Griffin House interviewed at SSv
Great interview with Griffin House at Stereo Subversion. Griffin is one of my favorite songwriters out there. There’s an originality and honest writing that I think is rare.
Here’s an excerpt that relates to my last post, regarding honing your skills:
Griffin: I just joined this songwriting group with Bob Schneider and some other writers – right now Sarah and Sean from Nickel Creek are in it – and we all get together and write, sending in a song every week based on a prompt we’re given.
SSv: You mean songwriting homework?
Griffin: Yeah, we have to turn one in every week, it keeps us going. I’ve written my entire new record from that process. I’ve been amazed just how much having a prompt, an assignment, can help keep you focused.
It’s inspiring that artists that I admire struggle with the same things and find the need to flex the creative muscle based on assignment. It’s easy to believe from afar that someone with “natural talent” simply produces solely by “muse.”
If you haven’t heard his stuff and you enjoy gritty-alt-country-con-folk-pop, pop to his Myspace page and take a listen.
