Saturday, September 29th at 8:00pm
Pierce Pettis Live at the 2nd Street Bakery

Recorded Live at the 2nd Street Bakery in Gainesville on Friday, June 15th
By Classic 89 and Nature Coast 90     
      Pierce Pettis, adored by both critics and public alike, is one of this generation's most masterful songwriters. His music is distinguished by his uncanny ability to capture universals in human experience by drawing on the humor and trials in daily life. Pettis' music can simultaneously pull on our hearts and keep us laughing. The beautiful harmonies, inventive yet subtle percussion, strong guitar, and Pierce's rich vocals are a constant throughout his body of work.  .........................      Before releasing his most recent albums (Making Light of It, Everything Matters, State of Grace and his most recent, Great Big World) on Compass Records, Pettis released three critically acclaimed albums on the prestigious Windham Hill/ High Street label. Pierce Pettis has performed in all 48 continental states as well as in Canada and Europe, appeared nine times on American Public Radio's Mountain Stage, been featured on National Public Radio's E-town, Morning Edition and World Cafe ... appeared on VH-1, CBS News, and the Nashville Network.

     During his long career 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.
“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!
  Playlist  
       1. Rise From The Ruins  
       2. Crying Ground  
       3. Farewell  
       4. Legacy  
       5. Talk Memphis  
       6. I've Got A Hope  
       7. To Dance  
       8. Gone To Alabama  
       9. That Kind Of Love  
     10. State of Grace  
     11. Family  
     12. The Black Sheep Boy  
     13. Granddaddy Blew The Whistle  
     14. The Showman's Life  
     15. I Am Nothing - By Don Dunnaway  
     16. Something For The Pain  
     17. Alabama 1959  
     18. Down In The Flood