Grant Massey

Grant Massey is a singer/songwriter from Farmersville, Texas. He began playing the guitar at the end of high school, already having experience with the piano, the bass, and the trumpet. By the time he found himself in Marshall, Texas a few years later, songs began to appear, inspired by the frustrations and mysteries of daily happenings.
Around this time he got his hands on T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, causing him to develop a hunger for literature to couple with his hunger for understanding of the world around him. These deeper thoughts began to plumb the depths of his mind causing even more songs to appear as he sat outside and contemplated these heavier things.
Things were beginning to make sense. As he surveyed the landscapes around him, connections with ideas were made. He would look at a bowl of wax apples and see Augustine’s theory of limited good; townsfolk daily interacting transforms into Hermans and Gregg’s theory of the multiple self. Walt Whitman, Karen Horney, and Conrad Aiken were consumed with equal voraciousness and more songs began to spill forth, all seeking to understand the workings of the self and how it operated.
Through it all he decided that man will always seek an explanation for things, a consistency in the world around them. It was at this point Blame it on the Weather was born. It deals with the question “Would it be worth it all?” sifting through fears and institutions and trying to find the extent of hope and courage while maintaining a tongue in cheek attitude.
This music is folk by nature, but flirts with pop and rock while trying to maintain an earthy feel. It keeps a simple structure while trying to grapple not so simple ideas.