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    Music Review Part 2 Thursday, October 25, 2007 |

    Griffin House-Flying Upside Down

    Please see this little diddy (one of my first posts) for some overall thoughts on my taste in music (and Griffin). In the name of full disclosure, Grif and I went to Miami together. I have some fond memories of sitting in the stairwell of our fraternity house (yea, I was in a fraternity) learning to play guitar together. I still have a cassette tape of some recordings Grif made in said stairwell and gave to me to listen to. Sweetness.

    Griffin is one of those guys that said "screw you real world" and decided to keep playing music after school, because he really liked to. No dreams of fame and fortune. Just "I'd love to make a living (read: be very poor) at this thing. And what do you know...people listened, liked what they heard, and five years later he's making music a lot of folks like.     Case in point: His MySpace page is visited ALOT...like over a million times. Mine? 244 visitors. Comments like "Best New Songwriter" and "Best Artist you haven't heard of yet" are peppering his reviews. Rolling Stones likes him bunches. Bruce Springsteen caught him backstage to say he hadn't taken his cd Homecoming out of his player for a week and a half. Willie Nelson asked him to smoke a joint with him on his bus...

    So last week Grif released his latest album,     Flying Upside Down, last week. It's good, real good. My personal recommendation? Download Homecoming off iTunes, then listen and get a taste of the good stuff. Once you've digested it, download Flying Upside Down and dig in. That way your anticipation will be high. Watch your ears strain to catch every word of "It's Happening Again." Be moved by "The Guy That Says Goodbye."

    Please check out Griffin. I promise you won't be disappointed. If you are, I'll send you the ten bucks you paid.

    -Andrew

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