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Biography
No footnotes|date=July 2011Infobox musical artist | name = Griffin House| image = griffinhouse12.jpg| caption =| background = solo_singer| Born = April 21, 1980| origin = Springfield, Ohio|Springfield , Ohio | instrument = Singing, guitar| genre = Folk rock|Folk , Pop music|pop/rock , acoustic music|acoustic , Adult album alternative|adult alternative | occupation = Musician, songwriter| years_active = 2001-present| label = Nettwerk America , Evening Records|Evening | website = URL| http://www.griffinhousemusic.com/ Griffin House (born April 21, 1980) was born and raised in Springfield, Ohio . His father worked in a tire shop and his mother helped place children with foster families. In high school, the athletically-gifted House landed a role in a musical and was surprised to learn that he had a natural talent for singing. House bought his first guitar for $100 from a friend, turned down a golf scholarship to Ohio University and instead went to Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and started to teach himself how to play the guitar and write songs.
House began writing and recording and issued his first independent release, Upland , in 2003. His music attracted attention from Nettwerk , a Vancouver-based management company and record label, and House partnered with the label's American branch to issue Lost & Found in 2004. In August 2004, on CBS Sunday Morning , music journalist Bill Flanagan (MTV/VH1) raved about Lost and Found , putting the newcomer on his short list of the best emerging songwriters in the U.S. “I bought House’s CD after a show in New York City,” said Flanagan, “and this never happens: I took it home and must have listened to it 20 times that weekend. I was knocked out.”
Several self-released albums followed, and in 2008 House released Flying Upside Down , produced by Jeff Trott and featuring Mike Campbell (musician)|Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench . House has released the majority of his records on his imprint label, Evening Records . House has toured extensively, opening for artists such as Ron Sexsmith , Patti Scialfa , Josh Ritter , John Mellencamp , Mat Kearney , and The Cranberries . Since 2007 House has been a national headliner.
He lives in Nashville, Tennessee .
Discography
No More Crazy Love Songs (2002)
:#"Need Love in the Middle of the Day" :#"Tom's Song" :#"No More Crazy Love Songs" :#"Now I Feel Fine" :#"Heaven Now" :#"Emma Bee" :#"Kate" :#"Miner" :#"Just in Time" :#"Rosemary Blue" :#"Thee"
Upland (2003, Evening Records)
:#"Waiting on Rain" :#"No Instructions" :#"The Way I Was Made" :#"Tell Me a Lie" :#"Waste Another Day" :#"Broken" :#"sic|hide=y|Volks|wagon" :#"Outside My Mind" :#"Judas" :#"Lay Down in Your Fields" :#"Missed My Chance"
Lost & Found (2004, Nettwerk America)
:#"Amsterdam" :#"Ah Me" :#"Tell Me a Lie" :#"Waste Another Day" :#"Waterfall" :#"Liberty Line" :#"The Way I Was Made" :#"Why Won't You Believe? " :#"Just a Dream" :#"Missed My Chance" :#"New Day"
House of David, Volume One EP (2005)
:#"Crazy for You" :#"Sinner" :#"Say I Never" :#"Traveling Thru America" :#"One at a Time" :#"Only Love Remains"
House of David, Volume Two EP (2005)
:#"To You Someday" :#"Skin" :#"Lay Down in Your Fields" :#"New York Times" :#"Show Me Yourself"
Homecoming (2006, Evening Records)
:#"Dance with Me" :#"Never Again" :#"Downtown Line" :#"Czech Republic" :#"Mirage" :#"Burning Up the Night" :#"Live to be Free" :#"Ordinary Day" :#"Lead Me On" :#"The Guy That Says Goodbye to You is Out of His Mind" :#"'Cause I Miss You" :#"Only If You Need Me" :#"Go Out on My Own"
:#"Better Than Love" :#"I Remember (It’s Happening Again)" :#"Let Me In" :#"One Thing" :#"The Guy That Says Goodbye to You Is Out of His Mind" :#"Live To Be Free" :#"Lonely One" :#"Heart of Stone" :#"Hanging On (Tom’s Song)" :#"Flying Upside Down" :#"When the Time Is Right" :#"Good for You" :#"Waiting for the Rain to Come Down"
42 and a half minutes with Griffin House (2009)
(B-sides and Commentary) :# "Hudson Ohio" :# "All I’ve Ever Known" :# "Thalweg" :# "So Wrong, So Right" :# "An Uninspiring Stretch of Road" :# "Parliament Lights" :# "San Quentin" :# "Murder in the First" :# "The Waiting" :# "Time" :# "Covenant" :# "I Won’t Leave" :# "Self Diagnosis" :# "Damn Day in My Shoes" :# "No Deal Devil" :# "Not For Sale" :# "Hangin’ At The Studio" :# "Give a Little Love" :# "Last Thought"
The Learner (2010)
:#"If You Want To" :#"River City Lights" :#"Standing at the Station" :#"Just Another Guy" :#"She Likes Girls" :#"Never Hide" :#"Rule the World" :#"Gotta Get Out" :#"Feels So Right" :#"Let My People Go" :#"Native" :#"Coming Down the Road"
Popular culture
He recorded a cover of the Jackson Browne song, " These Days (Jackson Browne song)|These Days " for the Everwood soundtrack album. Both that song and "Amsterdam" were later featured in the show.
Nettwerk, House's sometimes-label, released a compilation called http://web.archive.org/web/20070222204402/ http://www.nettwerk.com/contest/LoveHappens/ Love Is A Mixtape as a free internet download for Valentine's Day of 2007, featuring other artists such as Barenaked Ladies and Chantal Kreviazuk . His contribution was the Homecoming cut, "The Guy That Says Goodbye To You Is Out Of His Mind".
His song "Waterfall" was featured in 2007 Rembrandt Oral Health commercial, nationally aired.
His song "Just a Dream" appeared in Rescue Me (TV series)|Rescue Me .
His song "Better than Love" was featured in Season 5 of One Tree Hill (TV series)|One Tree Hill and in the film Not Since You (2009) and the Japanese/American movie Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
His song "When the Time Is Right" was featured in List of A Gifted Man episodes|the sixth episode of A Gifted Man .
External links
http://www.griffinhousemusic.com GriffinHouseMusic.com - Official Website
http://griffinhousemusic.com/bio.html Profile by Benjamin Poston
http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/bio/0,,2943591,00.html#bio Biography on ArtistDirect
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php? storyId=89339170 NPR Interview - Griffin House on NPR's World Cafe
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