Nashville, Tennessee
27 Years Old
Singer-Songwriter

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"And if you should survive to 105, think of all you'll derive out of being alive."

BIOGRAPHY

Listeners who have been charmed by Landon Pigg's gorgeous, wistful "Falling In Love At a Coffee Shop"—a track that's exploded since being featured in a late-2007 "A Diamond Is Forever" campaign (it's been downloaded more than 225,000 times on iTunes and streamed more than almost 600,000 times on MySpace)—might be surprised to learn that the singer-songwriter's first-ever song featured lyrics about the far less sensitive topics of Nintendo 64s and deodorant. The 24-year-old Nashville native has refined his songwriting technique over the years, but his offbeat aesthetic hasn't been lost in translation.

Nashville native Pigg started penning his own songs in high school, inspired by "crushes that were devastating," and before long he was turning out two EPs (the Magritte-inspired This Is a Pigg and Connect Sets) and working on his first full-length for RCA, 2006's LP.

Pigg cryptically explains that the dozen tracks on LP are "songs that I wrote for my friends that they didn't know I wrote for them." Opener "Can't Let Go," an aching look at a fizzled relationship, recalls Coldplay with its soaring vocals and powerfully strummed guitars. Pigg shows off why his limber tenor has been compared to Thom Yorke's on the somber "Sailed On," a track that soundtracked an intense moment on Grey's Anatomy: "I got to usher somebody on into the afterlife," Pigg explains.

"Coffee Shop" will finally be released on disc on Pigg's forthcoming EP, Coffee Shop, a batch of reworked songs and a new track with what Pigg describes as "cinematic vibes." After touring behind LP for two years and finding new meaning in its songs, Pigg decided to jump back into the studio to strip some of his favorite tunes to their core, focusing on lyrics and melody.

The intimate EP will help fans get a better look into the mind of Pigg and his whimsical ways. Take, for instance, his record collection, which is entirely dependent on the requirements of his Honda (it only plays cassettes). "I kind of depend on chance a little bit. A lot of my music has been thrift store finds, whether it's the Sleepless in Seattle soundtrack or the Smiths," he says, thumbing through a pile of tapes. "I'm a big fan of chance, going where the wind blows me and finding myself. The situations that I can't predict are more fun than the ones I could predict."

Landon is currently spending the summer working on his 2nd full length album, to be released in early 2009.

LEVEL

professional

GENRES

Rock , Singer/Songwriter

PUBLISHING COMPANY

EMI Music Publishing, major publishing company

Contact

Management: Nettwerk Management
Publishing: EMI Music Publishing
Label: RCA Records
Booking: ICM

P.R.O.

ASCAP

INSTRUMENTS

drums / acoustic guitar / electric guitar / vocals

INFLUENCES

Harry Nilsson, Led Zeppelin, and the guitar solo from "Michelle" by the most famous band in the world

DAY JOB

Urban Hiking

I AM INTERESTED IN

in co writing in person
in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv

I WRITE:

For a living

I Also Write:
by myself
for myself

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

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SONG PLACEMENTS

Grey's Anatomy, Brothers & Sisters, A Diamond Is Forever commercial

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