if you haven't seen my YouTube page yet:

until i get them up on MY page, please go here:

Message me for specifics:  also check www.myspace.com/mitchelmusso for more.

4/24 - CONCORD, NORTH CAROLINA
5/2 - RIO RANCHO, NEW MEXICO
5/9 - LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
5/10 - BROOMFIELD, COLORADO
5/23 - NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE
5/30 - DARIEN PARK, NEW YORK
5/31 - HERSHEY PAR, PENNSYLVANIA (TENTATIVE)
6/11 - LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 
6/12 - OMAHA, NEBRASKA
7/1 - WASHINGTON DC (TENTATIVE)
7/4 - CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
7/5 - CHICAGO ILLINOIS
7/9 - WILKES BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA
7/10 - ALBANY, NEW YORK
7/11 - ROCHESTER, NEW YORK
7/12 - TORONTO, CANADA
7/16 - JACKSON, NEW JERSEY
 7/17 - SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
7/18 - DALLAS, TEXAS
7/19 - 7/23 - ORLANDO / BAHAMAS - DISNEY CRUISE
8/8 - ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
8/23 - VANCOUVER, CANADA

I get quite a few messages about this -- I am searchable on iTunes, but for a really EASY way to get there, just look riiiight about my TOP friends and see the links I posted; I posted a few of them :)

:) talk soon

Leland

Hey ya'll :)

It's kinda late, so I'm going to keep this short, but I first want to thank the people that have been calling and leaving messages... they really brighten my day!

Someone recently left me a message about being adopted and I often have and respond to messages about my experience in my own life. For me; it's been a truly amazing and happy time, and something that I am extremely thankful for.

I know that sometimes for others that this isn't the case, and that's tough on me to hear - and I know much tougher on the individual going through it -- and I'm sorry for that when it happens. I can't really offer any advice I don't think, being that I don't have any children of my own (but DO want them someday...), but I hope that if you are in a tough situation dealing with your family and finding out the truth about where you come from that you can try your best to embrace whatever the situation is. After all, it is where you came from, and part of who you are - it's a HUGE part of who I am.

Take care,
Leland

This is by Jewel: I thought it deserved a post...

I often get asked about fame. Fame is an unfathomable creature
that shifts shape, and one becomes even more aware of the mythical
creature Fame when in LA. Many people want to be famous here.
Here is what I have learned: Fame does not exist except in the
minds of people. It is not real. It's like the Easter Bunny, or
Disneyland. It is not a real thing. It is not a tree or air or bread. It
is a fantasy that is created and built on clouds in our collective
minds. I guess mostly it reminds me of high school; everyone wants to be
liked and popular. The difference with celebrity is that there is money
to be made at this, and there is an entire industry built around
manufacturing, selling and creating the illusion of celebrity.


I have always felt like an outsider- even in school. I have always
been shy and introverted and watched the 'cool' kids, and I wrote about
everything I saw. It shocked me that these writings led me to fame.
Ty and I often talk about success, and have categorized famous
people in two groups. One group is made of those who wanted to be
excellent at their craft, and by being excellent became successful or
famous as a side effect. For this group, being good at their craft was
the goal. For the other group, fame is the destination, and they simply
see music or sports, or whatever, as their vehicle to fame. When you
meet someone, you can instantly see which of the two groups they fall
in.


People who want to be good at a craft are good listeners. They are
usually humble, confident and secure. They spend most of their time
practicing- not networking. The other group is usually insecure and has
a deep need for attention and to be liked. They usually have big egos
and are somewhat narcissistic and self-centered. They will usually do
anything to be famous. I have been lucky enough to be around a lot of
types of celebrities, and the most truly talented ones have always been
the most open-minded and humble and curious. I found Bob Dylan, Neil
Young, BB King, Sean Penn, Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson, among many
others to be the most interested in young talent and in new ideas. It
has always been the mediocre talent who grandstand and are pompous, try
to dominate conversations and tell you their entire resume and all their
accomplishments within the first 5 minutes of meeting them.


Fame is not some magical transformation. It is simply a heightened
awareness of a person. That's it. It just means suddenly a lot of people
are aware of you that weren't before. There is no metamorphosis that
takes place, unless you are foolish enough to take it personally, in
which case it can warp your mind. Being famous does not mean you are
talented. It doesn't mean you are a good person, it doesn't mean
anything except a lot of people know your face. At the end of the day
your artistic growth has to be guarded privately by the artist, and the
moral integrity of the person must be shepherded by that person alone.


I see so many people get a little bit of fame and start to think
they are a big deal, and they get arrogant and they spend their money
like they are going to be popular forever. But in truth this is a fickle
business with a high turnover and an insatiable appetite for something
new. And there are one thousand young aspiring talents to take your
place. I always tell aspiring artists to work hard, stay humble, have
good manners and save their money. I suggest they spend all their free
time practicing because talent will get recognition and stand out.
Unless you want to be famous for nothing- like someone like Paris
Hilton, who does work hard I think, by networking and constantly being
out and being seen and living such a highly public life. I don't even
think one is better than the other. In fact I always get asked by
reporters if it bothers me that there are people who can't sing that are
famous singers, or people who are famous for just being famous- and the
truth is it doesn't bother me at all. I'm not an art snob- I think there
is room and appetite for it all. Everyone works hard and pays a steep
price for whatever they have, and I don't think those people take money
out of my pocket. I feel lucky that I get to make a living at what I do.
I feel like the luckiest person alive that I get to write and learn for
a living, and I am enjoying the ride and trying to make sure that I am
creating a life I enjoy.


I really struggled with fame at first when I was young and broke
onto the scene. Man, I was not equipped. I was too sensitive and too
introverted and unprepared for the massive level of fame I reached so
quickly. I was never a very shiny, happy, perky, outgoing person. I
wasn't ever the cheerleading personality type. And I found the constant
attention just deafening. I was used to watching people, now they were
watching me back. I felt trapped, like an animal in a petting zoo that
was reduced to sound bites and TV images. No real person fits into such
careful shapes. I certainly didn't. I was raw and unshaped still and
just shocked by what was happening. The idolatry scared me as much as
the haters. Over the years it became easier as I grew more comfortable,
and realized that you could adjust your career to fit you. It could be
on your terms. It helped when I realized my fans would let me be myself
too, and that I didn't ever have to pretend to be something I wasn't. I
could be honest about my shortcomings and my growth, and have a genuine
artistic life, and authentic emotional life. I always looked at
longevity and how to have a long career and how to keep writing well
over a long career.


Many songwriters don't write well after their 20's. I think a lot
of it has to do with lifestyle. They get distracted by fame and stop
learning. That is why I have tried to live a life that feeds an artist
and I have tried to make career decisions that allow longevity.
Arrogance is the death of art because to be arrogant is to think
you have nothing to learn. When you don't learn, there is nothing new to
feed art- so you become unoriginal soon and your art becomes rigid and
lifeless. To be a good artist you have to be sensitive and supple-
something not always easy to maintain with fame, as fame requires a
thick skin to survive usually. You have to keep learning and getting new
information- this is the food that feeds the artist. That is why I go
away between albums and disconnect, or go to a new place with new
surroundings, so that I can fill up and learn and grow.


I don't feel any different now than before I was famous. I still
see the world through the eyes my life has shaped. I am deeply sensitive
and feel the longing and beauty and pain and ugliness that is around us
all. And I am still inspired by words, and by fitting words like puzzle
pieces to describe the indescribable.


When I am on stage it is such an interesting feeling because I can
feel all of you so clearly. In the anonymity of the dark theatre, I can
feel everyone's hearts open, and a flood of information pours in. While
I am singing I feel the energy change and shift and respond and I learn
about everyone even though you are silent. It is very loud and very
clear to me. I feel a deep longing and a deep hope, and how special
everyone is. That sounds corny. It's hard to describe. Each town feels
different slightly. And I love to sift through the feelings that shoot
up at me. I love feeling such a variety of people out there.


Over my career, I am proud that I have managed to bring so many
walks of life together to one room. There are conservatives, rednecks,
bikers, hippies, liberals, gays, Dylan fans in their 60's, dance music
club kids in their 20's, and small children with eager eyes and open
hearts all in the same room, all getting something different out of the
same lyrics.


All of us come together around the same thing- being human and
trying to do the best we can in our own ways. That's what makes us
great. We each peruse our own liberties as we see fit, and I am just so
humbled that you all let me get to know you and feel you in your lives.
I have always seen myself in everyone. I guess my life has taken me from
ranches to project developments to food stamps to caviar parties, from
biker bars to the Vatican, and I see myself in everyone. I feel like
were circumstances different I could have been any of these people, in a
way.


For me the best part of being famous is that it has allowed me to
travel the world and see more than I ever thought I would get to see. It
has allowed me and my pen to travel around the entire world and get to
know revolutionaries and racists and senators and heirs and shopkeepers
and transvestites and see that we are all the same. Truly we are the
same. We are just different expressions of the same thing, and I just
love them all. I have such a passion and compassion for how hard
everyone- each of us- works at being alive, striving for happiness and
love and satisfaction. It's a great journey. It's deeply private, and
yet when we share our stories, it makes the journey seem less lonely.
It's what Neruda and Rilke wrote about. I try to add my scribbles to the
same cause.


So, what is fame? It's lightening that strikes some people. It's
lightening that some people seek. It's luck and timing and hard work.
It's a tawdry flashlight that shines on your soul and reveals to you
your truest character and puts gasoline on your greatest flaws.
It delivers treasures that can add beauty or corrupt you with that same
beauty. But I can promise you a person who is famous is no different
than anyone who reads this. In the end there is only a great life lived,
or a life squandered, whether it was a public life or not. That is
something each of us share.

This is who I'm working with in Nashville, the list grows everyday -- but for now:

Stephony Smith
Shelly Fairchild
Steve Dean
Brian White
Chip Davis
Randy Cantor
Alan Bennett
Greg Everrett
Court Clement
Bethany Dean
Sammi Moore
Hailey Steele
Jason "Slim" Gambill

Please look them up, they are ALL brilliant and I'm humbled to have the opportunity to work with them :) ... THRILLED!

Hey everyone :)

First of all, I'd be lying completely if I weren't to say that I miss my LA friends and family! But I'll be here in Nashville for the next month or so... so I figured that I'd be posting a Nashville VIDEO blog!! :) whoot whoot huh??

Anyway, just "scroll" down and enjoy!

<3 Leland <3

(yeah, i just wrote hearts).

having a cold kinda sucks! it's weird cause when i feel sick, i can't really imagine what feeling fine is like?! is that totally strange? ...anyway, i've tried to just stay home and rest/drink water and lots of it --- haha, like you didn't know how to cure a cold. PS: try this stuff called Occiliococinnium, seriously, it's like some kind of bacteria? tastes like sugar though :)

i hope i feel better soon, i have rehearsals coming up - see ya'll out there!

Hosted By:
The Leland Grant Band

When:
Thursday, January 29, 2009

Where:
The Roxy
9009 Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles
90210

Description:
Leland Grant with a band. Also Candace Devine and a special guest. Good times!!!!!!!

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