Griffin House returns to Eddie's Attic

The Nashville songwriter plays Atlanta more than anywhere else in our records. On Sunday he's back in the Decatur room built for listening.

At Eddie's Attic, the regulars will tell you about the room's main rule before anyone else does: phones off, and actually listen. For a songwriter like Griffin House, whose career is built on carefully written songs, that rule is the reason to come. On Sunday, Nov. 8, he's back in the second-floor room off Decatur Square for a 6 p.m., all-ages show, according to the venue's calendar.

He isn't from here. House was raised in Springfield, Ohio, and found music while studying at Miami University in Oxford. But Atlanta has become something like a second home: in On at 8's records, no market has hosted him more often, with 24 shows here, more than anywhere else he tours. Sunday's show is a return visit, and in a room this size, many of the people there will have seen him before.

House's recording career started on a Nettwerk label in 2004 with *Lost & Found*. He later signed with RCA for *Flying Upside Down*. His wider breakthrough came in 2009, with an appearance on *The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson* and a following for "The Guy That Says Goodbye to You Is Out of His Mind," a song that kept spreading through word of mouth long after it was released. More recently he made The Tides, a five-song EP with Grammy-winning producer Jacquire King. We found no announcement of a new 2026 record, so expect a set drawn from twenty years of songs instead of a single new album.

Phones off, and actually listen.

The venue suits him. Eddie's Attic has been a listening room for songwriters since 1991, when Eddie Owen opened a bare second-floor space just off the square. It has kept its reputation by programming a lot, with hundreds of shows a year, and by holding the audience to its rule. Atlanta Magazine credits the room with launching a thousand singer-songwriters, naming John Mayer, Sugarland and the Civil Wars. Jennifer Nettles has publicly credited the Attic with helping Sugarland get started. Shawn Mullins, who lives in Decatur, chose it for a record release party because, as he put it, people come there to listen instead of talk.

The listening rule matters for a Griffin House show. He's a singer-songwriter and storyteller, and a room that listens suits that.

Sunday's show starts early, at 6 p.m., so you can have dinner on the square and still be home at a reasonable hour on a school night. The room is small and tickets are limited, so buy them ahead. Ticket links are on the Eddie's Attic calendar.

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