The debut CD, "Waitin' On Sunday", produced by Tim Lorsch, will be released in the fall of 2009. All songs by Amanda Pearcy.
The players on the recordings are:
Mike Daly - pedal steel guitar; Ron de la Vega - upright bass; Mickey Grimm - drums, percussion; Tim Lorsch - violin, baritone violin, cello, mandolin; Scott Neubert - acoustic guitar, dobro; Amanda Pearcy - vocal, acoustic guitar; Rick Plant - electric guitar; Gene Rabbai- organ; Jeff Taylor - accordion
Rhythm section recorded by Scott Neubert at Smash Recording, Nashville, TN; Vocal and overdubs recorded by Tim Lorsch, Nashville, TN; Mixed and Mastered by Bradley Hartman at Trace Sound, Franklin, TN; Produced by Tim Lorsch
Previous Perfromance Venues Include:
Florida:
WUWF RadioLive with Ellis Paul & Tom Kimmel, destin
Frank Brown International Songwriters' Festival, perdido key
Silver Moon Cafe, perdido key
Georgia:
The Swallow at the Hollow, roswell
Louisiana:
Neutral Ground Coffeehouse, new orleans
WTUL 91.5 fm, new orleans
North Carolina:
Feed & Seed, fletcher (asheville)
Tennessee:
The Acoustic Coffeehouse, johnson city
TEXAS:
ArtZ Rib House, austin
Cafe Caffeine, austin
Cafe Mundi, austin
Cedar Street Courtyard, austin
Chain Drive, austin
Dominican Joe Coffeehouse, austin
Flipnotics, austin
Freddie's Place, austin
Genuine Joe Coffeehouse, austin
The Hideout Coffee House, austin
Irie Bean Coffee Bar, austin
Java Lounge at Austin Java, austin
Mama Fu's, austin
Momo’s, austin
Mozart's Coffee Roasters, austin
Threadgill's "Old No. 1", austin
Thunderbird Coffee, austin
Waterloo Ice House, austin
Webb House Concerts, austin
The Labyrinth Walk Coffee House -opened for The Laws, dallas
The Labyrinth Walk Coffee House -opened for Albert & Gage, dallas
Anderson Fair, houston
Riley's Tavern, hunter
The Oaks, manor
Crossroads Coffeehouse & Music Co., winnsboro
Virginia:
Blacksburg Farmers Market, blacksburg
Gillie’s, blacksburg
Peace Thru the Arts House Concert, blacksburg
Cafe del Sol, floyd
West Virginia:
Lake Floyd Concerts, clarksburg
The Purple Fiddle, thomas
Influences
old black & white movies, roosters inside city limits, cicadas and window units in the summers
Sounds Like
well here's what one reviewer thinks:
"Amanda is musically somewhere between Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton to my ears. Her mood is all Emmylou, but her voice has some Dolly in it. If Lisa Hannigan was raised in the South, not in Ireland, she'd probably sound like Amanda."
Review of Momo's performance on 10/27/08 by Tyler John Arnold, MohawkRadio.com:
"Amanda is musically somewhere between Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton to my ears. Her mood is all Emmylou, but her voice has some Dolly in it. If Lisa Hannigan was raised in the South, not in Ireland, she'd probably sound like Amanda. Accompanied only by her acoustic guitar, you can focus on Amanda's voice and lyrics...the lyrics about failed marriages, bars, and a vengeful God are generally quality work. Amanda obviously knows country music, and plays it straight, but the stories lean toward the outlaw category. I kept imagining the production on Willie Nelson's Teatro. She will be a solid performer and songwriter..."
My first guitar lesson was in the late summer of '05. I don't know why I made the effort at that time, more than some other, to get the lesson really. I had never studied music before other than waitin' tables in, and frequenting, live music venues in Houston and Austin. But life had shifted again. My son was getting older but at the same time I wasn't necessarily getting free-er. Both of my parents had passed. I pulled out my late husband's guitar and got after the work of finally feeding my soul.
I was raised in Houston, the youngest of four with lots of years between me and my siblings (the oldest being my brother with cerebral palsy at 13 yrs my senior), by a motherless mother and a fatherless father in an alcoholic home. Although I yearned to express myself creatively in a musical way during my childhood, it just didn't happen.
In what feels like another life time ago, we made our home in the Lost Pines of Bastrop, TX, just east of Austin, where I'd hang cloth diapers out on the line to dry and, on the weeks he worked the day shift, my husband would leave before the sun came up to go to the rig. He worked seven days a week as a derrick man (or as Sam Baker put it in a line from one of his songs, "a rough neck with a hand done tatoo") and he had a day off only if the rig was down. We had three sweet traditional years together. He passed away when our son was two years old, leaving us with not much more than a '71 Olds Cutlass Supreme (hard top) and a '72 Olds Delta 88 Royal. Thinking I needed more reliable transportation, I regrettably sold them and put a down payment on a lil' Chevy pick-up.
After a few hard years in Smithville, TX (which included another short and semi-tragic marriage), my son and I moved to Wimberley where I met my beloved Cowboy and where the three of us were almost killed in that pick-up while driving on Purgatory Road off Devil's Backbone.... and now back at home in Austin, the rest of the stories are working their way into my songs. I've done a lot of livin' since then, been down some more rough roads, and I figure I have a few more yet to go. But I'm also blessed beyond my wildest dreams all at the same time. And that's something I don't take for granted.
Hey Amanda! thanks for the compliments! yeah, its really just all about what the judges want. its hard to mix art and competition. Hit me up if you ever come near San Marcos, I'd love to hang out and jam some!
Hi Amanda! I love the tunes. Let me know when the CD's done. I should have my first one out in a week or two. 'Bout time, huh. I hope to get back down that way and see you all one of these days. Tell Cowboy "Hey" and take care.
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