PIERCE EDENS
Over the last ten years, Pierce Edens has been drawing on his Appalachian songwriting roots and blending them with the grungy rock and roll sounds that took him in his teenage years. The result is a haunting and fiery mixture that is notoriously hard to pin down. Allmusic.com classifies Edens as both “Folk-Rock” and “psychedelic-grunge,” and No Depression writer Bill Kopp says “[He] could just as easily- and accurately- be tagged with the singer/songwriter label; He’s a gritty troubadour who takes what he needs from each style, blending and bending it to suit the needs of his songs.” Or, as Fred Mills state in Blurt Magazine, “Somewhere up there in the hills of western North Carolina a lot of bodies are buried, and Pierce Edens is the man with the locations. There’s no evidence that a cop, D.A. or judge can bring forth, mind you, but he clearly knows something; you can hear it in his twisted, tortured vocal bray […] a soulful-yet-serrated instrument that conveys far more than even its owner might intend.” Now, in his fifth fully independent album (Stripped Down Gussied Up), Edens has taken his singular voice back home to his studio in Western North Carolina to bury some more bodies. This album witness Edens stripping down the instrumentation to simply the vocals, percussion, and guitar, alongside his long-time band-mate Kevin Reese accompanying with lead guitar, mandolin, and occasional banjo for a handful of genre-bending songs. Stripped Down Gussied Up delivers Edens’ signature sound as it should be heard; intimate and atmospheric, glittery, gritty, and raw.
SARA GREER
Sara is no stranger to Pure Life - working with other teens in the teen program she has continued her singer/songwriter career going on to release her debut EP, "All Who Wonder". Consisting of four pop & folk-inspired original tracks produced by Grammy Award-winning producer Larry Mitchell, the collection of songs showcases Greer's early ability to convey emotion (and validate that of others) through creating and combining interpretive metaphors with haunting melodies and progressions.
Today, Sara continues to perform solo acoustic shows at various local venues across Metro ATL. She also continues to write as well as produce her own music that she plans to release in the near future.
Greer also owns Pulse Grind Audio- with which she dedicates her creative talents to help grow that of others. She works as a recording and mixing engineer out of Hey Hey Studios in Griffin, GA as well as from her home studio.
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