"Wouldn't Change It For the World" - Father's Son

F E A T U R E D R E V I E W S

“Sometimes I have to stop listening to a Pierce Pettis track halfway through because he makes me want to give up on songwriting. Pierce is a master musical storyteller, delivering human truth and heartbreaking vulnerability with every tune. He’s also an unnecessarily virtuosic guitarist with the voice of some beautiful angel who also happens to be your old, familiar friend. All of it completely unfair.”

- Justin Paul, writer/composer "La La Land", "Dear Evan Hansen"

"...all Pettis has to offer is his earnest best, a tender heart, packaged in one three-and-a-half minute song after another."

-Jason Killingsworth, Paste Magazine

"Pierce Pettis bares a gentle soul with a keen eye, a soulful voice, and perfect guitar accompaniment for his beautiful songs - a masterful poet treasure"

-Darrell Scott, songwriter/recording artist

"I have loved Pierce's music for many years now-he has the gift of a true inner compass."

-Eliza Gilkyson, songwriter/recording artist

“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!

"...One of the more vital and critically acclaimed folk stars of recent years."

-Performing Songwriter Magazine

N E W S

late August / September 2025

Happy Labor Day ...

Now get back to work! 😅 I’ll be getting to work myself with a month-long mid-Atlantic tour! First stop, The Listening Booth in Lewes, DE, where I’ll be teaching a Masterclass in BOTH Songwriting AND Alternate Guitar Tunings. Then I’ll be playing a co-bill at The Listening Booth with award-winning new artist, Eli Lev! (https://eli-lev.com/) Finally I’m back with my old friends at Jammin’ Java in Vienna, VA (outside DC)

In September, the tour continues in North Carolina, back at the legendary White Horse in Black Mountain. Next, I’m doing a special concert at a cool new venue in Winston-Salem: Bobby Boy Bakeshop. Then I head up to Virginia for another show at my friends, Lindsay & Bob’s House Concert at the Avinity Clubhouse in Charlottesville. And to cap off the tour, I head over to Kentucky in the beautiful mountain village of Whitesburg, where I’m playing the Bad Branch House Concert series.