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"Mark Eitzel " was born in the Northern California town of Walnut Creek on January 30, 1959. Eitzel's father was an engineer who worked for the United States Army, and as a consequence his family moved frequently, with the Eitzels living in Okinawa and Taiwan before settling in Great Britain for several years. While in Asia, Eitzel and his older sister became fascinated with pop music, and though Mark had developed a taste for confessional singer/songwriters such as Joan Armatrading and Leonard Cohen while living in the U.K., as a regular reader of New Musical Express he became fascinated with the first wave of punk rock in 1977, and seeing a show by the Damned and the Adverts encouraged him to begin writing songs of his own. (By this time, Eitzel had also embraced and rejected Christianity, and began combating his social awkwardness by drinking heavily.) A few months later, Mark's family returned to the United States and settled in Columbus, Ohio, where Mark enrolled at Ohio State University. At OSU, Eitzel bonded with members of Columbus' tiny punk rock community, and joined a band called the Cowboys. While the Cowboys initially played only covers of well-known punk favorites, in 1980 they cut a single of two original tunes, "Teenage Life" b/w "Supermarket," which became Eitzel's first commercially released recording. One of the most celebrated and idiosyncratic American songwriters of his generation, Mark Eitzel is best known as the leader of the iconic indie rock band American Music Club, who spun beautifully chaotic webs of guitar from Eitzel’s gloomy but compassionate studies of lost souls and alcohol; since striking out on his own, Eitzel has embraced a number of different musical approaches, while his witty but downcast lyrical style has remained constant.
adapted from AllMusic.com, written by Mark Deming.
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