Chris Pierce

Video: Chris Pierce “American Silence”

March 5, 2021 Andrew Frolish 1

This song is essential listening. ‘American Silence’ is all about the impassioned vocal and powerful lyrics of Chris Pierce. “Will you rise up when your comfort is in jeopardy?” asks Pierce in the song’s opening line. […]

artwork for Chris Pierce album "American Silence"

Chris Pierce “American Silence”

February 23, 2021 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

Passionate, well-constructed, generously-spirited protest music that can’t be ignored. There’s a quote attributed to Americana/folk musician Todd Snider out there where he says ‘I didn’t write this song to change people’s minds, I wrote it to […]

Chris Pierce “American Silence Is A Crime” – Listen

November 10, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Chris Pierce does that voice and guitar and the truth thing, and does it with style on his new single ‘American Silence is a Crime.’ It’s the folk troubadour tradition of singing the news, and by […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 2

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

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