My bud, Steve Griswold asked me if I would write a brief bio of him for PR purposes.

Steve is one of the finest singer-songwriters..persons...I have ever met...My version is totally unlike what you would find in a package with 8x10 glossies, so Steve probably can't use it, but I have a need to share it here with y’all, for your own good.

Steven N. "Griz" Griswold, no relation to Clark, was, as I think, born and raised, as I know, in Northern California. OK — mid-motherlode country, Sierra foothills. Good place to start. He was from day one a great kid. Athletic. A winner: He was a Champ kid Midget Car racer even though he was not a midget. He grew up straight and strong, but

— then he experimented with the dark side. He learned to almost play the guitar, and decided to become a punk musician.

At age 19, punk that he was, he was headlining (Saturday night, no less) at The Catalyst, a world-renowned club in Santa Cruz, CA, in a band called "Three Left Standing." When he realized the band outnumbered the audience (just joking) he determined to adapt himself to something more civilized, more evolved, more country, to wit: Cow Punk. This led him to Woody Guthrie and Jimmy Rodgers, and all the real cow punks.

He got that down, then he wanted to be a honky-tonker, and write slice-of-life songs of his own, and play music in bars, and have a band. It wasn't egoism, or damn foolishness, just a great need you get to do something you are good at. He is currently a honky tonk musician/band leader par excellence. Maybe better even than that midget car racer:

Great songs, great vocals, great dialog... Griz is a bona fide goodern.

Larry Hosford
Aka Lorenzo