In 1992, Dennis Callaci, a friend of Darnielle's and owner of Shrimper Records, released a tape of Darnielle's songs called Taboo VI: The Homecoming. Throughout his college education, he continued to record music. Darnielle attended Pitzer College from 1991 to 1995, graduating as a double major in Classics and English. Darnielle worked in the psychiatric ward at the Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk, California. For a short time after high school, he lived in Portland, Oregon, where he developed an addiction to intravenous methamphetamine and other hard drugs (as referenced in We Shall All Be Healed).
ĭarnielle attended Claremont High School, located in the Pomona Valley region of Southern California. His childhood love of wrestling would go on to inspire the Mountain Goats' album Beat the Champ. There, he developed a passion for the sport and local wrestlers like Chavo Guerrero Sr. ĭarnielle often attended professional wrestling matches with his stepfather at the Grand Olympic Auditorium. The Mountain Goats' 2005 album The Sunset Tree is dedicated to his stepfather and frequently references the dysfunction of his upbringing. He has written three novels: Wolf in White Van (2014), Universal Harvester (2017), and Devil House (2022).īorn in Bloomington, Indiana, Darnielle grew up in San Luis Obispo and then Claremont, California with an abusive stepfather. John Darnielle ( / d ɑːr ˈ n iː l/ born March 16, 1967) is an American musician, novelist, and actor best known as the primary, and originally sole, member of the American band the Mountain Goats, for which he is the writer, composer, guitarist, pianist, and vocalist.
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