“Pierce Pettis doesn’t write mere songs, he writes literature...End to end the songwriting is brilliant...Pierce Pettis albums are events in my listening. His writing just gets better all the time and his singing is marvelous, wry and warm..." Sing Out!
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_______________During his long career Pierce Pettis has been a writer at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Alabama, recorded for Fast Folk Musical Magazine in New York, won the prestigious New Folk competition for songwriting at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas, and was a staff songwriter at Polygram and Universal Music Publishing in Nashville. He has received numerous songwriting awards including a 1999 Country Music Award from ASCAP for You Move Me --co-written with Gordon Kennedy and recorded by Garth Brooks on his album, Sevens.
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Albums: 1st independent release in 1985 (Moments). Signed with Windham Hill/High Street (BMG) 1989-1994 --three albums (While the Serpent Lies Sleeping, Tinseltown, Chase the Buffalo). Signed with Compass Records 1996-present --four albums (Making Light of It, Everything Matters, State of Grace, Great Big World). Sessions for next release planned for early 2008.
