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Dan Grissom

About Me

I am a painter and musician that lives in Austin, TX.

I play and sing in an experimental folkish band called "some say Leland.".
www.myspace.com/somesayleland
www.somesayleland.com

I also occasionaly have other recording and live projects with other musicians and solo. If I'm not painting or playing music, I'm probably sleeping, or eating, or showering, or working, or reading, or watching a movie, or visiting friends, or dead...

I also co-host the Open Stage at the Cactus Cafe with Graham Weber on Monday nights from 7:30 to around 10:30. So come and say hello and play a few songs and I'll play a few too.

You can also look at some of my paintings on here and on my website.
www.dangrissomart.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 24/05/2005
Band Members: If I were creating the world I wouldn't mess about with butterflies and daffodils. I would have started with lasers, eight o'clock, Day One!
Influences: chronologically (sort of) - field recordings, woody guthrie, mississippi john hurt, hank williams, moondog, "big" tiny little, bob dylan, johnny cash, willie nelson, the beatles, louis armstrong, thelonious monk, charles mingus, keith jarrett, nick drake, neil young, james taylor, joni mitchell, leonard cohen, tom waits, iron & wine, will oldham, bonnie 'prince' billy, palace brothers, beck, m. ward, wilco, sufjan stevens, andrew bird, feist, radiohead, joanna newsom, bright eyes, smog, adem, phosphorescent, fleet foxes, dirty projectors, etc.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

REVIEW of solo EP

Hey all,There was a review written for my recent solo EP on austinsound.net.  It's a good'un.  It makes me feel special.  Here it is copied and pasted for your reading pleasure.by Zoe N...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:04:00 GMT

closed eyelids on the open road

Well about a week ago, I got back from a ten day journey across a pretty good chunk of the United States.  I don't feel like writing about everything that happened because that would take too lon...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:13:00 GMT

I done made myself an EP

Hi Friends,So I just finished my solo EP a few days ago. Most of these songs you've probably never heard before, unless you hang out in my closet without me knowing it.http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/a...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:05:00 GMT

HOT DAMN!!

So I just got tickets to see Tom Waits in Knoxville, TN, and I am excited. As many of you know, Tom Waits is by far my most favoritestest musician/songwriters of all time.  And as some of you als...
Posted by on Fri, 16 May 2008 07:24:00 GMT

today

I am calloused, stone-surfaced.  A building stone without a purpose, or a place where I can hold myself high. I'm hunched over, picking flowers, that shrivel when I touch them.  Am I evil fo...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:08:00 GMT

free writing for ron

I did some free writing today in a message to ron and I liked it and thought I'd post it as a bulliten.  Here is is: SHIT! When will the mouse-houses of the world shake their trashcan eyes in the...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:55:00 GMT

life is conspiring to make me look foolish

I'm convinced. When I was a kid I went through a phase in which I thought that life was a movie of some sort and I was the only person who wasn't in on it.  I sometimes thought that ma...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:29:00 GMT

some say Leland in the onion!

some say Leland in the onion!Hey everybody, check this out. Somebody at the Onion wrote about my band "some say Leland." There's also a little bit about a band that 3 of us recently joined called "Rev...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:33:00 GMT

about Jena, my hometown

As some of you may know, I am from Jena, Louisiana, which, as more of you may know is now the center of an enormous racial issue.Basically, to sum it up quickly, racial tension at school between a gro...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:46:00 GMT

thing I've enjoyed recently. yes another list.

I've been doing these lists of things that make me happy, and I just realized that I haven't done one in a while. So here goes.- corn- vicks plants- making progress on the record- not making progress...
Posted by on Sun, 13 May 2007 23:00:00 GMT