toured with Joe Jackson

Joe Jackson (musician)

Joe Jackson is an English musician and singer-songwriter now living in Berlin, whose five Grammy Award nominations span from 1979 to 2001...

 since his first album

Album

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, appearing on most of Jackson's albums and tours. He has continued to record and tour with Jackson even while working with other artists.

In the early '90s he toured with Graham Parker

Graham Parker

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, Garland Jeffreys

Garland Jeffreys

Garland Jeffreys is a part African-American, and Puerto Rican American, singer and songwriter, transversing the musical genres of rock and roll, reggae, blues and soul.-Career:...

, the Silos

Silos (band)

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, and Darden Smith, among others. In 1996, Maby joined They Might Be Giants

They Might Be Giants

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 recording and touring with them. From 1998 until 2002 he recorded and toured with Natalie Merchant

Natalie Merchant

Natalie Anne Merchant is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She joined the alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs in 1981 and left it to begin her solo career in 1993.-Early life:...

's band. Maby has also appeared on recordings

Sound recording and reproduction

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 with Marshall Crenshaw

Marshall Crenshaw

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, Joan Baez

Joan Baez

Joan Chandos Baez is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician and a prominent activist in the fields of human rights, peace and environmental justice....

, Freedy Johnston

Freedy Johnston

Freedy Johnston is a New York City-based singer-songwriter originally from Kinsley, Kansas.Having scored several minor hits since the early 1990s, Johnston's songs are often about troubled loners, and cover topics like heartbreak, alienation and disappointment...

, Ian Hunter

Ian Hunter (singer)

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, Regina Spektor

Regina Spektor

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 and Dar Williams

Dar Williams

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.

Along with playing bass, Maby also produced

Record producer

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  several tracks

Song

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 on Johnston's 1992 album, Can You Fly

Can You Fly

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. He can be seen in the 1986 movie "Peggy Sue Got Married" as a member of Marshall Crenshaw's band.

He has two children, Claire and Pierce.

His first born son Christopher, also an aspiring musician and talented actor, died in 1998.

Discography

With Joe Jackson:

• Look Sharp!
• I'm the Man
• Beat Crazy
• Jumpin' Jive
• Night and Day
• Mike's Murder
• Body and Soul
• Live 1980-86
• Blaze of Glory
• Laughter & Lust
• Night Music
• Summer in the City
• Night and Day II
• Volume 4
• Afterlife
• Rain

With They Might Be Giants:

• John Henry
• Why Does The Sun Shine? (EP)
• Back To Skull
• Factory Showroom
• Severe Tire Damage
• Working Undercover For The Man

With Natalie Merchant:

• Ophelia
• Live in New York City
• Motherland
• The House Carpenter's Daughter

With Freedy Johnston:

• Can You Fly
• Unlucky
• This Perfect World
• Never Home
• Right Between the Promises

With Marshall Crenshaw:

• Mary Jean and Nine Others
• Good Evening
• My Truck Is My Home
• What's In The Bag?

With Ian Hunter:

• Shrunken Heads

With Joan Baez:

• Bowery Songs

With Dar Williams:

• The Green World

With Regina Spektor:

• Soviet Kitsch

With Chris Stamey:

• It's Alright
• Fireworks

With Darden Smith:

• Little Victories
• Deep Fantastic Blue

With Henry Lee Summer:

• Henry Lee Summer
• I've Got Everything

With Billy Simons:

• Music For The Motion Picture

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