Amanda Pearcy

Austin, Texas’ Amanda Pearcy is a storyteller, her characters wearing her experience. She pens with a perception of why we do what we do in a way that buries a little of each of us in the story. There’s a hardscrabble grittiness to her that’s irresistible. Her songs, at times delivered with a sensual tender fragility, and sometimes with a raw husky punchiness, speak of hard times, the human spirit, and its will to endure. Many have a retro blues feel to them…Janis Joplin-esque and R&B upbeat tracks cut against soulful and melodic ballads, country, roots rock, and gospel songs, with the deep-felt folk soul of Amanda’s voice grounding the diversity of them all.

With songwriting that’s been likened to that of Lucinda Williams, Jason Isbell, Gillian Welch, and Mary Gauthier, Amanda Pearcy puts flesh on the familiar bones of Southern gothic and makes her songs sound like lived experience, only described by a sharp observer with a store of original images.

Pearcy’s latest release, An Offering, was #1 on the prestigious EuroAmericana Chart’s Oct, Nov, and 2015 Year End Lists. Her 2013 release, Royal Street, was #1 and #2 for three months on that same chart, landing at #7 for their 2013 Year End List.

"Tough, sweet, and hard to shake… some of the best songwriting you're liable to hear this year.” –Texas Music Magazine