Up for auction "Heart of Me" Green River Ordinance Group Signed 10X8 Color Photo. Signers are; Josh Jenkins, Geoff Ice, Denton Hunker, Joshua Wilkerson and Jamey Ice.
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Green River Ordinance is
an American rock band from Fort Worth, Texas, United States. Their name refers to Green River Ordinances,
laws which prohibit door-to-door sales unless the house's owner gives
permission to do so.
Bassist
Geoff Ice and guitarist Jamey Ice are brothers. Early in their career
(circa 2003), the band regularly did opening gigs with Flickerstick in Texas, and by 2005 had toured
with Collective Soul and
played with Eisley and Mutemath, among others. The band's initial releases, a 2005
full-length and a 2007 EP, were both released on the small independent
label For Mona. Their
debut release for Virgin Records, Out
of My Hands, was released in February 2009, and garnered comparisons to
1990s mainstream rock acts such as Sister Hazel Third Eye Blind and Matchbox 20, as well as contemporaries like Augustana and The Fray. Out of My Hands peaked at No. 10 on
the Billboard Heatseekers
chart. The single "Come On" reached No. 17 on the Billboard Adult Top 40 late in 2009; the single "On Your
Own" reached No. 37 on the same chart in 2010.
In
2009 and 2010, GRO saw two Top 40 radio singles, songs on over 20 television
shows ("So You Think
You Can Dance", "The Hills", "The Young and the Restless"),
two music videos on MTV and VH1, as well as tours with several nationally
touring artists, such as Goo Goo Dolls, Collective Soul, Switchfoot, Train, Lifehouse, and American Idol winners David Cook & Kris Allen Billboard Magazine even stated, "Green
River Ordinance has established itself as a pop-rock act to keep an eye on in
2010." GRO's original song "Rise Up" was featured on the AT&T
Team USA Soundtrack (2010) alongside Mariah Carey, 3 Doors Down, Train, and Rascal Flatts. Their Capitol/Virgin Records debut
album Out of My Hands and various singles were featured on
Zune, Walmart.com, AmazonMP3, iTunes, Rhapsody, and Napster as Staff Picks,
Song of the Day, What’s Hot, Track of the Week, and other promotions. GRO left
EMI on August 6, 2010 and 14 days later proceeded to go on tour with Goo Goo
Dolls and Switchfoot. Also, they were featured on every episode of MTV's show
"If You Really Knew Me" and also had their video "On Your
Own" featured after shows during credits on MTV, all of this while being
independent of any label ties. On September 6, 2010, GRO released "The
Morning Passengers - Acoustic Sessions EP" to iTunes only, and it reached
No 3 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart, as well as the No. 39 on Billboard Independent
Albums.